There is a close correlation of pallor of mice and the xeric Rio Negro Valley, and the darkness (melanistic color) of mice and the mesic mountains and valleys to the north.
The Rock Wren may be considered characteristic of xeric scrub in Kansas, and it is not found to the east in the absence of such scrub.
This is less than one per cent of the North American avifauna, two per cent of the Kansan avifauna, and ten per cent of the birds of xeric scrub habitats in North America.
This is a local resident in southern Kansas in xeric scrub or open edge habitats.
The Scaled Quail and Roadrunner tend to drop out as the xeric "desert scrub" conditions of the southwest drop out in Kansas.
These are woodland, grassland, limnic, and xeric scrub plant formations.
In somewhat stunted form, and with partial replacement of its species by those of more xeric habit, it extended up onto hillsides sloping north, east or west, and onto the adjacent hilltop edges.
On south facing slopes, especially, the woodland is noticeably different from that in other situations, and of more xeric aspect.
Water requirements of certain rodents from xeric and mesic habitats.
Lindeborg also found that the subspecies of Peromyscus that consumed the least water, and that were best able to survive a reduced water ration, were those from the more xeric climatic areas.
Both species live underxeric or near-xeric conditions, for the climate of Mesa Verde is semi-arid.
Hyla staufferi is an inhabitant of subhumid and xeric areas.
It is possible that elaeochroa entered Guanacaste and moved to the Golfo Dulce region when the intervening area was lessxeric than now (Duellman, 1966b).
In fallen leaves and decaying wood in xeric and mesic hammock habitats (Friauf, 1953).
Infrequent in the tall shrub stratum of the xeric hammock habitat (Friauf, 1953).
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