Baja Reference List

The expedition travels with an excellent regional library.  A reader will be given to each student upon arrival in Baja. The reader and library are, in part, composed of the following:

Baja California Norte - Almanac: Detailed Topographic Maps. Las Vegas, Baja Almanac Publishers.

Baja California Sur - Almanac: Detailed Topographic Maps. Las Vegas, Baja Almanac Publishers.

Abbott, P. L. and R. G. Gastil (1979). Baja California Geology. San Diego, San Diego State University.

Alvarez-Cardenas, S., S. Gallina, et al. (2001). “The variables of physical habitat selection by the desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis weemsi) in the Sierra del Mechudo, Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Jouranl of Arid Environments 49(2): 357-374.

Anderson, B. T., J. O. Roads, et al. (2000). “Large-scale forcing of summetime monsoon surges over the Gulf of California and southwestern United States.” Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres 105(19): 24,455-24,467.

Arnold, B. A., Ed. (1957). Late Pleistocene and Recent Changes in Land Forms, Climate, and Archaeology in Central Baja California. University of California Publications in Geography. Berkeley.

Arreola-Robles, J. L. and J. F. Elorduy-Garay (2002). “Reef Fish Diversity in the Region of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Bulletin of Marine Science 70(1): 1-18.

Arriaga, L., S. Diaz, et al. (1994). “Conservation or Commercial Management of Temperate Forests of Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Conservation Biology 8(4): 1132-1140.

Aschmann, H. (1959). The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Bashan, Y., L. E. De-Bashan, et al. (2002). “Primary colonization of volcanic rocks by plants in arid Baja California, Mexico.” Plant Biology 4(3): 392-402.

Beckvar, N., R. Norris, et al. (1987). Keys to the Shells of Bahia La Choya, Sonora, Mexico. Paleoecology and Taphonomy of recent to Pleistocene Intertidal Deposits Gulf of California. K. W. Flessa, Paleontological Society. 2: 62-103.

Berger, B. (1998). Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

Blazquez, M. C. and R. Rodriguez-Estrella (2001). “Winter refuge characteristics of spiny-tailed iguanas, Ctenosaura hemilopha, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Journal of Arid Environments 49(3): 593-599.

Calambokdis, J., S. Cerchio, et al. (2001). “Movements and population structure of humpback whales in the North Pacific.” Marine Mammal Science 17(4): 769-794.

Choral (1973). Baja California: Vanished Missions, Lost Treasures, Strange Stories Tall and True. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press.

Costanza, R., H. Daly, et al. (2000). “Managing Our Environmental Portfolio.” Bioscience 50(2): 149-155.

Costo, R. and J. H. Costo (1987). The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. San Francisco, Indian Hisorian Press.

Cruz-Escalona, V. H., L. A. Abitia-Cardenas, et al. (2000). “Trophic interrelations of the three most abundant fish species from Laguna San Ignacia, Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Bulletin of Marine Science 66(2): 361-373.

Daessle, L. W. and D. W. Fischer (2001). “Marine minerals in the Mexican Pacific: Toward efficient resource management.” Marine Georesources and Geotechnology 19(3): 197-206.

Dedina, S. (2000). Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

Dimayuga, R. E. (1996). Medicina Tradicional y popular de Baja California Sur. La Paz, Universidad de Autonoma de Baja California Sur.

Escoto-Rodriquez, M. and S. H. Bullock (2002). “Long-term growth rates of cirio (Fouquieria columnaris), a giant succlulent of the Sonoran Desert in Baja California.” Journal of Arid Environments 50(4): 593-611.

Espino, G. d. l. L. and C. C. Martinez, Eds. (1994). Lagunas Costeras y el Litoral Mexicano. La Paz, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur.

Ezcurra, E. M. (1998). Conservation and Sustainable Use of
Natural Resources in Baja California:
An Overview. San Diego Dialogue’s Forum Fronterizo
policy luncheon series, San Diego, CA.

