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Contents
Foreword
Preface
SECTION 1 ENGAGING THE BATTLE
1 The Battle to Conserve Aquatic Species in Lands of Water Scarcity Continues
2 The Protagonists
3 Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of North American Desert Fishes
4 Living with Aliens: Nonnative Fishes in the American Southwest
5 Current Conservation Status of Some Freshwater Species and Their Habitats in México
6 Ghosts of Our Making: Extinct Aquatic Species of the North American Desert Region
SECTION 2 RACING TO COLLAPSE
7 Running on Empty: Southwestern Water Supplies and Climate Change
8 Mining Hidden Waters: Groundwater Depletion, Aquatic Habitat Degradation, and Loss of Fish Diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion of Texas
9 Southwestern Fish and Aquatic Systems: The Climate Challenge
10 Novel Drought Regimes Restructure Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in Arid-Land Streams
11 The Exotic Dilemma: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Recover Native Colorado River Basin Fishes
SECTION 3 IMPROVING THE ODDS
12 Applying Endangered Species Act Protections to Desert Fishes: Assessment and Opportunities
13 The Value of Specimen Collections for Conserving Biodiversity
14 Conservation Genetics of Desert Fishes in the Genomics Age
15 Long-Term Monitoring of a Desert Fish Assemblage in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona
16 Human Impacts on the Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Restoration Potential of Southwestern Rivers
17 Conservation and Ecological Rehabilitation of North American Desert Spring Ecosystems
SECTION 4 SEARCHING FOR RECOVERY
18 Oases: Finding Hidden Biodiversity Gems in the Southern Sonoran Desert
19 Recent Discoveries and Conservation of Catfishes, Genus Ictalurus, in México
20 Ecology, Politics, and Conservation of Gila Trout
21 Large-River Fish Conservation in the Colorado River Basin: Progress and Challenges with Razorback Sucker
22 Assisting Recovery: Intensive Interventions to Conserve Native Fishes of Desert Springs and Wetlands
23 Restoration of Aquatic Habitats and Native Fishes in the Desert: Some Successes in Western North America
SECTION 5 EXPLORING OUR FUTURE
24 The Devils Hole Pupfish: Science in a Time of Crises
25 Politics, Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures
26 Searching for Common Ground between Life and Extinction
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Contents
Foreword
Preface
SECTION 1 ENGAGING THE BATTLE
1 The Battle to Conserve Aquatic Species in Lands of Water Scarcity Continues
2 The Protagonists
3 Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of North American Desert Fishes
4 Living with Aliens: Nonnative Fishes in the American Southwest
5 Current Conservation Status of Some Freshwater Species and Their Habitats in México
6 Ghosts of Our Making: Extinct Aquatic Species of the North American Desert Region
SECTION 2 RACING TO COLLAPSE
7 Running on Empty: Southwestern Water Supplies and Climate Change
8 Mining Hidden Waters: Groundwater Depletion, Aquatic Habitat Degradation, and Loss of Fish Diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion of Texas
9 Southwestern Fish and Aquatic Systems: The Climate Challenge
10 Novel Drought Regimes Restructure Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in Arid-Land Streams
11 The Exotic Dilemma: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Recover Native Colorado River Basin Fishes
SECTION 3 IMPROVING THE ODDS
12 Applying Endangered Species Act Protections to Desert Fishes: Assessment and Opportunities
13 The Value of Specimen Collections for Conserving Biodiversity
14 Conservation Genetics of Desert Fishes in the Genomics Age
15 Long-Term Monitoring of a Desert Fish Assemblage in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona
16 Human Impacts on the Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Restoration Potential of Southwestern Rivers
17 Conservation and Ecological Rehabilitation of North American Desert Spring Ecosystems
SECTION 4 SEARCHING FOR RECOVERY
18 Oases: Finding Hidden Biodiversity Gems in the Southern Sonoran Desert
19 Recent Discoveries and Conservation of Catfishes, Genus Ictalurus, in México
20 Ecology, Politics, and Conservation of Gila Trout
21 Large-River Fish Conservation in the Colorado River Basin: Progress and Challenges with Razorback Sucker
22 Assisting Recovery: Intensive Interventions to Conserve Native Fishes of Desert Springs and Wetlands
23 Restoration of Aquatic Habitats and Native Fishes in the Desert: Some Successes in Western North America
SECTION 5 EXPLORING OUR FUTURE
24 The Devils Hole Pupfish: Science in a Time of Crises
25 Politics, Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures
26 Searching for Common Ground between Life and Extinction
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index