There is a huge body of literature concerning various aspects of the Chihuahuan Desert. Much of it is either in obscure publications or specialized, narrowly focused, technical literature. Some of the literature in these categories can be located through the Links page, where links to selected outside web sites are available.
References appearing in this Bibliography are primarily of two types: those of considerable importance for a general understanding of the Chihuahuan Desert but, for one reason or another, not cited and those cited within the Chihuahuan Desert web pages or elsewhere in the Museum web pages. The latter appear in those pages as links, and clicking on the author's name will bring you to the citation in the Bibliography (use the "Back" button of your browser to return to the citation page). Currently, the bibliography is strongly biased toward works focused on the prehistory of the area.
Ackerman, E. A. 1941. The Köppen classification of climates in North America. Geographical Review 31:105-111.
Anderson, S. 1972. Mammals of Chihuahua. Taxonomy and Distribution. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48, Article 2:149-410.
Applegarth, J. S. 1979. Environmental implications of herpetofaunal remains from archeological sites west of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Pp. 159-167, in Biological investigations in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park (H. H. Genoways and R. J. Baker, eds.), Natl. Park Serv. Proc. Trans. Ser. 4:1-442.
Ashbaugh, K. M., and A. L. Metcalf. 1986. Fossil molluscan faunas from four spring-related deposits in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico and westernmost Texas. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Circular 200:1-25.
Ayer, M. Y. 1936. The archaeological and faunal material from Williams Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 88:599-618 + 1 pl.
Baker, J. K. 1963. Fossilization of bat skeletons in the Carlsbad Caverns. National Speleological Society, Bulletin 25(part 1):37-44.
Bartlema, L. L. L. 2001. The Holocene fauna of Big Manhole Cave and its paleoclimatic implications. M.S. Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 101 pp.
Bissonette, J. A. 1999. Collared peccary / Pecari tajacu. Pp. 325-326, in D. E. Wilson and S. Ruff, Eds. 1999. The Smithsonian book of North American mammals. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 750 pp.
Black, D. M. 1953. Fossil deposits under the entrance of Carlsbad Caverns. Science 118:308-309.
Brattstrom, B. H. 1964. Amphibians and reptiles from cave deposits in south-central New Mexico. Bull. So. California Acad. Sci., 63:93-103.
Bryan, W. A. 1929. The recent bone-cavern find at Bishop's Cap, New Mexico. Science, 70:39-41.
Conkling, R. P. 1932. Conkling Cavern: The discoveries in the bone cave at Bishops Cap, New Mexico. West Texas Hist. Sci. Soc. Bull., 44:39-41.
de Martonne, E. 1927. Regions of interior basin drainage. Geographical Review 17:397-414.
Chrisman, D., R. S. MacNeish, J. Mavalwala, and H. Savage. 1996. Late Pleistocene human friction skin prints from Pendejo Cave, New Mexico. American Antiquity 61 (2):357-376.
Cosgrove, C. B. 1947. Caves of the Upper Gila and Hueco areas in New Mexico and Texas. Pap. Peabody Mus. Amer. Archaeol. Ethnol., Harvard Univ., 24:1-182.
Dalquest, W. W., and F. B. Stangl, Jr. 1984. Late Pleistocene and early Recent mammals from Fowlkes Cave, southern Culberson County, Texas. Pp. 432-455, in Contributions in Quaternary vertebrate paleontology: a volume in memorial to John E. Guilday (H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson, eds.). Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., Spec. Publ., 8:1-538.
Dalquest, W. W., and F. B. Stangl, Jr. 1986. Post-Pleistocene mammals of the Apache Mountains, Culberson County, Texas, with comments on zoogeograpy of the Trans-Pecos front range. Occas. Pap., The Museum, Texas Tech. Univ., 104:1-35. 5326
Davis, L. 1969. Bishop Cap Cave. Trans. 5th Regional Archeol. Symp. southeastern New Mexico and western Texas. El Llano Archaeological Society, Portales.
