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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Ecol Monogr. 2021 Feb 19;91(3):1–19. doi: 10.1002/ecm.1450

Table 1.

Experimental sites.

Region Site Code1 Site Name Site Elevation (m) Average Precipitation (mm)2

Urban DBG Desert Botanical Garden 396 78
Urban MVP Mountain View Park (North Mountain) 397 71
Urban PWP Piestewa Peak (Phoenix Mountain Preserve) 456 76
Urban SME South Mountain Park, East 372 62
Urban SMW South Mountain Park, West 458 59
Non-urban (East) LDP Lost Dutchman State Park 620 132
Non-urban (East) MCN McDowell Mountain Regional Park, North 476 115
Non-urban (East) MCS McDowell Mountain Regional Park, South 539 102
Non-urban (East) SRR Salt River Recreation Area 434 120
Non-urban (East) UMP Usery Mountain Regional Park 592 95
Non-urban (West) EME Estrella Mountain Regional Park, East 331 55
Non-urban (West) EMW Estrella Mountain Regional Park, West 382 53
Non-urban (West) SNE Sonoran Desert National Monument, East 492 52
Non-urban (West) SNW Sonoran Desert National Monument, West 375 55
Non-urban (West) WTM White Tank Mountain Regional Park 454 73
1

For additional site characteristics, see Hall et al. (2011) and Cook et al. (2018).

2

Mean winter growing season precipitation (October - March) for the period 2006 to 2018