Animal Diversity and Biogeography of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin

ISBN-13: 9783030112615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 231 str.

Fernando Alvarez; Margarita Ojeda

Spis treści

Chapter 1 - An overview of the fauna of the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley 

Fernando Alvarez  & Margarita Ojeda (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 2 - Helminth community structure of some freshwater fishes in Cuatro Ciénegas: Patterns and Processes

Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de Léon & Rogelio Aguilar-Aguilar (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 3 - Soil microarthropods

Margarita Ojeda (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 4 - Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin

Oscar Francké (UNAM, MX) 

​Chapter 5 - Spiders

Pablo Corcuera (UAM, MX), María Luisa Jiménez (CIBNOR, MX) & Marco Antonio Desales (UAEM, MX)

​Chapter 6 - Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidiae)

Gerardo Rivas & María Marcia Ramírez-Sánchez (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 7 - Crustaceans
Fernando Alvarez & José Luis Villalobos (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 8 - Molluscs

Evan Carson (US Fish and Wildlife Service, USA)

​Chapter 9 - The diversity of Lepidoptera (Papilionoidea sensu stricto) in the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley: spatial and temporal patterns

Marysol Trujano-Ortega, Jessica Hernández-Jerónimo, Moisés Armando Luis-Martínez, Uri Omar García-Vázquez & Omar Ávalos-Hernández (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 10 - Diversity and resource use patterns of bees and flies that visit flowers in the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley

Omar Ávalos-Hernández, Marysol Trujano-Ortega, Uri Omar García-Vázquez & Olivia Yánez-Ordóñez (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 11 - Dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata)

Enrique Gónzalez-Soriano (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 12 - Diversity and ecology of ants in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila

Milan Janda, Pablo Corcuera-Del Rio, Madai Rosas-Mejia, Mario Aguilar-Mendez & Miguel Vásquez-Bolaños (UNAM, UAdeG, UAG, MX)

​Chapter 13 -Systematics of the fishes of Cuatro Ciénegas

Héctor Espinosa, Christian Lambarri (UNAM, MX), Mauricio de la Maza (Pronatura Noreste, UNAM, MX)  & Evan Carson (US Fish and Wildlife Service, USA)

​Chapter 14 - Diversity and biogeophaphical affinity of amphibians and reptiles of Cuatro Ciénegas Valley

Uri Omar García-Vázquez, Marysol Trujano-Ortega (UNAM, MX), Arturo Contreras-Arquieta (Acuario y Herpetario W. L. Minckley, MX) & Omar Ávalos-Hernández (UNAM, MX)

​Chapter 15 - Birds

Pablo Corcuera (UAM, MX), Adolfo Navarro (UNAM, MX), Luis Antonio Sánchez-González (UNAM, MX) & Omar Suárez-García (UNAM, MX)

Chapter 16 - Patters of distribution and endemism in the mammals of the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley, Coahuila

Niza Gámez & Gabriela Castellanos-Morales (UNAM, MX)

O autorze

Fernando Alvarez obtained his B.Sc. degree in Biology from the School of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He subsequently completed his MSc degree at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and his PhD at the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, USA. In 1993 he was hired by the Institute of Biology, UNAM, where he is now a full Professor and became Curator of Crustacea. He has published 121 papers on the biology of Crustacea, mainly in systematics, ecology and evolution; he has written 29 book chapters and 8 books. He is currently Editor in Chief of Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, has been awarded level III in the National Researchers System of Mexico (SNI) and is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

Margarita Ojeda received her BSc degree in Biology from the School of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City in 1983, and then her MSc degree and PhD from the same university in 1990. She has published papers describing species of oribatid mites from Mexico, and on different topics such as the ecology and the role of the soil fauna. Since 2013, she has been an associated researcher at the National Acarology Collection of the Biology Institute at UNAM, and collaborates in different activities and projects concerning several groups of mites.

Blurb

This volume investigates the contemporary fauna that inhabit the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. Divided into 15 chapters, it addresses and describes their diversity, taxonomic and biogeogaphic affinities, and ecological characteristics.  

The Cuatro Ciénegas Valley is a unique oasis in the south-central region of the State of Coahuila, part of the Sonoran Desert, in Mexico. Several clues, specially derived from the study of the microbiota, suggest a very ancient origin of the valley and its permanence through time. This condition had promoted a high level of endemism and led to unique interactions between the resident species.