Degenhardt, W. G., C. W. Painter, and A. H. Price. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, xix + 431 pp.
DeHon, R. A. 1965. Maare of La Mesa. New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook 16:204-209.
Dixon, J. R. 1987. Amphibians and reptiles of Texas. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 434 pp.
Dragoo, J. W., J. R. Choate, T. L. Yates, and T. P. O'Farrell. 1990. Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships among North American arid-land foxes. Journal of Mammalogy 71:318-332.
Eames, A. J. 1930. Report on ground sloth coprolite from Dona Ana County, New Mexico. American Journal of Science 120:353-356.
Ederhoff, L. T. 1971. The mammals of El Paso County, Texas, with notes on vegetation. B.S. Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso. 130 pp.
Elias, S. A. 1987. Paleoenvironmental significance of late Quaternary insect fossils from packrat middens in south-central New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 32:383-390.
Elias, S. A., and T. R. Van Devender. 1990. Fossil insect evidence for Late Quaternary climatic change in the Big Bend Region, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas. Quaternary Research 34:249-261.
Findley, J. S. 1987. The Natural History of New Mexican mammals. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 164 pp.
Findley, J. S., A. H. Harris, D. E. Wilson, and C. Jones. 1975. Mammals of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 360 pp.
Flores Mata, G., et al. 1971. Mapa y descripcion de los tipos de vegetacion de la Republica Mexicana. Secretaria de Recursos Hidraulicos, 59 pp + 1 map, scale 1:2 mil. México.
Frost, D. R., and R. M. Timm. 1992. Phylogeny of plecotine bats (Chiroptera: "Vespertilionidae"): Summary of the evidence and proposal of a logically consistent taxonomy. American Museum Novitates 3034:1-16.
Geluso, K. N., and K. Geluso. 2004. Mammals of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 17:i-vi + 1-180.
Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2 volumes, 1181 + 90 pp.
Hargrave, L. L., and S. D. Emslie. 1980. Passenger pigeon bones from archaeological sites in New Mexico. Contributions to Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 330:257-260.
Harris, A. H. 1970. The Dry Cave mammalian fauna and late pluvial conditions in southeastern New Mexico. Texas J. Sci., 22:3-27.
Harris, A. H. 1977. Wisconsin age environments in the northern Chihuahuan Desert: Evidence from the higher vertebrates. Pp. 23-52, in, Transactions of the symposium on the biological resources of the Chihuahuan Desert region, United States and Mexico (R. H. Wauer and D. H. Riskind, eds.), Natl. Park Serv. Trans. Proc. Ser., 3:1-658.
Harris, A. H. 1980. The paleoecology of Dry Cave, New Mexico. Natl. Geographic Society Research Report, 12:331-338.
Harris, A. H. 1984a. Late Pleistocene and early Holocene life zones in New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 6:15. ABSTRACT.
Harris, A. H. 1984b. Neotoma in the late Pleistocene of New Mexico and Chihuahua. Pp. 164-178, in Contributions in Quaternary vertebrate paleontology: a volume in memorial to John E. Guilday (H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson, eds.). Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., Spec. Publ., 8:1-538.
Harris, A. H. 1984c. Two new species of late Pleistocene woodrats (Cricetidae: Neotoma) from New Mexico. J. Mamm., 65:560-566.
Harris, A. H. 1984d. Late Wisconsin biotic zones in the interior of western United States and adjacent regions. Curr. Res. Pleist., 1:57.
Harris, A. H. 1985a. Late Pleistocene vertebrate paleoecology of the West. Univ. Texas Press, Austin, 293 pp.
Harris, A. H. 1985b. Preliminary report on the vertebrate fauna of U-Bar Cave, Hidalgo County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology, 7:74-77, 84.
Harris, A. H. 1987. Reconstruction of Mid-Wisconsin environments in southern New Mexico. Natl. Geogr. Res., 3:142-151.
