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

Imprint Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 354 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Series Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-330) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Brusca, Richard C.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780816527397 (hardback)
0816527393 (hardback)
9780816503568 (paperback)
0816503567 (paperback)
9780816502752 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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