Foreword
Senator Tom Udall
Preface
Edwin P. (Phil) Pister
Section 1. Engaging the Battle
1 The Battle to Conserve Aquatic Species in Lands of Water Scarcity Continues
Jack E. Williams and David L. Propst
2 The Protagonists
2a Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Robert Rush Miller
Robert J. Edwards
2b W. L. Minckley
Chuck O. Minckley
2c Salvador Contreras-Balderas
María de Lourdes Lozano-Vilano and Armando Jesús Contreras-Balderas
2d James E. Deacon
Cindy Deacon Williams
2e Clark Hubbs
Gary P. Garrett
2f Robert J. Behnke
Kevin R. Bestgen and Kurt D. Fausch
2g Edwin P. (Phil) Pister
Kathryn Boyer
3 Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of North American Desert Fishes
Christopher W. Hoagstrom, Derek D. Houston, and Norman Mercado-Silva
4 Living with Aliens: Nonnative Fishes in the American Southwest
Peter B. Moyle
5 Current Conservation Status of Some Freshwater Species and Their Habitats in México
María de Lourdes Lozano-Vilano, Armando J. Contreras-Balderas, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, and María Elena García-Ramírez
6 Ghosts of Our Making: Extinct Aquatic Species of the North American Desert Region
Jack E. Williams and Donald W. Sada
Section 2. Racing to Collapse
7 Running on Empty: Southwestern Water Supplies and Climate Change
Brad Udall
8 Mining Hidden Waters: Groundwater Depletion, Aquatic Habitat Degradation, and Loss of Fish Diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion of Texas
Gary P. Garrett, Megan G. Bean, Robert J. Edwards, and Dean A. Hendrickson
9 Southwestern Fish and Aquatic Systems: The Climate Challenge
Jonathan T. Overpeck and Scott A. Bonar
10 Novel Drought Regimes Restructure Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in Arid-Land Streams
Kate S. Boersma and David A. Lytle
11 The Exotic Dilemma: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Recover Native Colorado River Basin Fishes
Brandon Albrecht, Ron Kegerries, Ron Rogers, and Paul Holden
Section 3. Improving the Odds
12 Applying Endangered Species Act Protections to Desert Fishes: Assessment and Opportunities
Matthew E. Andersen and James E. Brooks
13 The Value of Specimen Collections for Conserving Biodiversity
Adam E. Cohen, Dean A. Hendrickson, and Gary P. Garrett
14 Conservation Genetics of Desert Fishes in the Genomics Age
Thomas F. Turner, Thomas E. Dowling, Trevor J. Krabbenhoft, Megan J. Osborne, and Tyler J. Pilger
15 Long-Term Monitoring of a Desert Fish Assemblage in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona
Peter N. Reinthal, Heidi Blasius, and Mark Haberstich
16 Human Impacts on the Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Restoration Potential of Southwestern Rivers
Mark C. Stone and Ryan R. Morrison
17 Conservation and Ecological Rehabilitation of North American Desert Spring Ecosystems
Donald W. Sada and Lawrence E. Stevens
Section 4. Searching for Recovery
18 Oases: Finding Hidden Biodiversity Gems in the Southern Sonoran Desert
Michael T. Bogan, Carlos Alonso Ballesteros-Córdova, Scott E. K. Bennett, Michael H. Darin, Lloyd T. Findley, and Alejandro Varela-Romero
19 Recent Discoveries and Conservation of Catfishes, Genus Ictalurus, in México
Alejandro Varela-Romero, Carlos Alonso Ballesteros-Córdova, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Sergio Sánchez-Gonzalez, and James E. Brooks
20 Ecology, Politics, and Conservation of Gila Trout
David L. Propst, Thomas F. Turner, Jerry A. Monzingo, James E. Brooks, and Dustin J. Myers
21 Large-River Fish Conservation in the Colorado River Basin: Progress and Challenges with Razorback Sucker
Kevin R. Bestgen, Thomas E. Dowling, Brandon Albrecht, and Koreen A. Zelasko
22 Assisting Recovery: Intensive Interventions to Conserve Native Fishes of Desert Springs and Wetlands
Sean C. Lema, Jennifer M. Gumm, Olin G. Feuerbacher, and Michael R. Schwemm
23 Restoration of Aquatic Habitats and Native Fishes in the Desert: Some Successes in Western North America
Anthony A. Echelle and Alice F. Echelle
Section 5. Exploring Our Future
24 The Devils Hole Pupfish: Science in a Time of Crises
Kevin P. Wilson, Mark B. Hausner, and Kevin C. Brown
25 Politics, Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures
Christopher Norment
26 Searching for Common Ground between Life and Extinction
Christopher W. Hoagstrom, Kevin R. Bestgen, David L. Propst, and Jack E. Williams
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index