Harris, A. H. 1988. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Microtus (Pitymys) (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in New Mexico. J. Vert. Paleont., 8:307-313.
Harris, A. H. 1989. The New Mexican late Wisconsin—east versus west. National Geographic Research, 5:205-217.
Harris, A. H. 1990a. Fossil evidence bearing on Southwestern mammalian biogeography. Journal of Mammalogy 71:219-229.
Harris, A. H. 1990b. Taxonomic status of the Pleistocene ringtail Bassariscus sonoitensis (Carnivora). Southwestern Naturalist 35(3):343-346.
Harris, A. H. 1991. Preliminary report on the fauna of Pendejo Cave, Otero County, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 8:92-93.
Harris, A. H. 1993a. Wisconsinan pre-pleniglacial biotic change in southeastern New Mexico. Quaternary Research 40:127-133.
Harris, A. H. 1993b. A Late-Pleistocene occurrence of ermine (Mustela erminea) in southeastern New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 38:279-280.
Harris, A. H. 1993c. Quaternary vertebrates of New Mexico. Pp. 179-197, in Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 2:i-vii, 1-338.
Harris, A. H. 1997. Similarity coefficients and relationships of Wisconsin-age Faunas, New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas. Pp. 143-154, in Life among the muses: Papers in honor of James S. Findley (T. L. Yates, W. L. Gannon, and D. E. Wilson, eds.), Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Harris, A. H., and L. N. Carraway. 1993. Sorex preblei from the Late Pleistocene of New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 38:56-58.
Harris, A. H., and C. R. Crews. 1983. Conkling"s roadrunner—a subspecies of the California roadrunner? Southwestern Naturalist 28:407-412.
Harris, A. H., and P. Mundel. 1974. Size reduction in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) at the close of the Pleistocene. J. Mamm., 55:678-680.
Harris, A. H., and L. S. W. Porter. 1980. Late Pleistocene horses of Dry Cave, Eddy County, New Mexico. J. Mamm., 61:46-65.
Hawley, J. W. 1975. Quaternary history of Dona Ana County Region, south-central New Mexico. New Mexico Geolological Society, Guidebook 26:139-150.
Hawley, J. W., F. E. Kottlowski, W. S. Strain, W. R. Seager, W. E. King, and D. V. LeMone. 1969. The Santa Fe Group in the south-central New Mexico border region. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Circular 104:52-76.
Henrickson, J., and J. Garcia. 1976. Maps of the Chihuahuan Desert Region. California State University, Los Angeles. 49 pp.
Henrickson, J., and R. M. Straw. 1976. A gazetteer of the Chihuahuan Desert Region. California State University, Los Angeles. 273 pp.
Hill, C. A., and D. D. Gillette. 1987. A uranium series date for the Shasta ground sloth, Nothrotheriops shastensis, from Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy 68(3):718-719.
Holman, J. A. 1970. A Pleistocene herpetofauna from Eddy County, New Mexico. Texas J. Sci., 22:29-39.
Howard, E. B. 1932. Caves along the slopes of the Guadalupe Mountains. Texas Archeol. Paleont. Soc., 4:7-20.
Howard, H. 1931a. A new species of road-runner from Quaternary cave deposits in New Mexico. Condor, 33:206-209.
Howard, H. 1931b. Cryptoglaux funerea in New Mexico. Condor, 33:216.
Howard, H. 1962. Bird remains from a prehistoric cave deposit in Grant County, New Mexico. Condor, 64:241-242.
Howard, H. 1971. Quaternary avian remains from Dark Canyon Cave, New Mexico. Condor, 73:237-240.
Howard, H., and A. H. Miller. 1933. Bird remains from cave deposits in New Mexico. Condor 35:15-18.
Hubbard, J. P. 1978. Revised check-list of the birds of New Mexico. New Mexico Ornithological Society, Publication 6:1-110.
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