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Bull, William B. (1997) Discontinuous ephemeral streams: Geomorphology v. 19, p.227-276.

Humphrey, Robert R. (1958) The desert grassland: A history of vegetational change and analyses of causes: Botanical Review, v. 24, p. 193-252.

McFadden, Leslie D., and McAuliffe, Joseph R., Lithologically induced geomorphic responses to Holocene climatic changes in the southern Colorado Plateau, Arizona: A soil-geomorphic and ecologic perspective: Geomorphology v. 19, p. 303-332.

Neilson, Ronald P. (1986) High-resolution climatic analysis and southwest biogeography: Science, v. 232, p.27-34.

Savage, Melissa and Swetnam, Thomas W. (1990) Early 19 th century fire decline following sheep pasturing in a Navajo ponderosa pine forest: Ecology, v. 71, p. 2374-2378.

Schlesinger, William H., Reynolds, James F., Cunningham, Gary L. Huenneke, Laura F., Jarrel, Wesley M., Virginia, ross A., and Whitford, Walter G. (1990) Biological feedbacks of global desertification: Science v. 247, p.1043-1048.

Riebsame, William E. Changnon, Stanley A., and Karl, Thomas R. (1991) Drought and Natural Resource Management, Impacts and Implications of the 1987-89 Drought; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and Oxford, United Kingdom.

Trenberth, Kevin E., Branstator, Grant W., and Arkin, Phillip A. (1988) Origins of the 1988 North American drought: Science v. 242, p.1640-1645.

Trenberth, Kevin E. (1998) Atmospheric moisture residence times and cycling: Implications for rainfall rates and climate change: Climate Change v. 39, p. 667-694.

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