The Gulf of California : biodiversity and conservation / / edited by Richard C. Brusca ; [foreword by Rodrigo C. Brusca].

• Superior document: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Brusca, Richard C.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history.
• Physical Description: xi, 354 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).

Table of Contents

Origin, age, and geological evolution of the Gulf of California / Jorge Ledesma-Vazquez and Ana Luisa Carreno -- Physical, chemical, and biological oceanography of the Gulf of California / Saul Alvarez-Borrego -- Reefs that rock and roll : biology and conservation of rhodolith beds in the Gulf of California / Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez ... [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 A. 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 Urban R. -- A brief natural history of algae in the Gulf of California / Richard McCourt -- Ecological conservation in the Gulf of California / Maria de Los Angeles Carvajal, Alejandro Robles, and Exequiel Ezcurra.