The desert islands of Mexico's Sea of Cortez
By: Stewart Aitchison.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780816527748
Subjects: Natural history -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of, Region; Environmental degradation -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of, Region; Desert ecology -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of, Region; Island ecology -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of, Region; California, Gulf of, Region (Mexico) -- Environmental conditions; Baja California Region (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Environmental conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The big split : the geologic origin of the gulf and its islands; title: Lessons from Anak Krakatoa : an introduction to island biogeography; title: Mexico's Galápagos : island life; title: Flying card tables and breaching buses : life around the islands; title: Vanishing vaquitas and burning deserts : threatened ecosystems.