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A Bibliography for the Gulf of California

Compiled by R. C. Brusca

Jackson, J. B. C., 1997. Reefs since Columbus. Coral Reefs 16:s23-s32.

Jackson, J. B. C., and J. D'Cruz. 1998. The ocean divided. Pp. 38–71 in A. G. Coates (ed.), Central America: A Natural and Cultural History. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Jacobs, D. K., T. A. Haney, and K. D. Louie. 2004. Genes, diversity, and geological process on the Pacific coast. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 32:601–652.

Jacobson, L., J. AA De Oliveira, M. Barange, M. Á. Cisneros-Mata, R. Félix-Urraga, J. R. Hunter, J. Y. Kim, Y. Matsuura, M. Ñiquen, C. Porteiro, B. Rothschild, R. P. Sánchez, R. Serra, A. Uriarte, and T. Wada. 2001. Surplus production, variability, and climate change in the great sardine and anchovy fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:1981–1903.

James, D. W. 2000. Diet, movement, and covering behavior of the sea urchin Toxopneustes roseus in rhodolith beds in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Biology 137 (5/6): 913–923.

James, D. W., M. S. Foster, and J. O. Sullivan. 2006. Bryoliths (Bryozoa) in the Gulf of California. Pacific Science 60 (1):117–124.

James, N. P. 1979. Facies models 9. Introduction to carbonate facies models. Geoscience Canada 4 (3):123–125.

Janisse, C., D. Squires, J.A. Seminoff and P.H. Dutton. 2009. Conservation Investments and Mitigation: The California Drift Gillnet Fishery and Pacific Sea Turtles . In: R. Hilorn, D. Squires, M. Williams, M. Tait, Q. Grafton (eds.) Handbook of Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management. Oxford University Press, New York. Pp. 231-240

Jaquet, N. and D. Gendron. 2002. Distribution and relative abundance of sperm whales in relation to key environmental features, squid landings and the distribution of other cetacean species in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Biology 141:591–601.

Jaquet, N., D. Gendron, and A. Coakes. 2003. Sperm whales in the Gulf of California: residency, movements, behavior, and the possible influence of variation in food supply. Marine Mammal Science 19 (3):545–562.

Jaramillo-Legorreta, A., L. Rojas-Bracho, R. L. Brownell Jr., A. J. Read, R. R. Reeves, K. Ralls, and B. L. Taylor. 2007. Saving the vaquita: Immediate action, no more data. Conservation Biology (21) 6:1653–1658.

Jaramillo-Legorreta, A. M., L. Rojas-Bracho, and T. Gerrodette. 1999. A new abundance estimate for vaquitas: first step for recovery. Marine Mammal Science 15 (4):957–973.

Jehl, J. R., Jr., W. S. Boyd, D. S. Paul, and D. W. Anderson. 2003. Massive collapse and rapid rebound: population dynamics of eared grebes ( Podiceps nigricollis ) during an ENSO event. Auk 119:1162–1166.

Jiménez-Gutiérrez, S. V. 1999. Abundancia y estructura de peces de arrecife rocoso en la zona de Isla Cerralvo, B.C.S., México. Tesis de maestría [master's thesis], CICIMAR-IPN, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico. 91 pp.

Johnson, J. B. 1950. The Opata: An Inland Tribe of Sonora. University of New Mexico Publications, Anthropology No. 6.

Johnson, M. E. and M. L. Hayes. 1993. Dichotomous facies on a Late Cretaceous rocky island as related to wind and wave patterns (Baja California, Mexico). Palaios 8:385–395.

Johnson, M. E. and J. Ledesma-Vazquez. 2001. Pliocene-Pleistocene rocky shorelines trace coastal development of Bahía Concepción, gulf coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 166:65–88.

Jones, G. and P. Ward. 1998. Privatizing the commons: reforming the ejido and urban development in Mexico. International Journal Urban and Regional Research 22:76.

Jones, M. L., and S. L. Swartz. 1984. Demography and Phenology of Gray Whales and Evaluation of Human Activities in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Pp. 309–374 in M. L. Jones, S. L. Swartz, and S. Leatherwood (eds.), The Gray Whale , Eschrichtius robustus. Academic Press, Orlando.

