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*24510$aPackrat middens :$bthe last 40,000 years of biotic change /$cedited by Julio L. Betancourt, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Paul S. Martin.
*250  $aFirst paperback edition 2016
*264 1$aTucson, Arizona :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$c2016
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*300  $aviii, 467 pages$billustrations, maps$c26 cm
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*504  $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world.



This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.

• Methods
• Ecology of Living Packratsp. 14
• Woodrat Ecology and Behavior and the Interpretation of Paleomiddensp. 28
• Do Woodrat Middens Accurately Represent the Animals' Environments and Diets? The Woodhouse Mesa Studyp. 43
• Packrat Middens: Their Composition and Methods of Analysisp. 59
• The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Radiocarbon Ages from Packrat Middensp. 85
• Regional Summaries
• Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of the Chihuahuan Desert, United States and Mexicop. 104
• Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of the Sonoran Desert, United States and Mexicop. 134
• Vegetational and Climatic Development of the Mojave Desert: The Last Glacial Maximum to the Presentp. 166
• Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate in the Great Basinp. 200
• Late Quaternary Vegetation Gradients Through the Grand Canyonp. 240
• Late Quaternary Biogeography of the Colorado Plateaup. 259
• Special Studies
• Comparison of Late Holocene Environments from Woodrat Middens and Pollen: Diamond Craters, Oregonp. 294
• The Ecology and Palcoecology of Grasses in Selected Sonoran Desert Plant Communitiesp. 326
• Late Quaternary Mammals from the Chihuahuan Desert: Paleoecology and Latitudinal Gradientsp. 350
• Arthropod History of the Puerto Blanco Mountains, Organ Pipe National Monument, Southwestern Arizonap. 363
• Deuterium Variations in Plant Cellulose from Fossil Packrat Middensp. 380
• Middens Abroad
• Hyrax (Procaviidae)and Dassie Rat (Petromuridae) Middens in Paleoenvironmental Studies in Africap. 398
• Fossil Hyrax Middens from the Middle East: A Record of Paleovegetation and Human Disturbancep. 408
• Analysis of Stick-Nest Rat (Leporillus: Muridae) Middens from Central Australiap. 428
• Synthesis and Prospectusp. 435
• Indexp. 449
• List of Contributorsp. 469