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A Bibliography for the Gulf of California

Compiled by R. C. Brusca

Abbott, I. A. 1966. Elmer Yale Dawson (1918–1966). Journal of Phycology 2:129–132.

Abbott, I. A. and G. J. Hollenberg. 1976. Marine Algae of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

Abbott, P. L., A. D. Hanson, C. N. Thomson, D. L. Logue, K. D. Bradshaw, W. J. Pollard, and T. E. Seeliger. 1993. Geology of the Paleocene sepulture formation, Mesa de la Sepultura, Baja California. Geología de la formación sepultura del Paleoceno, en mesa de la Sepultura, Baja California. Ciencias Marinas , 19:75–93.

Abitia-Cárdenas, J. Rodríguez-Romero, F. Galván-Magaña, J. De la Cruz-Agüero, and H. Chávez-Ramos. 1994. Systematic list of the ichthyofauna of La Paz Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas 20: 159–181.

Aburto-Oropeza, O. and E. F. Balart. 2001. Community structure of reef fish in several habitats of a rocky reef in the Gulf of California. Pubblicazioni Della Stazione Zoologica Di Napoli (PSZNI): Marine Ecology 22(4):283–305.

Aburto-Oropeza, O., B. Erisman, V. Valdez-Ornelas, and G. Danemann. (2008). Commercially important serranid fishes from the Gulf of California: Ecology, Fisheries, and Conservation. Ciencia Marina y Conservación 1: 1—44.

Aburto-Oropeza, O., E. Ezcurra, G. Danemann, V. Valdez, J. Murray, and E. Sala. 2008. Mangroves in the Gulf of California increase fishery yields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(30): 10456–10459.

Aburto-Oropeza, O. and C. A. Sánchez-Ortiz (eds.). 2000. Recursos arrecifales del Golfo de California, estrategias de manejo para las especies marinas de ornato (Reef resources of the Gulf of California, management strategies for the marine ornate species). Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz. 138 pp.

Aceves-Medina, G., S. P. A. Jiménez-Rosenberg, A. Hinojosa-Medina, R. Funes-Rodríguez, R. J. Saldierna, D. Lluch-Belda, P. E. Smith, and W. Watson. 2003a. Fish larvae from the Gulf of California. Scientia Marinea 67: 1–11.

Aceves-Medina, G., S. P. A. Jiménez-Rosenberg, A. Hinojosa-Medina, R. Funes-Rodríguez, R. J. Saldierna-Martínez, and P. E. Smith. 2003b. Fish larvae assemblages in the Gulf of California. Journal of Fish Biology 65: 832–847.

Addicott, W. O. 1970. Tertiary paleoclimatic trends in the San Joaquin Basin, California. U.S. Geol. Survey Professional Paper, 644-D: 1–19.

Adey, W. and D. McKibben. 1970. Studies on the maerl species Phymatolithon calcareum (Pallas) nov. comb. and Lithothamnion corallioides Crouan in the Rio de Vigo. Botanica Marina 13:100–106.

Agardy, T. 1997. Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Conservation . Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.

Agler, W. E. 1913. Green turtles in lower California. Pp. 1181 in U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, No. 55. March 6.

Aguilar-Rosas, L. E., R. Aguilar-Rosas, L. E. Mateo-Cid, L.E., and A. C. Mendoza-Gonzáles. 2002. Marine algae from the Gulf of Santa Clara, Sonora, México. Hydrobiologia 477: 231–238.

Aguilar-Rosas, L. E., R. Aguilar-Rosas, A. C. Mendoza-Gonzáles, and L. E. Mateo-Cid. 2000. Marine algae from the northeast coast of Baja California, México. Botanica Marina 43: 127–139.

Aguilar-Rosas, R. P., I. Pacheco-Ruíz, and L. E. Aquilar-Rosas. 1984. New records and some notes about the marine algal flora of the northwest coast of Baja California, México. Ciencias Marinas 10(2): 159–166.

Aguilar-Rosas, R. P., T. R. Van Devender, and R. S. Felger. 2000. Cactáceas de Sonora, México: Su Diversidad, Uso y Conservación. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.

