Research Catalog

Title

Biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation in northern Mexico / [edited by] Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos, and Richard Stephen Felger.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Cartron, Jean-Luc E.
• Ceballos, Gerardo.
• Felger, Richard Stephen.

Description

xvi, 496 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subject

• Biodiversity > Mexico, North
• Ecology > Mexico, North

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation : prospects for Northern Mexico / Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos and Richard S. Felger -- 1. Northern Mexico's landscape, part I : the physical setting and constraints on modeling biotic evolution / Ismael Ferrusquia-Villafranca, Laura I. Gonzalez Guzman and Jean-Luc E. Cartron -- 2. Northern Mexico's landscape, part II : the biotic setting across time / Ismael Ferrusquia-Villafranca and Laura I. Gonzalez Guzman -- 3. Recent history of natural resource use and population growth in Northern Mexico / Scott H. Stoleson, Richard S. Felger, Gerardo Ceballos, Carol Raish, Michael F. Wilson and Alberto Burquez -- 4. Mexico's legal and institutional framework for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems / Alberto Szekely, Luis Octavio Martinez Morales, Mark J. Spalding and Dominique Cartron -- 5. Distribution and diversity of grasses in the Yecora region of the Sierra Madre occidental of Eastern Sonora, Mexico / Thomas R. Van Devender, John R. Reeder, Charlotte G. Reeder and Ana Lilia Reina G. -- 6. Scorpion biodiversity and patterns of endemism in Northern Mexico / W. David Sissom and Brent E. Hendrixson -- 7. Fishes of the continental waters of Tamaulipas : diversity and conservation status / Francisco J. Garcia de Leon, Delladira Gutierrez Tirado, Dean A. Hendrickson and Hector Espinosa Perez -- 8. Historical and ecological biogeography of the terrestrial herpetofauna of Northern Baja California / L. Lee Grismer and Eric Mellink -- 9. Macrofaunal diversity in the Gulf of California / Richard C. Brusca, Lloyd T. Findley, Phillip A. Hastings, Michel E. Hendrickx, Jorge Torre Cosio and Albert M. van der Heiden -- 10. Hummingbird communities along an elevational gradient in the Sierra Madre occidental of Eastern Sonora, Mexico / Thomas R. Van Devender, Karen Krebbs, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Ana Lilia Reina G. and William A. Calder -- 11. Mammalian phylogeography and evolutionary history of Northern Mexico's deserts / David J. Hafner and Brett R. Riddle -- 12. Extreme succulent plant diversity on Cerro Colorado near San Ignacio, Baja California Sur / Mark A. Dimmitt, John F. Wiens and Thomas R. Van Devender -- 13. Cactus diversity and endemism in the Chihuahuan desert region / Hector M. Hernandez and Carlos Gomez-Hinostrosa -- 14. Cetacean diversity and conservation in the Gulf of California / Jorge Urban R., Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Mercedes Guerrero-Ruiz, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta and Lloyd T. Findley -- 15. The ecological importance of mangroves in Baja California Sur : conservation implications for an endangered ecosystem / Robert C. Whitmore, Richard C. Brusca, Jose Luis Leon de la Luz, Patricia Gonzalez-Zamorano, Renato Mendoza-Salgado, Edgar S. Amador-Silva, Gina Holguin, Felipe Galvan-Magana, Philip A. Hastings, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Richard S. Felger, Jeffrey A. Seminoff and Carole C. McIvor -- 16. Avian communities of Arroyos and desert oases in Baja California Sur : implications for conservation / Ricardo Rodriguez-Estrella, Ma. Carmen Blazquez and Juan Manuel Lobato G. -- 17. Impact of concrete power poles on raptors and ravens in Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico / Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Richard E. Harness, Robert C. Rogers and Patricia Manzano-Fischer -- 18. Baja California's enduring Mediterranean vegetation : early accounts, human impacts, and conservation status / Richard A. Minnich, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino -- 19. History, ecology, and conservation of the pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, and black bear in Mexico / Rodrigo A. Medellin, Carlos Manterola, Manuel Valdez, David G. Hewitt, Diana Doan-Crider and Timothy E. Fulbright -- 20. Sea turtles in Northwestern Mexico : conservation, ethnobiology, and desperation / Richard S. Felger, Wallace J. Nichols and Jeffrey A. Seminoff -- 21. Prairie dogs, cattle, and crops : diversity and conservation of the grassland-shrubland habitat mosaic in Northwestern Chihuahua / Gerardo Ceballos, Rurik List, Jesus Pacheco, Patricia Manzano-Fischer, Georgina Santos and Mario Royo -- 22. Habitat associations and conservation of grassland birds in the Chihuahuan desert region : two case studies in Chihuahua / Martha J. Desmond, Kendal E. Young, Bruce C. Thompson, Raul Valdez and Alberto Lafon Terrazas -- 23. Nesting seabirds of the Gulf of California's offshore islands : diversity, ecology, and conservation / Enriqueta Velarde, Jean-Luc Cartron, Hugh Drummond, Daniel W. Anderson, Fanny Rebon Gallardo, Eduardo Palacios and Cristina Rodriguez.

ISBN

0195156722 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004012002

OCLC

• 62087944
• ocm62087944
• SCSB-5205749

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Columbia University Libraries