Reports and Journal Articles
Bi-National Conference
September 19-23, 1994
Tucson, Arizona
This conference brought together scientists and managers from government, universities, and private organizations to examine the biological diversity and management challenges of the… See more
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The Apachian-Madrean region is a zone of confluence and geographic termini of species and floras from the north and the south. Lower and intermediate elevations support many taxa of tropical plants and animals that are at their northernmost limits.… See more
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In southern Arizona and northern Sonora, the neotropical vine snake (Oxybelis aeneus) lives in temperate oak woodland, canyon riparian woodland, desert-grassland, and pine-oak woodland communities at 1160 to 1650 m elevation. Perennial plants in an… See more
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El Buho Manchado Mexicano (Strix occidentalis lucida) se distribuye en Sonora bajo condiciones adecuadas en canadas y elevaciones medias en montanas, can bosques de pino, pino-encino y encino-pino. Actualmente, dentro del… See more
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Scenically spectacular, the Sierra Madre Occidental is challenging to researchers in ecology as well as in geology. Like mountain gradients elsewhere in tropical Mexico, it offers a variety of habitats and species. In this section we will introduce… See more
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The pine-oak woodlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico extend for about 1100 km from the northern end ofthe Sonoran-Chihuahuan border southward to the region ofthe common borders of Zacatecas, Nayarit, and Jalisco. On the eastern side of… See more
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The Arizona hedgehog cactus, Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. arizonicus, was officially given Endangered status by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 on October 25, 1979 (44 FR 61556). The taxon as… See more
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The Rio Yaqui drainage basin of northwestern Mexico comprises about 73,000 km of the most inaccessible and rugged terrain in western North America (Blásquez 1959). An average annual discharge of almost 2,800 ha2 makes the Rio Yaqui one of the major… See more
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On May 3, 1887, a major earthquake shook much of the southwest United States and Mexico, an area of nearly two million square kilometers. This seismic event, with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 (DuBois and Sbar, in press), caused 51 deaths in… See more
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Held in Tucson, Arizona.
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The material offered in this symposium is both urgently needed and late in coming. Only in very recent years have scientists and managers begun to shift their perspective on riverine systems away from localized,… See more
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The Monte Desert of Argentina and the Sonoran Desert of North America are very similar in most aspects of their physical environments. The origins and the degree of affinity of thefaunas of three classes of vertebrates in the two deserts are… See more
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Marshall, C. J. and J. K. Liebherr. 1976. Cladistic Biogeography of the Mexican Transition Zone. Journal of Biogeography 27(1): 203-216.
Biogeographic relationships among nine montane areas of endemism across the transition zone between North and… See more
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