Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II
| Authors: | Gerald J. Gottfried, Brooke S. Gebow, Lane G. Eskew, Carleton B. Edminster |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Type: | Proceedings |
| Station: | Rocky Mountain Research Station |
| Source: | Proceedings RMRS-P-36. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 631 p |
Abstract
The Madrean Archipelago, or Sky Island, region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico is recognized for its great biological diversity and natural beauty. This conference brought together scientists, managers, and other interested parties to share their knowledge about the region and to identify needs and possible solutions for existing and emerging problems. It provided a forum to update the state-of-knowledge acquired since the first conference in 1994. The proceedings contains over 100 articles and additional abstracts from the plenary sessions and from concurrent sessions covering biogeography, ecosystem monitoring, science-based management, cultural resources/history, invasive species, hydrology and biodiversity, conservation planning, ecology, fire, conservation practice, and global climatic change. Abstracts in Spanish are included. The summary of an open forum at the end of the conference provides additional thoughts about current and future needs for the Madrean Archipelago.Titles contained within Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II
- Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II: Summary of discussions during the concluding session
- Ecosystem management in the Madrean Archipelago: a 10-year historical perspective
- Landholding systems and resource management in the Sky Islands Borderlands
- Ghostly grazers and Sky Islands
- Fire histories from pine-dominant forest in the Madrean Archipelago
- Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II: Plenary abstracts
- Sexual differentiation in the distribution potential of northern jaguars (Panthera onca)
- Predicting habitat suitability for wildlife in southeastern Arizona using Geographic Information Systems: scaled quail, a case study
- The tectonic evolution of the Madrean Archipelago and its impact on the geoecology of the Sky Islands
- A quantitative topographic analysis of the Sky Islands: a closer examination of the topography-biodiversity relationship in the Madrean Archipelago
- Occurrence, structure, and nitrogen-fixation of root nodules of actinorhizal Arizona alder
- Distribution of birds and plants at the western and southern edges of the Madrean Sky Islands in Sonora, Mexico
- Chiricahua leopard frog status in the Galiuro Mountains, Arizona, with a monitoring framework for the species' entire range
- Flora of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Cochise County, Arizona
- Variation in populations of Yarrow's spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii, in the northern Madrean Archipelago region
- Lowland riparian herpetofaunas: the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona
- Herpetofauna of lowland bottomlands of southeastern Arizona: a comparison of sites
- A preliminary floristic inventory in the Sierra de Mazatan, Municipios of Ures and Mazatan, Sonora, Mexico
- Refugia, biodiversity, and pollination roles of bumble bees in the Madrean Archipelago
- First records of two species of mammals in the Huachuca Mountains: results of ecological stewardship at Fort Huachuca
- Historical biogeography of longhorn cactus beetles: the influence of Pleistocene climate changes on American desert communities
- Biogeography of amphibians and reptiles in Arizona
- The Arizona striped whiptail: past and present
- In search of the Madrean line: biogeography of herpetofauna in the Sky Island region
- Floristic comparison of an Arizona Sky Island and the Sierra Madre Occidental in eastern Sonora: the Huachuca Mountains and the Yecora area
- The forgotten flora of la Frontera
- Hummingbird conservation: discovering diversity patterns in southwest U.S.A.
- An overview of the floristic richness and conservation of the arid regions of northern Mexico
- High-resolution climate monitoring on a mountain island: the Saguaro National Park pilot study
- Challenges to managing natural resource information
- Wild cats of the Sky Islands: a summary of monitoring efforts using noninvasive techniques
- How do humans restructure the biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert?
- Using cluster analysis and a classification and regression tree model to developed cover types in the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona
- Long-term ecosystem monitoring and change detection: the Sonoran initiative
- Phenology and trend indicators derived from spatially dynamic bi-weekly satellite imagery to support ecosystem monitoring
- Community based monitoring: engaging and empowering Alberta ranchers
- Water quality monitoring for high-priority water bodies in the Sonoran Desert network
- Vegetation in transition: the Southwest's dynamic past century
- Landscape-level impacts of livestock on the diversity of a desert grassland: preliminary results from long-term experimental studies
- The Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station's Southwestern Borderlands Ecosystem Management Project: building on 10 years of success
- The Research Ranch: what do you do with a grassland besides raise cows?