Frizzell, V., Ed. (1984). Geology of the Baja California Peninsula. Los Angeles, Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

Gomez-Pompa, A. and A. Kaus (1998). From prehispanic to future conservation alternatives: Lessons from Mexico. NAS Cooloquiem: Plants and Population: is there time?, Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences, UC Irvine.

Hale, H. (1980). Long Walk to Mulege, Pinkerton Publishing Co.

Hastings, R. M. and D. W. Fischer (2001). “Management priorities for Magdelena Bay, Baja California, Mexico.” Journal of Coastal Conservation 7(2): 193-202.

Higginbotham, P. and T. Higginbotham (1996). Backroad Baja: Maps, Logs, Trip Information. San Diego, Sunbelt Publications.

Jerez, L. C. (1996). Baja California: Ecology, Natural History & Resource Conservation, Pronatura.

Jessen, S. and N. Lerch (1999). “Baja to the Bering Sea - A North American Marine conservation initiative.” Environments 27(3): 67-89.

Johnson, W. W. (1972). Baja California. New York, Time-Life Books.

Karig, D. E. and W. Jensky (1972). “The Protogulf of California.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 17: 169-174.

Keeley, J. E. and C. J. Fotheringham (2001). “Historic fire regime in southern California shrublands.” Conservation Biology 15(6): 1536-1548.

Kerstitch, A. (1989). Sea of Cortez Marine Invertbrates: A Guide for the Pacific Coast, Mexico to Ecuador. Monterey, Sea Challengers.

Krings, A. (2000). “A phytogeographic characterization of the vine flora of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.” Journal of Biogeography 27(6): 1311-1319.

Krutch, J. W. (1961). The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.

Kulander, C. (1992). West Mexico From Sea to Sierra: A Travelers Handbook to the Baja California Peninsula & Mexico's West Coast. Romona, La Paz Publishing.

Larson, P. (1977). The Deserts of the Southwest. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books.

Ledesma-Vazquez, J. and M. E. Johnson (2001). “Miocene-Pleistocene tectono-sedimenatry evolution of Bahia Concepcion region, Baja California Sur (Mexico).” Sedimentary Geology 144: 83-96.

Lizarraga-Arciniega, R., C. M. Appendini-Albretchsen, et al. (2001). “Planning for beach erosion: A case study, Playas de Rosarito, B.C. Mexico.” Jouranl of Coastal Research 17(3): 636-644.

Luz, J. L. L. d. l., J. J. P. Navarro, et al. (2000). “A transitional xerophytic tropical plant community of the Cape Region, Baja California.” Journal of Vegetation Science 11(4): 555-564.

Mackintosh, G. (1990). Into a Desert Place: A 3000-Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California. New York, W.W.Norton.

Mahieux, S., Ed. (1998). Diagnostica Ambiental de Baja California Sur. La Paz, Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparaja.

Maloney, P. E. and D. M. Rizzo (2002). “Pathogens and insects in a pristine forest ecoystem: The Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja, Mexico.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32(3): 448-457.

Mayer, L. and K. R. Vincent (1999). “Active tectonics of the Loreto area, Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Geomorphology 27: 243-255.

McKibben, N. (1989). The Sea in the Desert: Explorers Guide to the Gulf of California Seaside. Tucson, Golden Puffer Press.

McLean, H., B.P. Hausback, and J.H. Knapp (1986). The geology of west-central Baja California Sur, Mexico, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin: 16.

Mercade, J. A., Ed. (1988). Bahia de Los Angeles. Educational Resource Series. Glendale, Glendale Community College.

Miller, T. and C. Hoffman (1987). The Baja Book III: Map Guide to Today's Baja California. Huntington Beach, Baja Trail Publications.

Minch, J., E. Minch, et al. (1998). Roadside Geology and Biology of Baja California. Mission Viejo, John Minch and Associates.

Monteros, R. L.-E. D. L. (2002). “Evaluating ecotourism in natural protected areas of La Paz Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico: ecotourism or nature-based tourism?” Biodiversity and Conservation 11: 1539-1550.

