Verity L. Mathis
Florida Museum of Natural History
12 Papers
46 Citations
Verity L. Mathis is an academic researcher from Florida Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Subspecies. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of Verity L. Mathis include New Mexico State University & Louisiana State University.
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Papers
Drought Leads to Collapse of Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Populations Reintroduced to the Chihuahuan Desert
TL;DR: In this paper, a conservation strategy developed to restore populations of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) suggested reintroducing animals into the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of the southwestern United States.
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Redescription of the pocket gopher Thomomys atrovarius from the Pacific coast of mainland Mexico
TL;DR: Thomomys atrovarius is redescribed to include the smooth-toothed pocket gophers that inhabit dry, thornscrub vegetation along the Pacific versant of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico from northern Sinaloa into western Durango, northwestern Jalisco, and western Nayarit.
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Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?
Roland Kays,Monica Lasky,Maximilian L. Allen,Robert C. Dowler,Melissa T. R. Hawkins,Andrew G. Hope,Brooks A. Kohli,Verity L. Mathis,Bryan S. McLean,Link E. Olson,Cody W. Thompson,Daniel H. Thornton,Jane Widness,Michael V. Cove +13 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors quantify the extent to which 335 terrestrial nonvolant North American mammals can be identified in typical photographs, with and without considering species range maps, and evaluate all pairwise comparisons of species and judged, based on professional opinion, whether they are visually distinguishable in typical pictures from camera traps or the iNaturalist crowdsourced platform on a 4-point scale: (1) always, (2) usually, (3) rarely, or (4) never).
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Evolution and phylogeography of the Thomomys umbrinus species complex (Rodentia: Geomyidae)
TL;DR: The southern pocket gopher, Thomomys umbrinus, currently contains 17 subspecies distributed from southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico southward into the Trans-Mexico Volcanic Belt (TMVB) of central Mexico as mentioned in this paper.
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Thomomys nayarensis, a new species of pocket gopher from the Sierra del Nayar, Nayarit, Mexico
TL;DR: In this study, multilocus genetic analyses of 3 mitochondrial and 5 nuclear genes reveal a previously unrecognized 3rd species apparently restricted to the Sierra del Nayar of northeastern Nayarit, Mexico.
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