Jordan, D. S. 1895. The fishes of Sinaloa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5:377–514. [Reprinted in Contributions to Biology, Hopkins Laboratory of Biology, Stanford University Publications, No. 1:1–71].

Jordan, D. S., and B. W. Evermann. 1896–1900. The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Parts I-IV. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 47:1–3313.

Jordan, D. S. and C. H. Gilbert. 1882a. Catalogue of the fishes collected by Mr. John Xantus at Cape San Lucas, which are now in the United States National Museum, with descriptions of eight new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 5 (290):353–371.

———. 1882b. List of fishes collected by Lieut. Henry E. Nichols, U.S.N., in the Gulf of California and on the west coast of Lower California, with descriptions of four new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 4:273–279.

Jordán, F. 1951. El otro México: Biografía de Baja California . Biografías Gandesa, México, D.F.

Judge, D. S. 1981. Productivity and provisioning behavior of Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) in the Gulf of California. Master's thesis, University of California, Davis.

———. 1983. Productivity of ospreys in the Gulf of California. Wilson Bulletin 95:243–255.

Kamenos, N. A. , P. G. Moore, and J. M. Hall-Spencer. 2004. Nursery-area function of maerl grounds for juvenile queen scallops Aequipecten opercularis and other invertebrates. Marine Ecology Progress Series 274:183–189.

Kamezaki, N., Y. Matsuzawa, O. Abe, et al. 2003. Loggerhead turtles nesting in Japan. Pp. 210–217 in A. Bolten and B. Witherington (eds.), Loggerhead Sea Turtles. Smithsonian Books, Washington D.C.

Karl, S. A., and B. W. Bowen. 1999. Evolutionary significant units versus geopolitical taxonomy: Molecular systematics of an endangered sea turtle Genus. Conservation Biology 13:990–999.

Karol, K. G., R. M. McCourt, M. T. Cimino, and C. F. Delwiche. 2001. The closest living relatives of land plants. Science 294:2351–2353.

Keegan, B. F. 1974. The macrofauna of maerl substrates on the west coast of Ireland. Cahiers de Biologie Marine IV:513–530.

Keen, A. M. 1971. Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. 2nd ed. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.

Kerstitch, A., and H. Bertsch. 2007. Sea of Cortez Marine Invertebrates. 2nd ed. (rev.). Sea Challengers, Monterey, CA.

Kiff, L. F. 1980. Historical changes in resident populations of California islands raptors. Pp. 651–673 in D. M. Power (ed.), The California Islands: Proceedings of a Multidisciplinary Symposium. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California. 788 pp.

Kim, W. H., and J. A.Barron. 1986. Diatom biostratigraphy of the upper Oligocene and lowermost Miocene San Gregorio Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Diatom Research 1 (2):169–187.

Kino, F. E. 1954 [1683] Kino Reports to Headquarters: Correspondence of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S. J. from New Spain to Rome. English translation and notes by Ernest J. Burrus, S. J. Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesus, Rome.

Klimley, A. P. 1993. Highly directional swimming by scalloped hammerhead sharks, Sphyrna lewini , and subsurface irradiance, temperature, bathymetry, and geomagnetic field. Marine Biology 117:1–22.

Klimley, A. P., I. Cabrera-Mancilla, and J. L. Castro-Geniz. 1993. Descripción de los movimientos horizontales y verticales del tiburón martillo del sur del Golfo de California, México. Ciencias Marinas 19 (1):95–115.

Klimley, A. P., S. J. Forgensen, A. Muhlia-Melo, and S. C. Beavers. 2003. The occurrence of yhellowfin tuna ( Thunnus albacares ) at Espíritu Santo Seamount in the Gulf of California. Fishery Bulletin 101 (3):684–692.

Klimley, A. P., and D. R. Nelson. 1981. Schooling of the scalloped hamerhead shark, Sphryna lewini , in the Gulf of California. Fishery Bulletin 79 (2):356–360.

———. 1984. Diel movement patterns of the scalloped hamerhead shark ( Sphryna lewini ) in relation to El Bajo Espiritu Santo: a refuging centra-position social system. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 15:45–54.

Klimley, A. P., J. E. Richert, and S. J. Jorgensen. 2005. The home of blue water fish. American Scientist 93:42–49.

