Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Mexico

• Autore: Lujano Sofía Solórzano
• Pubblicazione: Sharjah : , : Bentham Science Publishers, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 pages)
• Disciplina: 577.54
• Soggetto topico: Arid regions ecology; Biodiversity conservation
• Altri autori: AvilaJosé Guillermo QuirozIsrael Valencia
• Nota di contenuto: Title -- Copyright -- End User License Agreement -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Presentation -- List of Contributors -- PART 1 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID ZONES -- Climatic Domains of the Arid and Semiarid Zones of Mexico -- Oswaldo Téllez-Valdés1,*, Maribel Arenas-Navarro1 and César Miguel Talonia2 -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Study Area -- Climate Data -- Climatic Domains -- RESULTS -- Understanding Groups and Domains -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX A -- REFERENCES -- The Arid and Semi-arid Regions of Puebla-Oaxaca and Querétaro-Hidalgo: A Look from the Physical-Geographical Perspective -- Francisco López-Galindo1,*, Fernando Ayala-Niño1 and Ana María Muñoz-Flores1 -- INTRODUCTION -- Brief History of the Origin of the Desert and Semi-Arid Zones of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley (TCV) in Puebla-Oaxaca, and the Mezquital Valley and Sierra Gorda (MVSG) in Querétaro-Hidalgo. -- The Geodiversity of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley (TCV) in the States of Puebla and Oaxaca -- Location -- Structure of the TCV Physiographic Landscape -- Sierra Madre del Sur Province -- Mixteca Alta Subprovince -- Dominant Landforms -- Surface Lithology -- Soils -- Leptosols -- Phaeozems -- Fluvisols -- Regosols -- Vertisols -- Cambisols -- Anthrosols -- CLIMATE ASPECTS -- Types of Weather -- Hydrology -- Geodiversity of the Mezquital Valley and Southeast Sierra Gorda Mountains (MVSG) of the states of Querétaro and Hidalgo -- Location -- Brief Structure of the VMSG Physiographic Landscape -- TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT -- Physiographic Subprovince -- Sierra Madre Oriental Province -- Surface Lithology -- Soils -- Fluvisol -- Leptosol -- Luvisol -- Regosol -- Vertisol -- Phaeozem -- CLIMATE -- HYDROLOGICAL FEATURES -- CONVERGENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TCV AND MVSG ZONES. ; Geomorphological Landscapes and Terrain Forms -- Lithological Components -- Climatic Elements -- Hydrological Components -- Soils -- Ecosystems and Vegetation -- Productive Systems -- Mining Activities -- Geological Heritage -- Educational Programs -- SOME DIVERGENCES BETWEEN TCV AND MVSG ZONES -- Climatic Elements -- Geomorphological Landscapes and Landforms -- Lithological Components -- Hydrological Components -- Soil Types -- Productive Systems -- Cultural Heritage -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- BIODIVERSITY - ANIMAL SECTION -- Ants from Mexican Arid and Semiarid Zones -- Leticia Ríos-Casanova1,*, Gabriela Castaño-Meneses2, Miguel Vásquez-Bolaños3 and César Maximiliano Vázquez-Franco4 -- INTRODUCTION -- ANT ADAPTATIONS TO LIFE IN DRY AREAS -- Morphological Adaptations -- Pigmentation and Hairiness -- Specialized Structures -- Fast Scrolling -- Specialized Castes -- Physiological Adaptations -- Cellular and Molecular -- Navigation -- Ecological Adaptations -- Foraging and Phenology -- Nesting -- ANT DIVERSITY IN THE ARID AND SEMIARID ZONES OF MEXICO -- ROLE OF ANTS IN THE ARID AND SEMIARID ZONES OF MEXICO -- Factors Structuring Communities -- Activity Patterns -- Ant-Plant Interactions -- Systematics -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX B -- REFERENCES -- Avian Diversity in the Arid and Semiarid Regions of Mexico -- Francisco Alberto Rivera-Ortiz1, Leopoldo Daniel Vázquez-Reyes2 and Patricia Ramírez-Bastida2,* -- INTRODUCTION -- How Many Bird Species Inhabit Mexico's Arid Zones, and What Insights do they Provide into the Ecological Affinities of Mexican Biodiversity? -- AVIFAUNA IN