Table of Contents

Jorge Soberón Mainero: Preface
Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Gerardo Ceballos, and Richard S. Felger: Introduction
PARI I: INTRODUCTION
1: Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca, Laura I. González Guzmán, and Jean-Luc E. Cartron: Northern Mexico's landscape, Part I: The physical setting and constraints on modeling biotic evolution
2: Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca and Laura I. González-Guzmán: Northern Mexico's landscape, Part II: The biotic setting across time
3: Scott H. Stoleson, Richard S. Felger, Gerardo Ceballos, Carol Raish, Michael F. Wilson, and Alberto Búrquez: Recent history of natural resource use and population growth in northern Mexico
4: Alberto Székely, Luis Octavio Martínez Morales, Mark J. Spalding, and Dominique Cartron
: Mexico's legal and institutional framework for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems


PART II: PATTERNS OF SPECIES DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
5: Thomas R. Van Devender, John R. Reeder, Charlotte G. Reeder, and Ana Lilia Reina G.: Distribution and diversity of grasses of the Yécora Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental of eastern Sonora, Mexico
6: W. David Sissom and Brent E. Hendrixson: Scorpion biodiversity and patterns of endemism in northern Mexico
7: Francisco J. García de León, Delladira Gutiérrez Tirado, Dean A. Hendrickson, and Héctor Espinosa Pérez: Fishes of the continental waters of Tamaulipas: diversity and conservation status
8: L. Lee Grismer and Eric Mellink: Historical and ecological biogeography of the terrestrial herpetofauna of northern Baja California
9: Richard C. Brusca, Lloyd T. Findley, Phillip A. Hastings, Michel E. Hendrickx, Jorge Torre Cosio, and Albert M. van der Heiden.: Macrofaunal diversity in the Gulf of California
10: Thomas R. Van Devender, Karen Krebbs, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Ana Lilia Reina G., and William A. Calder: Hummingbird communities along an elevational gradient in the Sierra Madre Occidental of eastern Sonora, Mexico
11: David J. Hafner and Brett R. Riddle: Mammalian phylogeography and evolutionary history of northern Mexico's deserts
12: Mark A. Dimmitt, John F. Wiens, and Thomas R. Van Devender: Extreme succulent plant diversity on Cerro Colorado near San Ignacio, Baja California Sur
13: Héctor M. Hernández and Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa: Cactus diversity and endemism in the Chihuahuan Desert Region
14: Jorge Urbán R., Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Mercedes Guerrero-Ruíz, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta, and Lloyd T. Findley: Cetacean diversity and conservation in the Gulf of California
15: Robert C. Whitmore, Richard C. Brusca, José León de la Luz, Patricia González-Zamorano, Renato Mendoza-Salgado, Edgar S. Amador-Silva, Gina Holguin, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Philip A. Hastings, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Richard S. Felger, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Carole C. McIvor: The ecological importance of mangroves in Baja California Sur: Conservation implications for an endangered ecosystem
16: Ricardo Rodríguez-Estrella, Ma. Carmen Blázquez, and Juan Manuel Lobato G.
: Avian communities of arroyos and desert oases in Baja California Sur: implications for conservation


PART III: NATURAL RESOURCE IMPACTS AND CONSERVATION AT A POPULATION, SPECIES, AND LANDSCAPE LEVEL
17: Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Richard E. Harness, Robert C. Rogers, and Patricia Manzano-Fischer: Impact of concrete power poles on raptors and ravens in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
18: Richard A. Minnich and Ernesto Franco-Vizcaíno: Baja California's enduring Mediterranean vegetation: early accounts, human impacts, and conservation status
19: Rodrigo A. Medellín, Carlos Manterola, Manuel Valdéz, David G. Hewitt, Diana Doan-Crider, and Timothy E. Fulbright: History, ecology, and conservation of the pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, and black bear in Mexico
20: Richard S. Felger, Wallace J. Nichols, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff: Sea turtles in northwestern Mexico: conservation, ethnobiology, and desperation
21: Gerardo Ceballos, Rurik List, Jesús Pacheco, Patricia Manzano-Fischer, Georgina Santos, and Mario Royo: Prairie dogs, cattle, and crops: diversity and conservation of the grassland-shrubland habitat mosaic in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico
22: Martha J. Desmond, Kendal E. Young, Bruce C. Thompson, Raul Valdez, and Alberto Lafón Terrazas: Habitat associations and conservation of grassland birds in the Chihuahuan Desert Region: two case studies in Chihuahua, Mexico
23: Enriqueta Velarde, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Hugh Drummond, Daniel W. Anderson, Fanny Rebón Gallardo, Eduardo Palacios, and Cristina Rodríguez: Nesting seabirds of the Gulf of California's offshore islands: diversity, ecology, and conservation