Aguirre-Muñoz, A., D. A. Croll, C. J. Donlan, R. W. Henry III, M. A. Hermosillo, G. R. Howald, B. S. Keitt, L. Luna-Mendoza, M. Rodri´guez-Malagón, L. M. Salas-Flores, A. Samaniego-Herrera, J. Angel Sanchez-Pacheco, J. Sheppard, B. R. Tershy, J. Toro-Benito, S. Wolf and B. Wood. 2008. High-impact conservation: invasive mammal eradications from the islands of western México. Ambio 37(2): 101-107.

Aguirre, J., R. Riding, and J.C. Braga. 2000. Diversity of Coralline red algae: origination and extinction patterns from Early Cretaceous to the Pleistocene. Paleobiology 26(4):651–667.

Alcalá, G. 2003. Políticas pesqueras en México (1946–2000). Contradicciones y aciertos en la planificación de la pesca nacional. El Colegio de México, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, El Colegio de Michoacán. México, DF, Ensenada, BC, Morelia, MI. 106 pp.

Allard, D. C. 1999. The origins and early history of the steamer Albatross , 1880–1887. Marine Fisheries Review 61: 1–21.

Allen, G. R. and D. R. Robertson 1994. Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific . Crawford House Press, Bathurst, NSW, Australia, and University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 pp.

———. 1998. Peces del Pacífico Oriental Tropical. [Traducción de M. I. López.] Mexico, D. F.: CONABIO, Agrupación Sierra Madre, y CEMEX. 327 pp.

Altringham, J. 1996. Bats: Biology and Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Alvarado, J. and A. Figueroa. 1992. Recapturas post-anidatorias de hembras de tortuga marina negra ( Chelonia agassizi ) marcadas en Michoacán. Mexico. Biotropica 24:560–566.

Alvarado-Díaz, J., C. Delgado-Trejo and I. Suazo-Ortuño. 2001. Evaluation of black turtle project in Michoacán, Mexico. Marine Turtle Newsletter 92:4–7.

Alvarez-Borrego, S. 1983. Gulf of California. Pp. 427–449, in B. H. Ketchum (ed.), Ecosystems of the World 26. Estuaries and Enclosed Seas. Elsevier Scientific, New York.

———. 1990. Evidence of an ENSO event in the data of the 1889 Albatross cruise to the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas 16(2): 131–135.

———. 2002. Physical oceanography. Pp. 41–60 in T. Case, M. Cody, and E. Ezcurra (eds.), A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortés . Oxford University Press, New York.

———. 2003. Physical and biological linkages between the upper and lower Colorado delta. Pp. 1081–1083 in D. Rapport, W. Lasley, D. Rolston, N. Nielsen, C. Qualset, A. Damania (eds.), Managing for Healthy Ecosystems. Lewis Publishers, Washington, D.C.

Alvarez-Borrego, S., B. P. Flores-Báez, and L. A. Galindo-Bect. 1975. HidrologEia del Alto Golfo de California II. Condiciones durante invierno, primavera y verano. Ciencias Marinas 2(1): 21–36.

Alvarez-Borrego, S., L.A. Galindo-Bect, and B.P. Flores-Baez. 1973. Hidrología. Pages 6–177, in Estudio Químico sobre la Contaminación por Insecticidas en la Desembocadura del Río Colorado, Tomo I, Reporte a la Dirección de Acuacultura de la Secretaría de Recursos Hidráulicos. Available from: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México.

Alvarez-Borrego, S., D. Guthrie, C.H. Culberson, and P.K. Park. 1975. Test of Redfield's model for the oxygen-nutrient relationships using regression analysis. Limnology and Oceanography 20: 795–805.

Alvarez-Borrego, S. and J. R. Lara-Lara. 1991. The physical environment and primary productivity of the Gulf of California. Pp. 555–567 in B. R. T. Simoneit and J. P. Drophin (eds), The Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 47, Tulsa.

Alvarez-Borrego, S., J.A. Rivera, G. Gaxiola-Castro, M.J. Acosta-Ruíz, and R.A. Schwartzlose. 1978. Nutrientes en el Golfo de California. Ciencias Marinas 5: 21–36.

Alvarez-Borrego, S. and R.A. Schwartzlose. 1979. Water masses of the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas 6: 43–63.

Alvarez-Sánchez, L.G., A. Badan-Dangon, and J.M. Robles. 1984. Lagrangian observations of near-surface currents in Canal de Ballenas. CalCOFI Reports 25: 35–42.