Kobayashi, D. R. 1986. Social organization of the spotted sharpnose puffer, Canthigaster punctatissima . Environmental Biology of Fishes 15 (2):141–145.

Kopitsky, K. L., R. L. Pitman, and P. H. Dutton. 2005. Aspects of olive ridley feeding ecology in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Pp. 217 in M. S. Coyne and R. Clark (compilers), Proceedings of the 21 st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-528.

Kotrschal, K. 1988. A catalogue of skulls and jaws of eastern tropical Pacific blennioid fishes (Blennioidei: Teleostei): A proposed evolution sequence of morphological change. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik Und Evolutionsforschung 26:442–466.

Kotrschal, K. and D. G. Lindquist. 1986. The feeding apparatus in four Pacific tube blennies (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae): Lack of ecomorphological divergence in syntopic species. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 7:241–253.

Kotrschal, K. and D. A. Thomson. 1986. Feeding patterns in eastern tropical Pacific blennioid fishes (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae, Labrisomidae, Chaenopsidae, Blenniidae). Oecologica (Berlin) 70:367–378.

Kowalewski, M., G. E. Avila Serrano, K. W. Flessa, and G. A. Goodfriend. 2000. Dead delta's former productivity: Two trillion shells at the mouth of the Colorado River. Geology 28:1059–1062.

Krutch, J.W. 1961. The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California . W. Sloane Associates, San Francisco (reeditado por A.H. Zwinger, University of Arizona Press, 1986; Tucson).

Krutch, J.W. and E. Porter. 1957. Baja California and the Geography of Hope . Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.

Lambeck, K. and J. Chappell. 2001. Sea level change through the last glacial cycle. Science 292: 679-686.

Larson, R. L., H. W. Menard, and S. M. Smith. 1968. Gulf of California: A result of ocean-spreading and transform faulting. Science 161:781–784.

Lavenberg, R. J. and J. E. Fitch. 1966. Annotated list of the fishes collected by midwater trawl in the Gulf of California, March-April 1964. California Fish and Game 52:92–110.

Lavín, M. F., E. Beier, and A. Badan. 1997. Estructura hidrográfica y circulación del Golfo de California: escalas estacional e interanual. Pp. 141–171 in M.F. Lavín (ed.), Contribuciones a la Oceanografía Física en México , Monografía No. 3, Unión Geofísica Mexicana, Ensenada.

Lavín, M. F., R. Duranzo, E. Palacios, M. L. Argote, and L. Carrillo. 1997. Lagrangian observations of the circulation in the northern Gulf of California. Journal of Physical Oceanography 27:2298–2305.

Lavín, M. F., V. M. Godínez, and L. G. Alvarez. 1998. Inverse-estuarine features of the upper Gulf of California. Estuarine, Coastal, Shelf Science 47:769–795.

Lavín, M. F. and S. Sánchez. 1999. On how the Colorado River affected the hydrography of the upper Gulf of California. Continental Shelf Research 19:1545–1560.

Lawlor, T. E., D. J. Hafner, P. T. Stapp, B. R. Riddle, and S. T. Álvarez-Castañeda. 2002. Mammals. Pp. 271–312 in Case, T. J., M. L. Cody, and E. Ezcurra (eds.), A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortés. Oxford University Press, New York.

Lawrence, G. N. 1874. The birds of western and northwestern Mexico, based upon the collections made by Col. A. J. Grayson, Capt. J. Xantus, and Ferd. Bischoff, now in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2 (9):265–319.

Laylander, D. and J. D. Moore (eds.) 2006. The Prehistory of Baja California . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Lea, R. N. and R. H. Rosenblatt. 2000. Observations on fishes associated with the 1997–98 El Niño off California. CalCOFI Report 41:117–129.

Leaché, A. D. and D. G. Mulcahy. 2007. Phylogeny, divergence times, and species limits of spiny lizards ( Sceloporus magister species-group) in western North American deserts and Baja California. Molecular Ecology 16(24): 5216-5233.

Leaché, A. D., S. C. Crews and M. J. Hickerson. 2007. Two waves of diversification in mammals and reptiles of Baja California revealed by hierarchical Bayesian analysis. Biology Letters 3: 646-650.

