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A Bibliography for the Gulf of California (through 2008)

Compiled by R. C. Brusca

Nabhan, G. P. 2002. Cultural dispersal of plants and reptiles. Pp. 407–416 in T. Case, M. Cody, and E. Ezcurra (eds.), A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortés . Oxford University Press, New York.

Nabhan, G. P. 2003. Singing the Turtles to Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Nagy, E. A. 2000. Paleomagnetism and extensional deformation at the western margin of the Gulf Extensional Province, Puertecitos Volcanic Province, Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin 112 (6):857–870.

Nakashima, E. 1916. Notes on the totuava ( Cynoscion macdonaldi Gilbert). Copeia 37:85–86.

Nava, J. M. and L. T. Findley. 1994. Impact of the shrimp fishery on faunal diversity and stability in the upper Gulf of California, with special emphasis on the vaquita and totoaba. Project final report to Conservation International-Mexico, Gulf of California Program, Guaymas, Sonora. 60 pp.

Nava-Romo, J. M. 1994. Impactos a corto y largo plazo en la diversidad y otras características ecológicas de la comunidad béntico-demersal capturada por la pesquería de camarón en el norte del alto Golfo de California, México. Master's thesis, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey-Campus Guaymas, Sonora, México. 84 pp.

Navarro S. C. 2003a. Crocodylus acutus in Sonora, Mexico. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter, IUCN /The World Conservation Union-Species Survival Commission 22 (1):21.

———. 2003b. Abundance, habitat use and conservation of the American crocodile in Sinaloa. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter, IUCN/The World Conservation Union-Species Survival Commission 22 (2):22–23.

Navarro-Olache, L. F., M. F. Lavín, L. G. Alvarez-Sánchez, and A. Zirino. 2004. Internal structure of SST features in the central Gulf of California. Deep-Sea Research II, 51:673–687.

Neat, F. C. 2001. Male parasitic spawning in two species of triplefin blenny (Tripterygiidae): contasts in demography, behaviour and gonadal characteristics. Environmental Biology of Fishes 61:57–64.

Nelson, C. S. 1988. An introductory perspective on non-tropical shelf carbonates. Sedimentary Geology 60:3–12.

Nelson, E. W. 1899. Natural history of the Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. Birds of the Tres Marias Islands. North American Fauna 14:21–62.

Neuhaus, J. R. 1989. Volcanic and nonmarine stratigraphy of southwest isla Tiburón, Gulf of California, Mexico. Master's thesis, San Diego State University, CA. 170 pp.

Nevárez-Martínez, M. O., A. Hernández-Herrera, E. Morales-Bojórquez, A. Balmori-Ramírez, M. A. Cisneros-Mata, and R. Morales-Azpeitia. 2000. Biomass and distribution of jumbo squid ( Dosidicus gigas d'Orgigny, 1835) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Fisheries Research 49:129–140.

Nichols, W. J. 2003a. Biology and conservation of the sea turtles of Baja California. Ph.D. dissert. University of Arizona, Tucson.

———. 2003b. Sinks, sewers, and speed bumps: the impact of marine development on sea turtles in Baja California, Mexico. Pp. 17–18 in J. A. Seminoff (comp.), Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-503.

Nichols, W. J., H. Aridjis, A. Hernandez, B. Machovina, and J. Villavicencio. 2002. Black market sea turtle trade in the Californias. Unpublished Wildcoast Report. Davenport, California.

Nichols, W. J., K. E. Bird, and S. Garcia. 2002. Community-based research and its application to sea turtle conservation in Bahía Magdalena, B.C.S, Mexico. Marine Turtle Newsletter 89:4–7.

Nichols, W. J., L. Brooks, M. Lopez and J. A. Seminoff. 2001. Record of pelagic east Pacific green turtles associated with Macrocystis mats near Baja California Sur, Mexico. Marine Turtle Newsletter 93:10–11.

Nichols, W. J., A. Resendiz, J. A. Seminoff, and B. Resendiz. 2000. Transpacific loggerhead turtle migration monitored with satellite telemetry. Bulletin of Marine Science 67:937–947.

Nichols, W. J. and C. Safina. 2004. Case Study: Lunch with a turtle poacher. Conservation in Practice 5(4): 30-36.

