Humans now play a major role in altering Earth and its biota. Finding ways to ameliorate
human impacts on biodiversity and to sustain and restore the ecosystem services on which …

Hydrological and bioclimatic processes that lead to drought may stress plants and wildlife,
restructure plant community type and architecture, increase monotypic stands and bare …

In this article, I analyze the “countdown,” a popular rhetorical trope of contemporary
discourses of environmental and cultural crisis. Drawing on fieldwork in a Cucapá village in …

The Greater Sonoran Ecoregion (GSE), spanning the US-Mexico border between Arizona
and Sonora, faces myriad biophysical and social challenges to maintaining long-term socio …

Few places in the world can claim such a diversity of species as the Gulf of California (Sea of
Cortez), with its 6,000 recorded animal species estimated to be half the number actually …

Wetlands provide critical habitat for birds and endangered species, and can be influenced
by shifts in water availability and land use. The Landsat image archive can help both …

Bilateral governance of transboundary water resources between the U nited S tates and M
exico is in flux today. Historically, the I nternational B oundary and W ater C ommission …

The delta of the Colorado River in Mexico supports a rich mix of estuarine, wetland and
riparian ecosystems that provide habitat for over 350 species of birds as well as fish, marine …

Dam construction and water diversions along the Colorado River during the twentieth
century have altered the downstream estuarine ecosystem. Although it is clear that the …

The delta of the Colorado River in Mexico supports about a million hectares of riparian,
marsh and estuarine habitats of international importance. Some of these habitats depend on …