American Rivers. 1998. Most Endangered Rivers Report. http://www.amrivers.org; 2008.

Ames, P. L. 1966. DDT residues in the eggs of the Osprey in the northeastern USA and their relation to nest success. Journal of Applied Ecology 3 (Supplement): 87–97.

Ames, P. L. and G. S. Mersereau. 1964. Some factors in the decline of the Osprey in Connecticut. Auk 81: 173–185.

Amezcua-Linares, F. 1996. Peces demersales de la plataforma continental del Pacífico central de México. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D. F. 184 pp.

Anderson, D. G. and J. C. Gillam. 2000. Paleoindian colonization of the Americas: implications from an examination of physiography, demography, and artifact distribution. American Antiquity 65: 43-66.

Anderson, D. L. 1971. The San Andreas Fault. Scientific American, 225: 58–68.

Anderson, D. W. 1983. The seabirds. Pp. 246–264 in T. J. Case and M. L. Cody (eds.), Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortéz. University California Press, Berkeley.

———. 2003. Overview: the Colorado River Delta Ecosystem: Ecological issues at the U.S.–Mexico border. Pp. 1069–1070 in D. J. Rapport, W. L. Lasley, D. E. Rolston, N. O. Nielsen, C. Q.Qualset, and A. B. Damania (eds.). Managing for Healthy Ecosystems . Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.

Anderson, D. W. and J. O. Keith. 1980. The human influence on seabird nesting success: conservation implications. Biological Conservation 18: 65-80.

Anderson, D. W., S. Alvarez-Borrego, H. R. Carter, F. Gress, C. Harrison, J. O. Keith, B. Keitt, P. R. Kelly, E. Palacios, and E. Velarde. Pacific Seabird Group seabird conservation policy in the Gulf of California and waters of western Baja California. Pacific Seabirds 32(2).

Anderson, D. W., F. Gress, K. F. Mais, and P. R. Kelly. 1980. Brown pelicans as anchovy stock indicators and their relationships to commercial fishing. CalCOFI Reports, 21: 54–61.

Anderson, D.W., C. J. Henny, C. Godinez-Reyes, F. Gress, E. L. Palacios, K. Santos del Prado, and J. Bredy. 2007. Size of the California brown pelican metapopulation during a non-El Niño year. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, Open-File Report 2007–1299.

Anderson, D.W. and E. Palacios. 2008. Seabirds and bird islands in the Bahía de los Angeles region: status and conservation. Fauna and Flora of the Bahía de los Angeles National Park . ProNatura Noroeste, Mexico.

Anderson, D. W., E. Palacios, E. Mellink, and C. Valdés-Casillas. 2003. Migratory bird conservation and ecological health in the Colorado River delta region. Pp. 1091–1109 in D. Rapport, W. Lasley, D. Rolston, N. Nielsen, C. Qualset, and A. Damania (eds.), Managing for Healthy Ecosystems. Lewis Publishers, Washington, D.C.

APLIC (Avian Power Line Interaction Committee). 2006. Suggested practices for avian protection on power lines: the state of the art in 2006. Edison Electric Institute, APLIC, and the California Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, CA.

Applegate, S. P., F. Soltelo-Macías, and L. Espinosa-Arrubarrena. 1993. An overview of the Mexican shark fisheries, with suggestions for shark conservation in Mexico. Pp. 31–37 in Branstetter, S. (ed.), Conservation Biology of Elasmobranchs. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Report 115.

Aragón-Noriega, E. A. and L. E. Calderón-Aguilera. 2000. Does damming of the Colorado River affect the nursery area of blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris (Decapoda; Penaeidae) in the upper Gulf of California? Rev. Biol. Trop. 48: 867–871.

Argote, M. L., A. Amador, M. F. Lavín, and J. Hunter. 1995. Tidal dissipation and stratification in the Gulf of California. Journal of Geophysical Research 100: 103–118.

Arnaud, S. 1970. The Sefton Foundation Orca Expedition to the Gulf of California, March-April, 1953. General Account. Occasional Papers, California Academy of Sciences, No. 86.

Arnaud, S., M. Monteforte, N. Galtier, F. Bonhomme, F. Blanc. 2000. Population structure and genetic variability of pearl oyster Pinctada mazatlanica along Pacific coast from Mexico to Panama. Conservation Genetics 1, 299 –307.