Nichols, W. J. and J. A. Seminoff. 1994. Sea Turtles in the Gulf of California: Where have they gone? Noticias de Centro de Estudios de Desiertos y Oceanos 6:21–33.

Nichols, W. J., J. A. Seminoff, A. Resendiz, P. Dutton and F. A. Abreu-Grobois. 1999. Using molecular genetics and biotelemetry to study life history and long distance movement: A tale of two turtles. Pp. 102–103 in F. A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millan and L. Sarti-Martínez (comps.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFC-436.

Norris, J. 1981. Articulated coralline algae of the Gulf of California . Smithsonian Press, Washington, D.C.

Norris, J. N. and I. A. Abbott, I.A. 1972. Some new records of marine algae from the R/V Proteus cruise to British Columbia. Syesis 5: 87–94.

Norris, J. N. and K. E. Bucher. 1976. New records of marine algae from the 1974 R/V Dolphin Cruise. Botany 34: 1–22.

Norris, K. S. and W. N. McFarland. 1958. A new harbor porpoise of the genus Phocoena from the Gulf of California. Journal of Mammalogy 42:22–39.

Norris, K. S., Villa R., B., Nichols, G., Wursig, B., and K. Miller. 1983. Lagoon entrance and other aggregations of gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus. Pp. 259–293 in R. Payne (ed.), Behavior and Communication of Whales. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

Novacek, M. J., I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca, J. J. Flynn, A. R. Wyss, and M.Norell. 1991. Wasatchian (early Eocene) mammals and other vertebrates from Baja California, Mexico: the Lomas Las Tetas de Cabra Formation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 208:1–88.

Odell, D. K. and K. M. McClune. 1999. False killer whale– Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846). Pp. 213–243 in S. H. Ridway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of Marine Mammals. Vol. 6. Academic Press, London. 486 pp.

O'Donnell, J. 1974. Green turtle fishery in Baja California waters: history and prospect. Master's thesis, California State University, Northridge. 119 pp.

Olguin-Mena, M. 1990. Las tortugas marinas en la costa oriental de Baja California y costa Occidental de Baja California Sur, México. Master's thesis, Universidad Autonoma Baja California Sur, La Paz, México. 74 pp.

Oliverio, M. 2003. The Mediterranean mollusks: the best known malacofauna of the world . . . so far. Biogeographia 24:195–208.

Olson, H. C., 1990. Early and middle Miocene foraminiferal paleoenvironments, southeastern San Joaquin Basin, California. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 20 (4):289–311.

Orr, R. T. 1972. Marine Mammals of California. University of California Press, Berkley, CA.

Ortíz de Montellano, G. P. 1987. Impacto de la pesca de arrastre sobre la población juvenil de Totoaba macdonaldi . Reporte Técnico No. 7, Centro de Investigación y Desarrrollo de Sonora (CIDESON) [now IMADES], Gobierno de Sonora, Hermosillo.

Oskin, M. and J. Stock. 2003. Marine incursion synchronous with plate boundary localization in the Gulf of California. Geology 31 (1):23–26.

Pacheco, M., A. Martín-Barajas, W. Eldres, J. M. Espinosa-Cardeña, J. Belenes, and A. Segura. 2006. Stratigraphy and structure of the Altar basin of NW Sonora: implications for the history of the Colorado River delta and the Salton Trough. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 23 (1):1–22.

Pacheco-Ruíz, I., and J. A. Zertuche-González. 1996a. Green algae (Chlorophyta) from Bahía de Los Angeles, Gulf of California, Mexico. Botanica Marina 39:431–433.

———. 1996b. The commercially valuable seaweeds of the Gulf of California. Botanica Marina 1:201–206.

———. 1996c. Brown algae (Phaeophyta) from Bahía de los Angeles, Gulf of California, Mexico. Hydrobiologica 326–327: 169–172.

———. 1999. Populaiton strucure and reproduction of the carrageenophyte Chondracanthus pectinatus in the Gulf of California. Hydrobiologia 398–399: 159–166.

———. 2002. Red algae (Rhodophyta) from Bahía de Los Angeles, Gulf of California, Mexico. Botanica Marina 45(5): 465–470.