DRY ENVIRONMENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID ZONES -- Data Source -- Birds -- Study Area -- Analysis Database -- BIRDS IN ARID AND SEMIARID ZONES -- Species Richness, Threatened Species, Endemism, and Residence Status. ; Spatial Richness and Record Distribution -- Species Richness by type of Vegetation -- Important Bird Areas (IBA) Show Biogeographical Affinities -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX C -- REFERENCES -- Hummingbird (Aves: Trochilidae) Diversity in Arid Zones -- Ubaldo Márquez-Luna1, Laura E. Nuñez-Rosas2, Gabriel López-Segoviano2 and María del Coro Arizmendi-Arriaga1,* -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- BIODIVERSITY - PLANT SECTION -- Cactus Diversity in Arid and Semiarid Regions of Mexico -- Sofía Solórzano-Lujano1,*, Cesar Miguel Talonia2, Maribel Arenas-Navarro3 and Oswaldo Téllez-Valdés3 -- INTRODUCTION -- DATABASE AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- CACTUS DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION -- BETA DIVERSITY AND DISSIMILARITY IN SPECIES COMPOSITION -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX D -- APPENDIX E -- REFERENCES -- SECONDARY METABOLITES AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES -- Medicinal Flora and their Specialized Metabolites of Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Mexico -- Ma. Edith López-Villafranco1, Ma. Patricia Jáquez-Ríos1, Silvia Aguilar-Rodríguez2, Patricia Guevara-Fefer3, Felix Krengel3, Nallely Álvarez-Santos4, Adriana Montserrat Espinosa-González4, Edgar Antonio Estrella-Parra4, Israel Valencia Quiroz4 and Ana María García-Bores4,* -- INTRODUCTION -- Ethnobotanical Information on Medicinal Flora in Arid and Semiarid Areas -- Specialized Metabolites of Medicinal Plants -- Jatropha dioica Sessé (Euphorbiaceae) -- Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville (Zygophyllaceae) -- Lippia graveolens Kunth (Verbenaceae) -- Nicotiana glauca Graham (Solanaceae) -- Some Species of Genus Bursera (Burseraceae) -- Vallesia glabra Link (Apocynaceae) -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX F -- REFERENCES. ; Antimicrobial Properties of Eugenol in Euphorbia Species from Mexican Arid Zones -- Axel Rodrigo Molina-Gallardo1, Carlos Castillo-Hernández1, Julieta Orozco-Martínez1, Israel Valencia Quiroz2 and Claudia Tzasna Hernández-Delgado1,* -- ARID ZONES IN MEXICO -- Floristic Diversity in the Arid Regions -- Plant Resources -- Stress and its Relationship with Secondary Metabolite Production in Plants -- Traditional Mexican Medicine -- Essential Oils and Volatile Compounds -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- MANAGEMENT OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- Participatory Territorial Planning: A Knowledge Management-Based Tool for Socioecological Analysis in Arid Zones -- Víctor M. Salazar-Rojas1,*, Humberto Macías-Cuellar1, Mayra Hernández-Moreno1, César Mateo Flores-Ortíz2, Patricia Dávila-Aranda3 and Javier Ramírez-Juárez4 -- INTRODUCTION -- Understanding the Territory: Definitions and Implications -- The Integration of the Concept of Socioecological Systems into the Analysis of the Territory -- Natural Resource Management -- Rural Development -- The Knowledge Management Model -- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDY AREA -- TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN THE TERRITORY -- Knowledge Management through Citizen Science Nodes -- Community Territorial Planning -- CASE STUDIES IN ARID AND SEMIARID ZONES -- Citizen Science Node -- Community Territorial Planning -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION -- State and Transition Models as Useful Tools for Understanding Vegetation Change in Mexican Deserts and Semideserts -- Héctor Godínez-Alvarez1,*, Jessica Sosa-Quintero1, Leticia Ríos-Casanova1, Daniel Muñoz-Iniestra2 and Rafael Lira-Saade3 -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF STATE AND TRANSITION MODELS -- STATE AND TRANSITION MODELS