Arita, H. and J. Ortega. 1998. The middle American bat fauna: Conservation in the neotropical-nearctic border. Pp. 295–308 in T. Kunz, P. Racey (eds.), Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Arnold, B. A. 1957. Late Pleistocene and Recent changes in land forms, climate, and archaeology in central Baja California. University of California Publications in Geography 10: 201-317.

Arreguín-Sánchez, F., E. Arcos, and E. A. Chávez. 2002. Flows of biomass and structure in an exploited benthic ecosystem in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Ecological Modeling 156: 167–183.

Arreola-Robles, J. L. and J. F. Elorduy-Garay. 2002. Reef fish diversity in the region of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 70: 1–18.

Arvizu, M. J. 1987. Fisheries activities in the Gulf of California, Mexico. CalCOFI Report 28:26–32.

Aschmann, H. 1959. The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology. Ibero-America 42. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA.

Aschmann, H. (ed.). 1966. The natural and human history of Baja California–from manuscripts by Jesuit missionaries in the Decade 1752–1762. Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, California.

Athanasiadis A., P. A. Lebednik, and W. H. Adey. 2004. The genus Mesophyllum (Melobesioideae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta) on the northern Pacific coast of North America. Phycologia 43 (2):126–165.

ATRT (Advanced Tuna Ranching Technologies, Inc.). 2005. Special Update. Tuna ranching intelligence unit report. Madrid, November 25, 2005. 97 pp.

Aubert, H. and D. V. Lightner. 2000. Identification of genetic populations of the Pacific blue shrimp Penaeus stylirostris of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Biology 137, 875 – 885.

Aurioles, D., B. J. Le Boeuf, and L. T. Findley. 1993. Registros de pinnípedos poco comunes para el Golfo de California. Revista de Investigación Científica, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (SOMEMMA), 1:13–19.

Aurioles-Gamboa, D. 1993. Biodiversidad y estado actual de los mamíferos marinos en México. Vol. Esp. (XLIV) Revista Sociedad Mexicana Historia Natural. Pp. 397–412.

Aurioles-Gamboa, D. and G. A. Zavala. 1999. Algunos factores ecológicos que determinan la distribución y abundancia del lobo marino Zalophus californianus , en el Golfo de California. Ciencias Marinas 20(4):535–553.

Averett, W. E. 1920. Lower California green turtle fishery. Pacific Fishermen 18:24–25.

Avila-Serrano, G. E., K. W. Flessa, M. A. Téllez-Duarte, and C. E. Cintra-Buenrostro. 2006. Distribution of the intertidal macrofauna of the Colorado River delta, northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas 32(4):649–661.

Badan-Dangon, A., C. E. Dorman, M. A. Merrifield, and C. D. Winant. 1991. The lower atmosphere over the Gulf of California. Journal of Geophysical Research 96:16877–16896.

Badan-Dangon, A., M. C. Hendershott, and M. F. Lavín. 1991. Underway Doppler Current Profiles in the Gulf of California. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 72:209–214.

Badan-Dangon, A., C. J. Koblinsky, and T. Baumgartner. 1985. Spring and summer in the Gulf of California: observations of surface thermal patterns. Oceanologica Acta 8:13–22.

Bahre, C. J. and L. Bourillón. 2002. Human impact in the Midriff Islands. Pp. 383–406 in T. Case, M. Cody, and E. Ezcurra (eds.), A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortés . Oxford University Press, New York.

Bahre, C. J., L. Bourillón, and J. Torre. 2000. The Seri and commercial totoaba fishing (1930–1965). Journal of the Southwest 42:559–575.

Baird, S. F., T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. 1874. A History of North American Birds: Land Birds . Little, Brown, and Co., Boston.

Baker, C. S., L. Medrano-González, J. Calambokidis, A. Perry, F. Pichler, H. Rosembaum, J.M. Straley, J. Urbán R., M. Yamaguchi, and O. von Ziegesar. 1998. Population structure of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation among humpback whales in the North Pacific. Molecular Ecology 7(6):695–708.

Balart, E. F., J. L. Castro-Aguirre, D. Aurioles-Gamboa, F. García-Rodríguez, and C. Villavicencio-Garayzar. 1995. Adiciones a la ictiofauna de Bahía de La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. Hidrobiológica 5(1–2):79–85.