Pacheco-Ruíz, I., J. A. Zertuche-González, F. Arellano-Carbajal, A. Chee-Barragán, and F. Correa-Díaz. 1999 Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis beds along the west coast of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Hydrobiologia 398/399:509–514.

Pacheco-Ruíz, I., J. A. Zertuche-González, A. Cabello-Pasini and B. H. Brinhuis. 1992. Growth response and seasonal biomass variation of Gigartina pectinata Dawson (Rhodophyta) in the Gulf of California. Journal Experimental Marie Biology and Ecology 157(2): 263–274.

Pacheco-Ruíz, I., J. A. Zertuche-González, A. Chee-Barragan and E. Arroyo-Ortega. 2002. Biomass and potential commercial utilization of Ulva lactuca (Chlorophyta, Ulvaceae) beds along the northwest coast of the Gulf of California. Phycologia 41(2): 199–201.

Paheco-Ruíz, I., J. A. Zertuche-González, A. Chee-Barragán, and R. Blanco-Betancourt. 1998. Distribution and quantification of Sargassum beds along the west coast of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Botanica Marina 41:203–208.

Pacheco-Ruíz, I., J. A. Zertuche-González, A. Chee-Barragan, and R. Blanco-Betancourt. 1998a. Distribution and quantification of Sargassum beds along the West Coast of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Oceanographic Literature Review 45, no. 9: 1630.

Pacheco-Ruíz, I., J. A. Zertuche-González, F. Correa-Diaz, F. Arellano-Carbajal and A. Chee-Barragan. 1999. Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis beds along the west coast of the Gulf of Californa, Mexico. Hydrobiologia. 398–399: 509–514.

Páez-Osuna, F., A. Garcia, F. Flores-Verdugo, L. P. Lyle-Fritch, R. Alonso-Rodríguez, A. Roque, and A. C. Ruíz-Fernández. 2003. Shrimp aquaculture development and the environment in the Gulf of California ecoregion. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46:806–816.

Páez-Osuna, F., S. R. Guerrero-Galván, A. C. Ruíz-Fernández, and R. Espinoza-Angulo. 1997. Fluxes and mass balances of nutrients in a semi-intensive shrimp farm in north-western Mexico. Marine Pollution Bulletin 34 (5):290–297.

Páez-Osuna, F. and A. C. Ruíz-Fernández. 2005. Environmental load of nitrogen and phosphorus from extensive, semi-intensive and intensive shrimp farms in the Gulf of California ecoregion. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 74: 681-688.

Palacios, E. and E. Mellink. 1992. Breeding bird records from Montague Island, northern Gulf of California. Western Birds 23:41–44.

———. 1996. Status of the least tern in the Gulf of California. Journal of Field Ornithology 67:48–58.

———. 2000. Nesting water birds on Islas San Martín and Todos Santos, Baja California. Western Birds 31:184–189.

Palacios, E., E. Beier, M. F. Lavín, and P. Ripa. 2002. The effect of the seasonal variation of stratification on the circulation of the northern Gulf of California. Journal of Physical Oceanography 32:705–728.

Paladino, F. V., M. P. O'Connor, and J. R. Spotila. 1990. Metabolism of leatherback turtles: gigantothermy and thermoregulation of dinosaurs. Nature 344:858–860.

Pansisni, M. and C. Longo. 2003. A review of the Mediterranean Sea sponge biogeography with, in appendix, a list of the demosponges hitherto recorded from this sea. Biogeographia 24:59–90.

Parker, R. H. 1964. Zoogeography and ecology of some macroinvertebrates, particularly mollusks, in the Gulf of California and the continental slope off Mexico. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn 126:1–178.

Parsons, J. J. 1962. The Green Turtle and Man. University of Florida Press, Gainesville. 126 pp.

Patten, D. R. and L. T. Findley. 1970. Observations and records of Myotis ( Pizonyx ) vivesi Menegeaux (Chiroptera: Vespertiliontidae). Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum Natural History 183:1–9.

Paul-Chavez, L., and R. Riosmena-Rodríguez. 2000. Floristic and biogeographical trends in seaweed assemblages from a subtropical insular island complex in the Gulf of California. Pacific Science 54:137–147.