- Management and conservation of tree squirrels: the importance of endemism, species richness, and forest condition
- The development of landscape-scale ecological units and their application to the greater Huachuca Mountains fire planning process
- Analysis of landscape fragmentation in the Peloncillo Mountains in relation to wildfire, prescribed burning, and cattle grazing
- Ecosystem management and its role in linking science, policy, and management
- Environmental change at Kartchner Caverns: trying to separate natural and anthropogenic changes
- Natural setting as cultural landscapes: the power of place and tradition
- CHI CH'IL (acorns): Dissolution of traditional Dilzhe'e gathering practice(s) due to federal control of the landscape
- The Western Apache home: landscape management and failing ecosystems
- Varmint control in Cochise County over the years
- Changes in the Pincate Reserve ecosystems: Invasion of non-native plants
- Monitoring invasive plants using hand-held GIS technology
- Tamarisk and river restoration along the San Pedro and Gila Rivers
- The lower San Pedro River: hydrology and flow restoration for biodiversity conservation
- Hydrology, ecology, and management of riparian areas in the Madrean Archipelago
- Comparing ecosystem water and carbon exchange across a riparian mesquite invasion gradient
- Citizens' council protecting Sky Island wildlife corridor
- Herpetology of the American Madrean Archipelago and adjacent valleys
- Herpetology of the Coronado National Forest: managing our natural heritage
- Coyote abundance in relation to habitat characteristics in Sierra San Luis, Sonora, Mexico
- Prospects for Mexican gray wolf recovery in the Sky Islands
- Return of the Tarahumara frog to Arizona
- Rangeland degradation and restoration in the "desert seas": social and economic drivers of ecological change between the Sky Islands
- Threats to cross-border wildlife linkages in the Sky Islands Wildlands Network
- An assessment of the spatial extent and condition of grasslands in the Apache Highlands ecoregion
- Building effective international, multicultural alliances for restoration of ejido forests in the Sierra Madre Occidental
- History, extent, and future of Arizona BLM-managed roadless areas in the Madrean Archipelago
- Conservation priorities in the Apache Highlands ecoregion
- Proceedings of Border Institute VI: transboundary ecosystem management
- Characterization of Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) habitat in Madrean Sky Island ecosystems
- Safe Harbor: a tool to help recover topminnow and pupfish in Arizona
- Kleptoparasitic behavior and species richness at Mt. Graham red squirrel middens
- Vegetative characteristics of oak savannas in the southwestern United States: a comparative analysis with oak woodlands in the region
- Watershed improvement using prescribed burns as a way to restore aquatic habitat for native fish
- Effects of the Chytrid fungus on the Tarahumara frog (Rana tarahumarae) in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico
- A dearth of data on the mammals of the Madrean Archipelago: what do we think we know and what we actually do know
- Abundance and food habits of cougars and bobcats in the Sierra San Luis, Sonora, Mexico
- Post-fire saguaro community: impacts on associated vegetation still apparent 10 years later
- Correlates of vulnerability in Chiricahua fox squirrels
- Habitat and conservation status of the beaver in the Sierra San Luis Sonora, Mexico
- Ecology and natural history of the green rat snake at Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge, Cochise County, Arizona
- GIS and path analysis: examining associations between the birds, the bees, and plant sex in Echinocereus coccineus (Cactaceae)
- Black bear abundance, habitat use, and food habits in the Sierra San Luis, Sonora, Mexico
- Effects of fire on Sonoran desert plant communities
- Madrean pine-oak forest in Arizona: altered fire regimes, altered communities
- Greater Huachuca Mountains Fire Management Group
- No positive feedback between fire and a nonnative perennial grass
- An on-line interface for integrated modeling of wildlife, climate, and society for strategic planning for the Sky Islands
- Changes in forest species composition and structure after stand-replacing wildfire in the mountains of southeastern Arizona
- Proposed wildland fire amendment to the Coronado National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan
- Shifts in the potential distribution of Sky Island plant communities in response to climate change
- Climate mitigation potential of the San Pedro River riparian zone
- Studies of methane fluxes reveal that desert soils can mitigate global climate change
- The effects of fire events on soil geochemistry in semi-arid grasslands
- Assessing indicators of rangeland health with remote sensing in southeast Arizona
- Status of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) in Sonora, Mexico
- Cultural resource management and the necessity of cultural and natural resource collaboration
- International Arid Lands Consortium's contributions to Madrean Archipelago stewardship
- Abundance of birds in the oak savannas of the southwestern United States
- Defining boundaries across borders: a case study extending a major land resource area into Mexico
- Pollination of pima pineapple cactus (Coryphantha sheeri var. robustispina): does pollen flow limit abundance of this endangered species?
- Monitoring post-fire vegetation regeneration in a Madrean ecosystem
- Evaluation of post-wildfire runoff and erosion on semiarid ecological sites
- Vegetation-environment relations of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas
- Management of thinned Emory oak coppice for multiple resource benefits
- Vascular plant and vertebrate inventories in Sonoran Desert National Parks
- Short-term effects of fire on Sky Island ant communities
- A quantitative topographic analysis of the Sky Islands: a closer examination of the topography-biodiversity relationship in the Madrean Archipelago [Abstract]
- Occurrence, structure, and function of the nitrogen-fixing microsymbiont Frankia from nodules of Arizona alder [Abstract]
- Vegetative characteristics of oak savannas in the southwestern United States: a comparative analysis with oak woodlands in the region [Abstract]
- The Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station's Southwestern Borderlands Ecosystem Management Project: building on ten years of success [Abstract]
- Using cluster analysis and a classification and regression tree model to developed cover types in the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona [Abstract]
- Characterization of habitat preferences for selected wildlife species in encinal savannas of the Southwest [Poster]
- Post-fire saguaro community: impacts on associated vegetation still apparent 10 years later [Abstract]
- Hydrology, ecology, and management of riparian areas in the Madrean Archipelago [Abstract]
- Optimizing Emory oak woodlands for multiple resource benefits [Poster]