Balart, E. F., J. L. Castro-Aguirre, and F. De Lachica-Bonilla. 1997. Análisis comparativo de las comunidades ícticas de fondos blandos y someros de la Bahía de La Paz. Pp. 163–176 in J. Urbán-Ramírez, and M. Ramírez-Rodríguez (eds.), La Bahía de La Paz, investigación y conservación. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz. 345 pp.

Balart, E. F., J. L. Castro-Aguirre, and R. Torres-Orozco. 1993. Ictiofauna de las bahías de Ohuira, Topolobampo, y Santa Mária, Sinaloa, México. Investigaciones Marinas CICIMAR (La Paz, B.C.S.) [for 1992] 7(2):91–103.

Balcomb, III, K. C. 1989. Baird's beaked whale Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883; Arnoux's beaked whale Berardius arnuxii Durvenoy, 1851. Pp. 261–288 in S. H. Ridway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 4, Academic Press, Londres. 442 pp.

Ballantine, D. L., A. Bowden-Kerby, and N. E. Aponte. 2000. Cruoriella rhodoliths from shallow-water back reef environments in La Parguera, Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea). Coral Reefs 19:75–81.

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Banks, R. C. 1962a. A history of exploration for vertebrates on Cerralvo Island, Baja California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 30 (6):117–125.

Banks, R. C. 1962b. Birds of the Belvedere expedition to the Gulf of California. Transactions, San Diego Society of Natural History 13:51–60.

Barham, E. 1970. Retracing of the Rickets-Steinbeck voyage, aboard the RV Saluda. San Diego, Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) Technical Publication 27. Available from Public Affairs officer, NOSC, Rosecrans Bldg., San Diego, California 92152.

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Barlow, J., K. Forney, A. von Saunder, and J. Urbán R. 1997. A report of cetacean acoustic detection and dive interval studies (CADDIS) conducted in the southern Gulf of California, 1995. Technical Memorandum NOAA-NMFS-SWFSC-250. 52 pp.

Barlow, J., M.C. Furguson, W.F. Perrin, L. Balance, T. Gerrodette, G. Joyce, C.D. Macleod, K. Mullin, D.L. Palka, and G. Waring. 2006. Abundance and densities of beaked and bottlenose whales (family Ziphiidae). J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 7 (3):263–270.

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Barnes, L. G. and E. D. Mitchell. 1984. Kentriodon obscurus (Kellogg 1931), a fossil dolphin (Mammalia: Kentridontidae) from the Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed in California. Contributions Science Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, 353:1–23.

Barrera-Guevara, J. C. 1990. The conservation of Totoaba macdonaldi (Gilbert) (Pisces: Sciaenidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Journal of Fish Biology 37: 201–202.

Bartholomew, G. A. and C. L. Hubbs. 1952. Winter population of pinnipeds about Guadalupe, San Benitos, and Cedros Islands, Baja California. Journal of Mammalogy 33:160–171.

———. 1960. Population growth and seasonal movements of the northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris. Mammalia 24:313–324.

Barrett, K., D. A. Wait and W. B. Anderson. 2003. Small island biogeography in the Gulf of California: lizards, the subsidized island biogeography hypothesis, and the small island effect. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1575-1581.

Basurto, X. 2007. Commercial diving and the callo de hacha fishery in Seri Territory. Journal of the Southwest 48 (2):189–209.

Baumgartner, T. R., V. Ferreira-Bartrina, H. Schrader, and A. Soutar. 1985. A 20-year varve of siliceous phytoplankton variability in the central Gulf of California. Marine Geology 64:113–129.

Beal, C. H. 1948. Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico. Geological society of America, Memoir 31.

Behrens, D. W., and A. Hermosillo. 2005. Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs. A Guide to the Opisthobranchs from Alaska to Central America . Sea Challengers, Monterey, CA.

Beier, E. 1997. A numerical investigation of the annual variability in the Gulf of California. Journal of Physical Oceanography 27:615–632.

Bellan-Santini, D. and S. Ruffo. 2003. Biogeography of benthic marine amphipods in Mediterranean Sea. Biogeographia 24:273–292.

Bello, G. 2003. The biogeography of Mediterranean cephalopods. Biogeographia 24:210–226.

