Safeguarding the uniqueness of the Colorado Plateau : an ecoregional assessment of biocultural diversity /
Joe, Tony.
Northern Arizona University.Center for Sustainable Environments.
Terralingua (Organization)
Grand Canyon Wildlands Council.
[Flagstaff, Ariz.] : Center for Sustainable Environments : Grand Canyon Wildlands Council ; Wahington : Terralingua,
c2002.
"With support from The Ford Foundation, Agnese Haury, The Town Creek Foundation."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97).
Foreword / Stephen Trimble -- Preface / Luisa Maffi -- The Colorado Plateau: an orientation and invocation / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Assessing levels of biocultural diversity on the Colorado Plateau in relation to other regions / Gary Paul Nabhan, Patrick Pynes, and Tony Joe -- Eliciting perceptions of biocultural diversity on the Colorado Plateau: a methodology for defining threats and response options / Thomas D. Sisk -- Geographic heterogeneity: climate, stratigraphy, and soils of the Colorado Plateau / Lawrence E. Stevens and Gary Paul Nabhan -- Hydrological diversity: water's role in shaping natural and cultural diversity on the Colorado Plateau / Lawrence E. Stevens and Gary Paul Nabhan -- Biodiversity: plant and animal endemism, biotic associations, and unique habitat mosaics in living landscapes / Lawrence E. Stevens and Gary Paul Nabhan -- Ethnolinguistic diversity: restoring the native languages to the Colorado Plateau / Patrick Pynes and Gary Paul Nabhan -- Agricultural diversity: crop genetic resources, agrohabitats, and the farmland-wildland mosaic on the Colorado Plateau / Gary Paul Nabhan and Patrick Pynes -- Diversifying conservation strategies: innovative means of protecting traditional cultural places and their wildlands settings / Tony Joe, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Patrick Pynes -- Living as if biocultural diversity matters: conservation opportunities and recommended actions / Gary Paul Nabhan and David Seibert -- App. 1. Checklist of native mammals of the Colorado Plateau -- App. 2. Endemic plants of the Colorado Plateau -- Literature cited.
Animal diversity conservation
Ecolinguistics
Ecological assessment (Biology)
Plant diversity