Morales-Bojorques, E., F. J. Guerrero-Escobedo, et al. (2001). “Population size and exploitation of giant squid (dosidicus gigas d'orbigny, 1835) in the gulf of California, Mexico.” Scientia Marina 65(1): 75-80.

Murillo, J. M. and D. S. Gorsline (2000). “Holocene and modern dune morphology for the Magdelena Coastal Plain and island, Baja California Sur, Mexico.” Journal of Coastal Research 16(3): 915-925.

Nava-Sanchez, E. H., G. D.S., et al. (2001). “The Baja California peninsula borderland: Structural and sedimentalogical characteristics.” Sedimentary Geology 144(1-2): 63-82.

Olvera, M. M. C. (1996). Historia de las Relaciones Hombre Naturaleza en Baja California Sur 1500-1940. La Paz, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur.

Ortega-Rubio, A., D. Lluch-Cota, et al. (2001). “Salt production at San Ignacio Lagoon: A sustainable development project?” International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 8(2): 155-165.

Peterson, W., and Michael Peterson (1996). Exploring Baja By RV. Berkeley, Wilderness Press.

Peterson, W. (1999). Diving & Snorkeling Baja California. Melbourne, Lonely Planet Publications.

Phillips, S. J. and P. W. Comus, Eds. (2000). A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. Tucson, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press.

Roberts, N. C. (1989). Baja California Plant Field Guide. La Jolla, Natural History Publishing Company.

Romero, R., A. Sandez, et al. (2001). “Energy consumption behaviour of a residential sector located in the Mexican arid zone: Mexicali, B.C.” Renewable Energy 24(3-4): 609-614.

Speck, S. (1995). Diving Baja California. Locust Valey, Aqua Quest Publications.

Stanton, J., D. K. Olson, et al. (2001). “The environmental and economic feasibility of alternative crops in arid areas: Considering mesquite in Baja California, Mexico.” Journal of Arid Environments 48(1): 9-22.

Steinbeck, J. (1941). The Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York, Penguin Books.

Stock, J. M. and K. V. Hodges (1989). “Pre-Pliocene extension around the Gulf of Calironia and the transfer of Baja California to the Pacific Plate.” Tectonics 8: 99-115.

Stock, J. M. and K. V. Hodges (1990). “Miocene to Recent structural development of an extensional accommodation zone, northeastern Baja California, Mexico.” Journal of Structural Geology 12: 315-328.

Taylor, E. N. (2001). “Diet of the Baja California rattlesnake, Crotalus enyo (Viperidae).” Copeia 2: 553-555.

Thompson, D. A., l. T. Findley, et al. (2000). Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez: The Rocky Shore Fishes of the Gulf of California. Austin, The University of Austin Press.

Thomson, D. A. and N. McKibben (1976). Gulf of California Fishwatcher's Guide. Tucson, Golden Puffer press.

Umhoefer, P. J., R. J. Dorsey, et al. (1994). “Tectonics of the Pliocene Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and evolution of the Gulf of California.” Geology 22(7): 649-652.

Umhoefer, P. J., L. Mayer, et al. (2002). “Evolution of the margin of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.” Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 114(7): 849-868.

Vermeij, G. J. (1993). A Natural History of Shells. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Wade, J. (1997). Seasonal Guide to the Natural Year: Southern California and Baja. Golden, Fulcrum Publishing.

Ward, E. (2001). “The twentieth-century ghosts of William Walker: Conquest of land and water as central themes in the history of the Colorado River Delta.” Pacific Historical Review 70(3): 359-385.

Wetmore, P. H., K. L. Schmidt, et al. (2002). “Tectonic implications for the along-strike variation of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California.” Geology 30(3): 247-250.

Wiggins, I. L. (1981). Flora of Baja California. Palo Alto, Stanford University Press.

Zanchi, A. (1994). “The opening of the Gulf of California near Loreto, Baja California, Mexico: from basin and range extension to transtentional tectonics.” Journal of Structural Geology 16: 1619-1639.

Zwinger, A. (1961). A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California. New York, Harper and Row.