Berdegué, A. J. 1956a. La foca Fina, el Elefante Marino y la Ballena Gris en Baja California y el Problema de su Conservación. Instituto Mexicano de Recursos Renovables, México, D.F., México.

———. 1956b. Peces de Importancia Comercial en la Costa Noroccidental de México. Dirección General de Pesca e Industrias Conexas, Secretaría de Marina, México, D.F. 345 pp.

Bergman, C. 2002. Red Delta. Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River. Defenders of Wildlife and Fulcrum Press, Golden, CO.

Bermingham, E., S. S. McCafferty and A. P. Martin. 1997. Fish biogeography and molecular clocks: perspectives from the Panamanian isthmus. Pp. 113–128 in T. D. Kocher and C. A. Stepien (eds.), Molecular Systematics of Fishes. Academic Press, San Diego.

Bernardi, G., L. Findley and A. Rocha-Olivares. 2003. Vicariance and dispersal across Baja California in disjunct marine fish populations. Evolution 57 (7):1599–1609.

Bernardi, G. and J. Lape. 2005. Tempo and mode of speciation in the Baja California disjunct fish specis Anisotremus davidsonii . Molecular Ecology 14:4085–4096.

Berón-Vera, F. J. and P. Ripa. 2002. Seasonal salinity balance in the Gulf of California. Journal of Geophysical Research 107:1–15.

Berry, R. W. and J. Ledesma-Vázquez. 1998. Clay and zeolite mineralogy of Miocene and Pliocene (proposed) volcaniclastic deposits, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 11th International Clay Conference, Ontario, Canada.

Bérubé, M., J. Urbán R., A. Dizon, R. L. Brownell, and P. J. Palsbøll. 2002. Genetic identification of a small and highly isolated population of fin whales ( Balaenopetra physalus ) in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Conservation Genetics 3:183–190.

Best, P. B. 2007. Whales and dolphins of the Southern African Subregion . Cambridge University Press. Cape Town. 338 pp.

Beveridge, C., G. Kocurek, R. C. Ewing, N. Lancaster, P. Morthekai, A. K. Singhvi, and S. A. Mahan. 2006. Development of spatially diverse and complex dune-field patterns: Gran Desierto Dune Field, Sonora, Mexico. Sedimentology 53:1391–1409.

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Bird, K. and W. J. Nichols. 2002. Community-based research and its application to sea turtle conservation in Bahía Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Pp. 339–340 in A. Mosier, A. Foley, and B. Brost (comps.). Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-477.

Birkett, D., C. Maggs, and M. Dring. 1998. Maerl (volume V). An Overview of Dynamic and Sensitivity Characteristics for Conservation Management of Marine SACs. Scottish Association for Marine Science (UK Marine SACs Project).

Bjorndal, K. A. 1997. Foraging ecology and nutrition of sea turtles. Pp. 199–232 in P. L. Lutz and J. A. Musick (eds.), The Biology of Sea Turtles. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Bjorndal, K. A. and J. B. C. Jackson. 2003. Roles of sea turtles in marine ecosystems: reconstructing the past. Pp. 259–273 in P. L. Lutz, J. A. Musick, and J. A. Wyneken (eds.), The Biology of Sea Turtles. Volume II. CRC Marine Biology Series, CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Blake, E. R. 1953. Birds of Mexico: A Guide for Field Identification. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Blunden, G., W. Farnham, N. Jephson, C. Barwell, R. Fenn, and B. Plunkett. 1981. The composition of maerl beds of economic interest in Northern Brittany, Cornwall and Ireland. International Seaweed Symposium 10:651–656.

Blunden, G., W. Farnham, N. Jephson, R. Fenn, and B. Plunkett. 1977. The composition of maerl from the Glenan Islands of Southern Brittany. Botanica Marina 20:121–125.

Boehm, M. C. 1984. An overview of the lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and paleoenvironments of the late Neogene San Felipe marine sequence, Baja California, Mexico. Pp. 219–236 in V. A. Frizzell, (ed.), Geology of the Baja California: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists 39.

Bogan, M. 1999. Family Vespertilionidae. Pp. 139–181 in S. Alvarez-Casteñada, and J. Patton (eds.), Mamíferos del noroeste de México. La Paz, Baja California Sur, México: Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C.

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