The Western North American Naturalist (formerly Great Basin Naturalist) publishes peer-reviewed experimental and descriptive research pertaining to the biological natural history of western North America.
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Current Issue: Volume 85, Number 4 (2025)
Articles
Taxonomic diversity of hummingbirds and the floral resources they exploit in the temperate forests of west central Mexico
Elena Sofía Brancaccio-Pérez, Ana Luisa Santiago-Pérez, Sarahy Contreras-Martínez, Oscar Gilberto Cárdenas-Hernández, and Verónica Carolina Rosas-Espinoza
Movement and habitat selection of Baird's pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps) in a suburban landscape
McKaughly S. Wing, Justin D. Hoffman, Sarah J. Baker, and Eddie K. Lyons
Spatial and temporal variation in Palouse Prairie bee communities
Anna Hawse, Terry Griswold, and Stephen P. Cook
A century of shifting disturbance regimes and persistence of an aridland native fish assemblage
David L. Propst, Keith B. Gido, and Thomas F. Turner
Preliminary checklist of Nebraska caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)
David C. Houghton and Christina A. Peterson
Pleistocene porcupine (Erethizontidae) records in arid southwestern North America and comparisons with the modern distribution of Erethizon dorsatum in southern California and Arizona
Jeffrey E. Lovich and George T. Jefferson
Pictorial life history and ecological aspects of Psychoronia costalis (Banks, 1901) (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) from the Colorado Front Range, USA
Scott J. Herrmann, Joan M. Herrmann, Lynn M. Herrmann-Hoesing, Susan B. Herrmann-Murron, and Catherine M. Herrmann
Notes
Evaluating the use of artificial structures in mesocosm mock-stockings on the survival of predator recognition–conditioned Bonytail
Hudman S. Evans Jr., Devon C. Oliver, and Ryan D. Mann
Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) predation on Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) and insects in northern Oklahoma
Dawson V. Kosmicki, Carter Kruse, and Keith Geluso
Extended sperm storage duration in female Townsend's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii)
Charles J. Randel III, Ashley M. Long, Jane M. Kunberger, and Michael L. Morrison