IN DESERTS AND SEMIDESERTS -- THE ZAPOTITLÁN SALINAS VALLEY: AN EXAMPLE. ; CONCLUSION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Functional Characters of Nurses and their Effect on Diversity in Semiarid Environments -- Sandra M. Gelviz-Gelvez1, Felipe Barragán2, Oswaldo Téllez-Valdés3 and Francisco A. Guerra-Coss4,* -- INTRODUCTION -- Studies of Nurses in Arid and Semi-arid Environments Around the World -- Cumulative Number of Nurse Species -- Functional Characters -- Plant Height -- Canopy Size -- Canopy Density -- Spines, Thorns, and Chemical Compounds -- Architecture and Radicular Functioning -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CONSERVATION -- Environmental Pollution in the Chihuahuan Desert and Risks to Human Health: The Case of La Comarca Lagunera -- Alberto González-Zamora1, Edgar Olivas-Calderón2, Esperanza Yasmin Calleros-Rincón2 and Rebeca Pérez-Morales2,* -- INTRODUCTION -- LA COMARCA LAGUNERA -- Water Pollution Problems and Health Risks -- Nitrates -- Phosphates -- Fluorides -- Arsenic -- Lead -- Soil Pollution Problems and Health Risks -- Persistent Organic Compounds (POPs) -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Identification of Priority Areas for Cactaceae Conservation in Arid and Semiarid Zones -- Oswaldo Téllez-Valdés1,*, Cesar Miguel Talonia2, Maribel Arenas-Navarro1, Sofía Solórzano Lujano3, Rafael Lira-Saade1 and Patricia Dávila-Aranda1 -- INTRODUCTION -- The Biological Relevance of Cactus -- METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGY -- PRIORITY AREAS FOR CACTI CONSERVATION -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX G -- REFERENCES -- Ex situ Conservation of Mexican Flora from Arid Regions: How Well is it Represented in the FESI-UNAM Seed Bank? -- Isela Rodríguez-Arévalo1,*, Patricia Dávila-Aranda2, Juana Lilia García-Rojas1, Armando Ponce-Vargas1 and María Guadalupe Chávez-Hernández1 -- INTRODUCTION -- ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES. ; Geographical Distribution of Accessions in Arid Zones.
• Sommario/riassunto: Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Mexico: A Comprehensive Exploration of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation is an in-depth, multidisciplinary examination of one of Mexico's most ecologically distinctive and biologically rich landscapes. Comprising 14 chapters authored by subject-matter experts, this reference work investigates the climatic, physical, and biological characteristics of Mexico's principal arid and semi-arid regions. The volume presents detailed assessments of emblematic plant and animal species, while also exploring the ecological roles of nursery processes and the consequences of human activity on fragile desert ecosystems. Conservation priorities are addressed through evaluations of protected natural areas and the safeguarding of native germplasm resources. Additionally, the contributors document the medicinal and biologically active products derived from arid-zone flora, highlighting their ecological and cultural significance. Each chapter integrates case studies and findings from Mexico's key arid regions -- the Baja California Peninsula, Chihuahuan Desert, Sonoran Desert, and Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley. Key Features Comprehensive ecological, biological, and conservation analysis of Mexico's arid and semi-arid regions In-depth focus on emblematic fauna and flora Examination of ecological processes, human impacts, and conservation strategies Assessment of protected areas and germplasm conservation efforts using cacti as umbrella taxa Documentation of natural products with medicinal and biological applications Integrative analyses across four major arid regions, highlighting ecological patterns and biodiversity trends.
• Titolo autorizzato: Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Mexico
• ISBN: 9789815322460
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911117584203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II