Dry Borders

Dry Borders
Author: Richard Stephen Felger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2007
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Part natural history, part call to conservation, and part love song, this evocative and informative excursion into the Sonoran Desert along the U.S.-Mexico border brings to life the beauty of a sparse and seductive terrain.

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico
Author: Jean-Luc E. Cartron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195156722

This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern Mexico, documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife. It should become the standard source document for the conservation status of species and ecosystems in this region, which is of unusual biological interest because of its high biodiversity and highly varied landscape and biological zonation.