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Leatherwood, S., W. F. Perrin, V. L. Kirby, C. L. Hubbs, and M. Dahlheim. 1980. Distribution and movements of Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus , in the eastern North Pacific. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 77:951–963.

Leatherwood, S. and R. R. Reeves. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of whales and dolphins. Sierra Club, Tokyo, Japan. 302 pp.

Leatherwood, S., R. R. Reeves, W. F. Perrin, and W. E. Evans. 1988. Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Eastern North Pacific and Adjacent Arctic Waters. A guide to their identification. Dover Publications, New York. 245 pp.

Le Boeuf, B. J., D. Aurioles, R. Condit, C. Fox, R. Gisiner, R. Romero, and F. Sinsel. 1983. Size and distribution of the California sea lion population in Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 43:77–85.

Le Boeuf, B. J., H. Pérez-Cortés M., J. Urbán R., B. R. Mate, and F. Ollervides U. 2000. High gray whale mortality and low recruitment in 1999: potential causes and implications. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 2 (2):85–99.

Lechuga-Deveze, C. H., M. L. Morquecho-Escamilla, A. Reyes-Salinas, J. R. Hernandez-Alfonso. 2000. Environmental natural disturbances in Bahía Concepción, Gulf of California. Pp. 245–255 in S. G. L. M. Munawar, I.F. Munawar, and D. F. Malley (eds.). Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope, Ecovision World Monograph Series. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Ledesma-Vázquez, J. 2002. A gap in the Pliocene invasion of seawater, Gulf of California. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas , 19 (3):145–151.

Ledesma-Vázquez, J. and M. E. Johnson. 1993. Neotectónica del área Loreto-Mulegé. Pp. 115–122 in L. Delgado Argote and A. Martín Barajas, (eds.), Contribuciones a la Tectónica del Occidente de México , Monografía 1. Unión Geofísica Mexicana, Ensenada.

———. 2001. Miocene-Pleistocene tectono-sedimentary evolution of Bahía Concepción region, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Sedimentary Geology 144:83–96.

Ledesma-Vázquez, J., M. E. Jonson, and F. R. Romero-Ríos. 1999. Evolución tectónica del Golfo de California: Miocen-Plioceno de Bahía Concepción, B.C.S., Gaceta AMGp, 3 (2):1–4.

Ledesma-Vázquez, J., A. Y. Montiel-Boehringer, D. Backus, M. Johnson, and V. Z. Fernandez-Díaz. 2007. Armored mud balls in tidal environments, Pliocene in the Gulf of California. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 8:235–238.

Lee, J., M. Miller, R. Crippen, B. Hacker, and J. Ledesma-Vázquez. 1996. Middle Miocene extension in the Gulf extensional province, Baja California: evidence from the southern Sierra Juárez. Geological Society of America Bulletin 108:505–525.

Lee, R.E. 2008. Phycology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Lehner, C. E. 1979. A latitudinal gradient analysis of rocky shore fishes of the eastern Pacific. Ph.D. dissert., University of Arizona, Tucson. 311 pp.

Leis, J. M. 1984. Larval fish dispersal and the East Pacific Barrier. Studies in Tropical Oceanography 19 (2):181–192.

León de la Luz, J. L., R. Coria-Benet, and J. Cansino. 1995. XI Reserva de la Bíosfera El Vizcaíno, Baja California Sur. Serie Listados Florísticos de México, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. 29 pp.

León-Portilla, M. 1989. Loreto, Capital de las Californias. Las cartas fundacionales de Juan María de Salvatierra . Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Centro Cultural Tijuana, FONATUR, México, D.F.

Leopold, A. 1966. A Sand County Almanac with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River. Oxford University Press, New York.

Lepley, L. K., S. P. von der Haar, J. R. Hendrickson, and G. Calderon-Riverol. 1975. Circulation in the northern Gulf of California from orbital photographs and ship investigations. Ciencias Marinas 2 (2):86–93.

Leslie, H. M., M. Schlüter, R. Cudney-Bueno and S. A. Levin. 2009. Modeling responses of coupled social–ecological systems of the Gulf of California to anthropogenic and natural perturbations. Ecological Research [Ecological Society of Japan] , in press.

Lewis, L. A.and R. M. McCourt. 2004. Green algae and the origin of land plants. American Journal of Botany 91:1535–1556.

