The Gulf of California
Subtitle: biodiversity and conservation
By: Richard C. Brusca, editor.
Contributors: Brusca, Richard C.
Publisher: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press; University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Subjects: Biodiversity -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of; Wildlife conservation -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of; Natural history -- Mexico -- California, Gulf of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origin, age, and geological evolution of the Gulf of California / Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez and Ana Luisa Carreño; title: Physical, chemical, and biological oceanography of the Gulf of California / Saúl Alvarez-Borrego; title: Reefs that rock and roll : biology and conservation of rhodolith beds in the Gulf of California / Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez, Diana I. Steller, Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango, and Michael S. Foster; title: Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation in the Gulf of California / Richard C. Brusca and Michel E. Hendrickx; title: Fishes of the Gulf of California / Philip A. Hastings, Lloyd T. Findley, and Albert M. van der Heiden; title: The importance of fisheries in the Gulf of California, and ecosystem-based sustainable co-management for conservation / Miguelá. Cisneros-Mata; title: Sea turtles of the Gulf of California : biology, culture, and conservation / Jeffrey A. Seminoff; title: Ospreys of the Gulf of California : ecology and conservation status / Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Daniel W. Anderson, Charles J. Henny, and Roberto Carmona; title: Marine mammals of the Gulf of California : an overview of diversity and conservation status / Jorge Urbán R.; title: A brief natural history of algae in the Gulf of California / Richard Mccourt; title: Ecological conservation in the Sea of Cortez / María de Los Ángeles Carvajal, Alejandro Robles, and Exequiel Ezcurra.