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 84, Number 3 (2024) — Issue in Progress
Articles
Review of the parasitoid wasp genus Cratichneumon Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Arizona's Sky Islands, with descriptions of eleven new species
Brandon Claridge, Ryan Helcoski, David B. Wahl, and James Pitts
Genetic evidence for the presence of Geomys jugossicularis in the Oklahoma panhandle
Cristina N. Coffman and Michelle L. Haynie
Mate choice and hybridization in the Western Grebe and Clark’s Grebe: tests of the scarcity of mates and sexual selection hypotheses
Floyd E. Hayes, Bryan J. McIntosh, Dylan G. Turner, and Douglas E. Weidemann
Genetic variation and population structure among western hibernacula of Townsend’s big-eared bats, Corynorhinus townsendii townsendii
Natalie M. Hamilton, Katelyn Sanchez, Megan L. Moran, Richard E. Sherwin, Jessica E. Light, and Michael L. Morrison
Northern breeding range expansion of two Sula species at Sutil Island, California, USA
Jim A. Howard, Amelia J. DuVall, David M. Pereksta, David M. Mazurkiewicz, Adam J. Searcy, Phillip J. Capitolo, and Tamara M. Russell
Ecological implications of the detection of freshwater bryozoan Cristatella mucedo (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata) and myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae (Cnidaria: Malacosporea) in southwest Montana
Paul Helfrich, Katherine Larson, and Amy J. Kuenzi
Note
Novel records of rodent species in the Sierra de Manantlán, Jalisco, México: phylogenetic insights and taxonomic implications
Daryl D. Cruz, Daily Martínez-Borrego, Francisco X. González-Cózatl, María Magdalena Ramíriz-Martínez, and Elizabeth Arellano