This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of northern Mexico documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife. It should become the standard source document for the conservation status of species and ecosystems in this region, which is of unusual biological interest because of its high biodiversity and highly varied landscape and biological zonation.
This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of northern Mexico documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife. It should become the standard source document for the conservation status of species and ecosystems in this region, which is of unusual biological interest because of its high biodiversity and highly varied landscape and biological zonation.
Jorge Soberón Mainero: Preface
Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos, and Richard S. Felger:
Introduction
PARI I: INTRODUCTION
1: Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca, Laura I. González Guzmán, and
Jean-Luc E. Cartron: Northern Mexico's landscape, Part I: The
physical setting and constraints on modeling biotic evolution
2: Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Laura I. González-Guzmán:
Northern Mexico's landscape, Part II: The biotic setting across
time
3: Scott H. Stoleson, Richard S. Felger, Gerardo Ceballos, Carol
Raish, Michael F. Wilson, and Alberto Búrquez: Recent history of
natural resource use and population growth in northern Mexico
4: Alberto Székely, Luis Octavio Martínez Morales, Mark J.
Spalding, and Dominique Cartron
: Mexico's legal and institutional framework for the conservation
of biodiversity and ecosystems
PART II: PATTERNS OF SPECIES DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF
NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
5: Thomas R. Van Devender, John R. Reeder, Charlotte G. Reeder, and
Ana Lilia Reina G.: Distribution and diversity of grasses of the
Yécora Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental of eastern Sonora,
Mexico
6: W. David Sissom and Brent E. Hendrixson: Scorpion biodiversity
and patterns of endemism in northern Mexico
7: Francisco J. García de León, Delladira Gutiérrez Tirado, Dean A.
Hendrickson, and Héctor Espinosa Pérez: Fishes of the continental
waters of Tamaulipas: diversity and conservation status
8: L. Lee Grismer and Eric Mellink: Historical and ecological
biogeography of the terrestrial herpetofauna of northern Baja
California
9: Richard C. Brusca, Lloyd T. Findley, Phillip A. Hastings, Michel
E. Hendrickx, Jorge Torre Cosio, and Albert M. van der Heiden.:
Macrofaunal diversity in the Gulf of California
10: Thomas R. Van Devender, Karen Krebbs, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Ana
Lilia Reina G., and William A. Calder: Hummingbird communities
along an elevational gradient in the Sierra Madre Occidental of
eastern Sonora, Mexico
11: David J. Hafner and Brett R. Riddle: Mammalian phylogeography
and evolutionary history of northern Mexico's deserts
12: Mark A. Dimmitt, John F. Wiens, and Thomas R. Van Devender:
Extreme succulent plant diversity on Cerro Colorado near San
Ignacio, Baja California Sur
13: Héctor M. Hernández and Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa: Cactus
diversity and endemism in the Chihuahuan Desert Region
14: Jorge Urbán R., Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Mercedes Guerrero-Ruíz,
Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta, and Lloyd T. Findley: Cetacean
diversity and conservation in the Gulf of California
15: Robert C. Whitmore, Richard C. Brusca, José León de la Luz,
Patricia González-Zamorano, Renato Mendoza-Salgado, Edgar S.
Amador-Silva, Gina Holguin, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Philip A.
Hastings, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Richard S. Felger, Jeffrey A.
Seminoff, and Carole C. McIvor: The ecological importance of
mangroves in Baja California Sur: Conservation implications for an
endangered ecosystem
16: Ricardo Rodríguez-Estrella, Ma. Carmen Blázquez, and Juan
Manuel Lobato G.
: Avian communities of arroyos and desert oases in Baja California
Sur: implications for conservation
PART III: NATURAL RESOURCE IMPACTS AND CONSERVATION AT A
POPULATION, SPECIES, AND LANDSCAPE LEVEL
17: Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Richard E. Harness, Robert C. Rogers, and
Patricia Manzano-Fischer: Impact of concrete power poles on raptors
and ravens in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
18: Richard A. Minnich and Ernesto Franco-Vizcaíno: Baja
California's enduring Mediterranean vegetation: early accounts,
human impacts, and conservation status
19: Rodrigo A. Medellín, Carlos Manterola, Manuel Valdéz, David G.
Hewitt, Diana Doan-Crider, and Timothy E. Fulbright: History,
ecology, and conservation of the pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep,
and black bear in Mexico
20: Richard S. Felger, Wallace J. Nichols, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff:
Sea turtles in northwestern Mexico: conservation, ethnobiology, and
desperation
21: Gerardo Ceballos, Rurik List, Jesús Pacheco, Patricia
Manzano-Fischer, Georgina Santos, and Mario Royo: Prairie dogs,
cattle, and crops: diversity and conservation of the
grassland-shrubland habitat mosaic in northwestern Chihuahua,
Mexico
22: Martha J. Desmond, Kendal E. Young, Bruce C. Thompson, Raul
Valdez, and Alberto Lafón Terrazas: Habitat associations and
conservation of grassland birds in the Chihuahuan Desert Region:
two case studies in Chihuahua, Mexico
23: Enriqueta Velarde, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Hugh Drummond, Daniel
W. Anderson, Fanny Rebón Gallardo, Eduardo Palacios, and Cristina
Rodríguez: Nesting seabirds of the Gulf of California's offshore
islands: diversity, ecology, and conservation
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