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Animal Diversity and Biogeography of the Cuatro Cienegas Basin 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.
Chapter 1 - An overview of the fauna of the Cuatro Cienegas Valley / Fernando Alvarez & Margarita Ojeda
Chapter 2 - Helminth community structure of some freshwater fishes in Cuatro Cienegas: Patterns and Processes / Gerardo Perez-Ponce de Leon & Rogelio Aguilar-Aguilar
Chapter 3 - Soil microarthropods / Margarita Ojeda
Chapter 4 - Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Cuatro Cienegas Basin / Oscar Francke
Chapter 5 - Spiders / Pablo Corcuera, Maria Luisa Jimenez & Marco Antonio Desales
Chapter 6 - Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidiae) / Gerardo Rivas & Maria Marcia Ramirez-Sanchez
Chapter 7 - Crustaceans / Fernando Alvarez & Jose Luis Villalobos
Chapter 8 - Molluscs / Evan Carson
Chapter 9 - The diversity of Lepidoptera (Papilionoidea sensu stricto) in the Cuatro Cienegas Valley: spatial and temporal patterns / Marysol Trujano-Ortega, Jessica Hernandez-Jeronimo, Moises Armando Luis-Martinez, Uri Omar Garcia-Vazquez & Omar Avalos-Hernandez
Chapter 10 - Diversity and resource use patterns of bees and flies that visit flowers in the Cuatro Cienegas Valley / Omar Avalos-Hernandez, Marysol Trujano-Ortega, Uri Omar Garcia-Vazquez & Olivia Yanez-Ordonez
Chapter 11 - Dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) / Enrique Gonzalez-Soriano
Chapter 12 - Diversity and ecology of ants in Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila / Milan Janda, Pablo Corcuera-Del Rio, Madai Rosas-Mejia, Mario Aguilar-Mendez & Miguel Vasquez-Bolanos
Chapter 13 - Systematics of the fishes of Cuatro Cienegas / Hector Espinosa, Christian Lambarri, Mauricio de la Maza & Evan Carson
Chapter 14 - Diversity and biogeophaphical affinity of amphibians and reptiles of Cuatro Cienegas Valley / Uri Omar Garcia-Vazquez, Marysol Trujano-Ortega, Arturo Contreras-Arquieta & Omar Avalos-Hernandez
Chapter 15 - Birds / Pablo Corcuera, Adolfo Navarro, Luis Antonio Sanchez-Gonzalez & Omar Suarez-Garcia
Chapter 16 - Patters of distribution and endemism in the mammals of the Cuatro Cienegas Valley, Coahuila / Niza Gamez & Gabriela Castellanos-Morales
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.
