About the Book
This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern 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.
Table of Contents:
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
