Research Catalog

Title

Standing between life and extinction : ethics and ecology of conserving aquatic species in North American deserts / edited by David L. Propst, Jack E. Williams, Kevin R. Bestgen, and Christopher W. Hoagstrom ; with a foreword by Senator Tom Udall.

Publication

• Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bestgen, Kevin R.,
• Hoagstrom, Christopher W. (Christopher William),
• Propst, David L.,
• Udall, Tom,
• Williams, Jack Edward,

Description

xv, 448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm

Summary

"The desert Southwest may seem an unlikely habitat for fish, but roughly 40 species are native to the area, having evolved in special ways to adapt to dry conditions. In this volume of essays, conservationists dedicated to these creatures document the history of their work, the techniques and philosophies that inform it, and the challenges and opportunities that face its future. The volume was conceived and written as the successor to Battle Against Extinction (Arizona, 1991), which the editors call "a conservation classic and the bible for those struggling to save desert fishes and their habitats.""--

Uniform Title

Battle against extinction.

Subject

• Aquatic ecology > Southwest, New
• Aquatic ecology
• Desert biology > Southwest, New
• Desert biology
• Fishes > Conservation > Southwest, New
• Fishes > Conservation
• New Southwest
• Rare fishes > Southwest, New
• Rare fishes
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Section 1. Engaging the battle. The battle to conserve aquatic species in lands of water scarcity continues / Jack E. Williams, David L. Propst -- The Protagonists; Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Robert Rush Miller / Robert J. Edwards; W. L. Minckley / Chuck O. Minckley; Salvador Contreras-Balderas / María de Lourdes Lozano-Vilano, Armando Jesús Contreras-Balderas; James E. Deacon / Cindy Deacon Williams; Clark Hubbs / Gary P. Garrett; Robert J. Behnke / Kevin R. Bestgen, Kurt D. Fausch; Edwin P. (Phil) Pister / Kathryn Boyer -- Biodiversity, biogeography, and conservation of North American desert fishes / Christopher W. Hoagstrom, Derek D. Houston, Norman Mercado-Silva -- Living with aliens : nonnative fishes in the American Southwest / Peter B. Moyle -- Current conservation status of some freshwater species and their habitats in México / María de Lourdes Lozano-Vilano, Armando J. Contreras-Balderas, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, María Elena García-Ramírez -- Ghosts of our making : extinct aquatic species of the North American Desert Region / Jack E. Williams, Donald W. Sada -- Section 2. Racing to collapse. Running on empty : Southwestern water supplies and climate change / Brad Udall -- Mining hidden waters : groundwater depletion, aquatic habitat degradation, and loss of fish diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion of Texas / Gary P. Garrett, Megan G. Bean, Robert J. Edwards, Dean A. Hendrickson -- Southwestern fish and aquatic systems : the climate challenge / Jonathan T. Overpeck, Scott A. Bonar -- Novel drought regimes restructure aquatic invertebrate communities in arid-land streams / Kate S. Boersma, David A. Lytle -- The exotic dilemma : lessons learned from efforts to recover native Colorado River Basin fishes / Brandon Albrecht, Ron Kegerries, Ron Rogers, Paul Holden -- Section 3. Improving the odds. Applying Endangered Species Act protections to desert fishes : assessment and opportunities / Matthew E. Andersen, James E. Brooks -- The value of specimen collections for conserving biodiversity / Adam E. Cohen, Dean A. Hendrickson, Gary P. Garrett -- Conservation genetics of desert fishes in the Genomics Age / Thomas F. Turner, Thomas E. Dowling, Trevor J. Krabbenhoft, Megan J. Osborne, Tyler J. Pilger -- Long-term monitoring of a desert fish asssemblage in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona / Peter N. Reinthal, Heidi Blasius, Mark Haberstich -- Human impacts on the hydrology, geomorphology, and restoration potential of Southwestern rivers / Mark C. Stone, Ryan R. Morrison -- Conservation and ecological rehabilitation of North American Desert spring ecosystems / Donald W. Sada, Lawrence E. Stevens
• Section 4. Searching for recovery. Oases : finding hidden biodiversity gems in the Southern Sonoran Desert / Michael T. Bogan, Carlos Alonso Ballesteros-Córdova, Scott E. K. Bennett, Michael H. Darin, Lloyd T. Findley, Alejandro Varela-Romero -- Recent discoveries and conservation of catfishes, Genus Ictalurus, in México / Alejandro Varela-Romero, Carlos Alonso Ballesteros-Córdova, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Sergio Sánchez-Gonzalez, James E. Brooks -- Ecology, politics, and conservation of Gila trout / David L. Propst, Thomas F. Turner, Jerry A. Monzingo, James E. Brooks, Dustin J. Myers -- Large-river fish conservation in the Colorado River Basin : progress and challenges with Razorback sucker / Kevin R. Bestgen, Thomas E. Dowling, Brandon Albrecht, Koreen A. Zelasko -- Assisting recovery : intensive interventions to conserve native fishes of desert springs and wetlands / Sean C. Lema, Jennifer M. Gumm, Olin G. Feuerbacher, Michael R. Schwemm -- Restoration of aquatic habitats and native fishes in the desert : some successes in western North America / Anthony A. Echelle, Alice F. Echelle -- Section 5. Exploring our future. The Devils Hole pupfish : science in a time of crises / Kevin P. Wilson, Mark B. Hausner, Kevin C. Brown -- Politics, imagination, ideology, and the realms of our possible futures / Christopher Norment -- Searching for common ground between life and extinction / Christopher W. Hoagstrom, Kevin R. Bestgen, David L. Propst, and Jack E. Williams.

ISBN

• 9780226694337
• 022669433X
• 9780226694474
• 022669447X
• 9780226694504 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019052169
• 99987026718

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries