The Gulf of California
Subtitle: biodiversity and conservation
By: edited by Richard C. Brusca
Series: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
Publisher: University of Arizona Press; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780816527397; 9780816503568
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-330) 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 ... [et al.]; 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 / Miguel Á. 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 ... [et al.]; 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 Gulf of California / María de Los Ángeles Carvajal, Alejandro Robles, and Exequiel Ezcurra.