Payri, C. E. and G. Cabioch. 2004. The systematics and significance of coralline red algae in the rhodolith sequence of the Amédée 4 drill core (Southwest New Caledonia). Palaeo 204:187–204.

Peckham, S. H. and W. J. Nichols. 2003. Why did the turtle cross the ocean? Pelagic red crabs and loggerhead turtles along the Baja California coast. Pp. 47–48 in J. A. Seminoff (comp.), Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-503.

Pegau, W. S., E. Boss, and A. Martínez. 2002. Ocean color observations of eddies during the summer in the Gulf of California. Geophysical Research Letters 29 (9):10.1029/2001GL014076.

Peltier, W. R. 2002. On eustatic sea level history: last glacial maximum to Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 377-396.

Peresbarbosa, E., and E. Mellink. 1994. More records of breeding birds from Montague Isand, norhtern Gulf of California. Wetern Birds 25:201–202.

———. 2001. Nesting waterbirds of Isla Montague, northern Gulf of Californa, Mexico. Loss of eggs due to predation and flooding, 1993–1994. Waterbirds 24:265–271.

Pérez-España, H., F. Galván-Magaña, and L. A. Abitia-Cárdenas. 1996. Variaciones temporales y espaciales en la estructura de la comunidad de peces de arrecifes rocosos del suroeste del Golfo de California, México [Temporal and spatial variations in the structure of the rocky reef fish community of the southwest Gulf of California, Mexico]. Ciencias Marinas 22 (3):273–294.

Pérez-Jiménez, J. C., O. Sosa-Nishizaki, and J. L. Castillo-Geniz. 2005. A new eastern North Pacific smoothhound shark (genus Mustelus , family Triakidae) from the Gulf of California. Copeia 2005 (4):834–845.

Pérez-Mellado, J., and L. T. Findley. 1985. Evaluación de la ictiofauna acompañante del camarón capturado en las costas de Sonora y norte de Sinaloa, México. Pp. 201–254 in A. Yañéz-Arancibia (ed.), Recursos Potentiales de México: La Pesca Acompañante del Camarón. Programa Universitario de Alimentos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Instituto Nacional de la Pesca. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F. 748 pp.

Perrin, W. F. 1998. Stenella longirostris . Mammal Species 599:1–7.

———. 2002. Pantropical spotted dolphin. Pp. 865–867 in W. F. Perrin, B. Wursig and J. G. M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 1414 pp.

Perrin, W. F., C. E. Wilson, and F. I. Archer. 1994. Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833). Pp. 261–288 in S. H. Ridway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of Marine Mammals. Vol. 5. Academic Press, London. 442 pp.

PESCA. 1990. XXV Años de Investigación, Conservación, y Protección de la Tortuga Marina. Manufactura Lusag, Mexico, D.F.

Pesenti, C. and J. W. Nichols. 2002. Signs of Success: Fourth Annual Meeting of the Sea Turtle Conservation Network of the Californias (Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias). Marine Turtle Newsletter 97:14–16.

Petersen, C. W. 1987. Reproductive behaviour and gender allocation in Serranus fasciatus , a hermpahroditic reef fish. Animal Behaviour 35:1601–1614.

———. 1988. Male mating success, sexual size dimorphism, and site fidelity in two species of Malacoctenus (Labrisomidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 21:173–183.

———. 1989. Females prefer mating males in the carmine triplefin, Axoclinus carminalis , a paternal brood guarder. Environmental Biology of Fishes 26:213–221.

Petersen, C. W. and K. Marchetti. 1989. Filial cannibalism in the Cortez damselfish Stegastes rectifraenum . Evolution 43:158–168.

Pfeiler, E. 1986. Towards an explanation of the development strategy in leptocephalous larvae of marine fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 15:3–13.

Pfeiler, E., L. A. Hurtado, L. L. Knowles, J. Torre-Cosío, L. Bourillón-Moreno, J. F. Márquez-Farías, G. Montemayor-López. 2005. Population genetics of the swimming crab Callinectes bellicosus (Brachyura: Portunidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Mar. Biol. 146, 559 – 569.

