The Gulf of California

The Gulf of California biodiversity and conservation / [electronic resource] : edited by Richard C. Brusca ; [foreword by Rodrigo C. Brusca]. - Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, c2010. - xi, 354 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history . - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-330) and index.

Origin, age, and geological evolution of the Gulf of California / Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez and Ana Luisa Carreño -- Physical, chemical, and biological oceanography of the Gulf of California / Saúl Alvarez-Borrego -- Reefs that rock and roll : biology and conservation of rhodolith beds in the Gulf of California / Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez ... [et al.] -- Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation in the Gulf of California / Richard C. Brusca and Michel E. Hendrickx -- Fishes of the Gulf of California / Philip A. Hastings, Lloyd T. Findley, and Albert M. van der Heiden -- The importance of fisheries in the Gulf of California, and ecosystem-based sustainable co-management for conservation / Miguel Á. Cisneros-Mata -- Sea turtles of the Gulf of California : biology, culture, and conservation / Jeffrey A. Seminoff -- Ospreys of the Gulf of California : ecology and conservation status / Jean-Luc E. Cartron ... [et al.] -- Marine mammals of the Gulf of California : an overview of diversity and conservation status / Jorge Urbán R. -- A brief natural history of algae in the Gulf of California / Richard McCourt -- Ecological conservation in the Gulf of California / María de Los Ángeles Carvajal, Alejandro Robles, and Exequiel Ezcurra.


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Biodiversity--Mexico--California, Gulf of.
Wildlife conservation--Mexico--California, Gulf of.
Water--Law and legislation--Mexico--California, Gulf of.
Natural history--Mexico--California, Gulf of.


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