Libbey, L. K. and M. E. Johnson. 1997. Upper Pleistocene rocky shores and intertidal biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur, México). Journal of Coastal Research 13:216–225.

Libes, S. M. 1992. An introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry . Wiley, New York. 734 pp.

Lindquist, D. G. 1980. Aspects of the polychromatism in populations of the Gulf of California browncheek blenny, Acanthemblemaria crockeri (Blennioidea: Chaenopsidae). Copeia 1980:137–141.

———. 1985. Depth zonation, microhabitat, and morphology of three species of Acanthemblemaria (Pisces: Blennioidea) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 6:329–344.

Lindsay, G. E. 1962. The Belvedere expedition to the Gulf of California. Transactions, San Diego Society of Natural History 13 (1):144.

———. 1964. Sea of Cortez expedition of the California Academy of Academy of Sciences, June 20-July 4, 1964. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 30 (11):211–242.

———. 1966. The Gulf islands expedition of 1966. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 30 (16):309–355.

———. 1970. Some natural values of Baja California. Pacific Discovery 23 (2):1–10.

Link, J. S. 2002. What does ecosystem-based fisheries management mean? Fisheries 27 (4):21.

Littler, D. S., and M. M. Littler. 2000. Caribbean Reef Plants. OffShore Graphics, Washington, D.C. 542 pp.

———. 2003. South Pacific Reef Plants . OffShore Graphics, Washington, D.C. 331 pp.

Lively, C. M., P. T. Raimondi, and L. F. Delph. 1993. Intertidal community structure: space-time interactions in the northern Gulf of California. Ecological Society of America 74 (1):162–173.

Lluch-Belda, D., D. B. Lluch-Cota, and S. E. Lluch-Cota. 2003. Baja California's biological transition zones: refuges for the California sardine. Journal of Oceanography 59 (4):503–513.

Lluch-Belda, D., B. F. J. Magallón, and R. A. Schartzlose. 1986. Large fluctuations in sardine fishery in the Gulf of California: possible causes. CalCOFI Report 37:201–208.

Lluch-Cota, S. E. 2000. Coastal upwelling in the eastern Gulf of California. Oceanologica Acta 23:731–740.

Lluch-Cota, S. E., E. A. Aragón-Noriega, F. Arreguín-Sánchez, D. Aurioles-Gamboa, J. J. Bautista-Romero, R. C. Brusca, R. Cervantes-Duarte, R. Cortés-Altamirano, P. Del-Monte-Luna, A. Esquivel-Herrera, H. Herrara-Cervantes, M. Kahru, M. Lavín, d. Lluch-Belda, D. B. Lluch-Cota, J. López-Martinez, S. G. Marinone, M. O. Nevárez-Martinez, S. Ortega-Garcia, E. Palacios-Castro, A. Parés-Sierra, G. Ponce-Diaz, M. Ramírez-Rodriguez, C. A. Salinas-Zavala, R. A. Schwartzlose and a. P. Sierra-Beltrán. 2007. The Gulf of California: Review of Ecosystem Status and Sustainability Challenges. Progress in Oceanography 73: 1–26.

Lluch-Cota, S. E., D. B. Lluch-Cota, D. Lluch-Belda, M. O. Nevárez-Martínez, A. Parés-Sierra, and S. Hernández-Váquez. 1999. Variability of sardine catch as related to enrichment, concentration, and retention processes in the central Gulf of California. CalCOFI Reports 40:184–190.

Longinos Martínez, José. 1792. Diario (notes and observations of the Royal Botanical Expedition to Antigua and Alta California, published in Spanish as Diario de las expediciones a las Californias de José Longinos ; Serie Textos Clásicos, Editorial Doce Calles, 1994; Madrid; and printed in English as Journal of José Longinos Martínez: Notes and observations of the naturalist of the botanical expedition in Old and New California and the south coast 1791–1792 ; John Howell Books, 1961; San Francisco.

López, M. and J. García. 2003. Moored observations in the northern Gulf of California: A strong bottom current. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, No. C2, 3048, DOI: 10.1029/2002JC001492.

López-Castro, M. C., R. Carmona, and W. J. Nichols. 2004. Nesting characteristics of the olive Ridley turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea ) in Cabo Pulmo, southern Baja California. Marine Biology 145:811–820.