Pfeiler, E. and A. Luna. 1984. Changes in biochemical composition and energy utilization during metamorphosis of leptocephalous larvae of the bonefish ( Albula ). Environmental Biology of Fishes 10:243–251.

Phillips, R. P. 1964. Marine geology in the Gulf of California. Ph.D. Dissert., (Univeristy Microfilms Inc., No. 64–9950), University of California, San Diego. 250 pp.

Phillips, S. J., and P. W. Comus (eds.). 2000. A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA.

Pitman, R. L. 1990. Pelagic distribution and biology of sea turtles in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Pp. 143–148 in T. H. Richardson, J. I. Richardson, and M. Donnelly (comps.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFC-278.

Pitman, R. L., A. Aguayo L., and J. Urbán R. 1987. Observations of an unidentified Beaked Whale in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Marine Mammal Science 3 (4):345–352.

Pitman, R. L. and M. S. Lynn. 2001. Biological observations of an unidentified mesoplodont whale in the eastern tropical Pacific and probable identity: Mesoplodon peruvianus. Marine Mammal Science 17:648–657.

Pitt, J., D. Luecke, M. Cohen, E. Glenn, and C. Valdés-Casillas. 2000. Two nations, one river: managing ecosystem conservation in the Colorado River Delta. Natural Resources Journal 40:819–864.

Plascencia-González, H. G. 1993. Contribución al conocimiento de las comunidades de peces asociadas a los fondos blandos de la plataforma continental del sur de Sinaloa (Proyecto SIPCO). Tesis profesional [bachelor's thesis], Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 200 pp.

Polis, G. A., S. D. Hurd, C. T. Jackson, and F. Sánchez-Piñero. 1997. El Niño effects on the dynamics and control of an island ecosystem in the Gulf of California. Ecology 78 (6):1884–1897.

Pomeroy, R. S., P. McConney, and R. Mahon. 2004. Comparative analysis of coastal resource co-management in the Caribbean. Ocean and Coastal Management 47:429–447.

Poole, A. F., R. O. Bierregaard, and M. S. Martell. 2002. Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). In A. F. Poole and F. Gill (eds.), The Birds of North America, No. 683. The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia.

Poore, G. C. B. 1984. Colanthura, Califanthura, Cruranthura and Cruregens , related genera of the Paranthuridae (Crustacea: Isopoda). Journal of Natural History 18:697–715.

Potin, P., J.-Y. Floc'h, C. Augris, and J. Cabioch. 1990. Annual growth rates of the calcareous red alga Lithothamnion coralliodes (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Bay of Brest, France. Hydrobiologia 204/205:263–267.

Prescott, R. and R. Cudney-Bueno. 2008. Mobile ‘reefs' in the northeastern Gulf of California: aggregations of black murex snails Hexaplex nigritus as habitat for invertebrates. Marine Ecology Progress Series 367: 185-192.

Prescott, R., V. Koch, C. Yingling and C. Ruiz Verdugo. 2007. Settlement of Pacific calico scallop larvae ( Argopecten ventricosus , Sowerby II, 1842) on their predator, the black murex snail ( Hexaplex nigritus , Philippi, 1845). Journal of Shellfish Research 26(4): 1065-1070.

Present, T. M. 1987. Genetic differentiation of disjunct Gulf of California and Pacific coast populations of Hypsoblennius jenkinsi. Copeia 1987 (4):1010–1024.

Presti, S., A. Resendiz, A. Sollod, and J. A. Seminoff. 1999. Mercury presence in the scutes of black sea turtles, Chelonia mydas agassizii , in the Gulf of California. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3:531–533.

Pritchard, P. C. H. 1982. Nesting of the leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea in Pacific Mexico, with a new estimate of the world population status. Copeia 1982:741–747.

———. 1999. Status of the black turtle. Conservation Biology 13:1000-1003

C. H. and P. Trebbau. 1984. Turtles of Venezuela. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 403 pp.

PROFEPA (Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente)–SEMARNAP (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca). 1995. Mortandad de mamíferos y aves marinas en el alto Golfo de California. Informe final. 40 pp.

Pronzato, R. 2003. Mediterranean sponge fauna: a biological, historical and cultural heritae. Biogeographia 24:91–99.

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