López- Mendilaharsu , M., S. C. Gardner , J. A. Seminoff, and R. Riosmena-Rodríguez. 2003. Feeding ecology of the East Pacific green turtle ( Chelonia mydas agassizii ) in Bahía Magdalena, B.C.S ., Mexico. Pp. 219–220 in J. A . Seminoff (comp.), Proceedings of the Twenty - second Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation , Miami, Florida.

———. 2005. Identifying critical foraging habitats of the green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) along the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 15:259–269.

Love, M. S., C. W. Mecklenburg, T. A. Mecklenburg, and L. K. Thorsteinson. 2005. Resource Inventory of Marine and Estuarine Fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a Checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. U. S. Department of Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Seattle, Washington. 276 pp.

Love, M. S., M. Yoklavich, and L. Thorsteinson. 2002. The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 405 pp.

Lumholtz, C. 1912. New Trails in Mexico. T. Fisher Unwin, London (Reprint 1971, Rio Grande Press Glorieta, NM.

Lyle, M. and G. E. Ness. 1990. The opening of the southern Gulf of California. Pp. 403–423 in J. P. Dauphin and B. R. Simoneit (eds.), The Gulf and Pensinsula Province of the Californias. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47.

Lynch, D. J., T. E. Musselman, J. T. Gutman, and P. J. Patchett. 1993. Isotopic evidence for the origin of Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the Pinacate volcanic field, northwestern Mexico. Lithos 29:295–302.

Macleod, C. D., W. F. Perrin, R. Pitman, J. Barlow, L. Balance, A. Dámico, T. Gerrodette, G. Joyce, K. D. Mullin, D. L. Palka, and G. T. Waring. 2006. Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7 (3):271–286.

Macpherson, E. 2002. Large-scale species-richness gradients in the Atlantic Ocean. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 269:1715–1720.

Macpherson, E., P. A. Hastings, and D. R. Robertson. In press. Macroecology of marine fishes. In Witman, J. D., and K. Roy (eds.), Marine Macroecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Magallón-Barajas, F. J. 1987. The Pacific shrimp fishery of Mexico. CalCOFI Report 28:43–52.

Maggs, C. A. 1983. A phenological study of two maerl beds in Galway Bay, Ireland. Ph.D. thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 385 pp.

Mailliard, J. 1923. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The birds. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 12:443–456.

Maluf, L. Y. 1983. Physical oceanography. Pp. 26–45 in T. J. Case and M. L. Cody (eds.), Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortez. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA.

Mangels, K. F., and T. Gerrodette. 1994. Report of cetacean sightings during a marine mammal survey in the eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California aboard the NOAA ships Mc Arthur and David Starr Jordan July 28-November 6, 1993. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-211. 88 pp.

Montanucci, R. R. 2004. Geographic variation in Phrynosoma coronatum : further evidence for a peninsular archipelago. Herpetologica 60(1): 117-139.

Manzano-Fischer, P., G. Ceballos, R. List, and J.-L. E. Cartron. 2006. Avian diversity in a priority area for conservation in North America: the Janos–Casas Grandes Prairie Dog Complex and adjacent habitats in northwestern Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:3801–3825.

Maravilla, C. M. and J. P. Gallo R. 2000. Familia Otariidae. Pp. 775–780 in S. T. Alvarez-Castañeda and J. L. Patton (eds.), Mamíferos del Noroeste de México II. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C, La Paz, Baja California Sur. 873 pp.

Maravilla, C. M. and M. Lowry. 1999. Incipient breeding colony of Guadalupe fur seals at Isla San Benito del Este, Baja California, Mexico. Marine Mammal Science, 15:239–241.

Marine Mammal Commission. 2007. Annual Report to the Congress 2006. 4340 East-West Highway, Room 905, Bethesda, MD 20814. 200 pp.

Marinone, S. G. 2003. A three dimensional model of the mean and seasonal circulation of the Gulf of California. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (C10):3325.

Marinone, S. G. and M. F. Lavín. 2003. Residual flow and mixing in the large islands region of the central Gulf of California. Pp. 213–236 in O. U. Velasco Fuentes, J. Sheinbaum, and J. L. Ochoa de la Torre (eds.), Nonlinear Processes in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

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