Publications
Articles: Social and Economic Studies
Almedarez, L. C., G. Ponce, J. Urciaga, y L. Beltrán. 2009. Mercado externo y desarrollo regional: importancia de la pesquería de langosta en Baja California Sur. En: Recursos marinos y servicios ambientales en el desarrollo regional. J. Urciaga, L. Beltrán y D. Lluch (eds). CIB. Pp. 293-322.
Costello, C. and D. Kaffine. 2008. Natural resource use with limited tenure property rights. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 55(1): 20-36.
Degnbol, P. and B. J. McCay. 2007. Unintended and Perverse Consequences of Ignoring Linkages in Fisheries Systems. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64 (4): 793-797.
Lagunas Magdalena, Luis Felipe Beltrán, José Urciaga García y Alfredo Ortega Rubio. 2008. “Evaluación Rural Participativa (ERP): Uso de los recursos naturales en la Reserva de la Biosfera del Vizcaíno, B. C. S. México”, en Revista Economía Sociedad y Territorio, El Colegio Mexiquense. No. 28.
Lagunas, M., J. Urciaga, L. Beltrán, G. Ponce, J. A. Beltrán, y S. Lluch. 2009. Los recursos marinos y costeros en el desarrollo local de la zona Pacífico Norte de Baja California. En: Recursos marinos y servicios ambientales en el desarrollo regional. J. Urciaga, L. Beltrán y D. Lluch (eds). CIB. Pp. 265-292.
McCay, Bonnie J., Fiorenza Micheli, German Ponce-Diáz, Grant Murray, Geoff Shester, Saudiel Ramirez-Sanchez, and Wendy Weisman. Under review. Cooperatives and Local Co-Management of the Marine Commons in the Vizcaíno Region of Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Ocean and Coastal Management. Submitted Nov. 2009
McCay, Bonnie J., Wendy Weisman, and Carolyn F. Creed. Forthcoming. “Coping with Environmental Change: Systemic Responses and the Roles of Property and Community in Three Fisheries, “ In World Fisheries: A Social-ecological Analysis, eds. Rosemary Ommer, Ian Perry, Philippe Cury and Kevern Cochrane. Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell.
Ponce, G. and P. Alvarez. 2009. Promotion and management of marine fisheries in Mexico. In: Towards sustainable fisheries law. G. Winter (ed.). IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 74. Pp. 233-252.
Ponce, G., L. Beltrán, S. Hernández y E. Serviere. 2009. Pesca ribereña, retos y oportunidades en un entorno adverso. En: Recursos marinos y servicios ambientales en el desarrollo regional. J. Urciaga, L. Beltrán y D. Lluch (eds). CIB. Pp. 177-196.
Ponce Díaz, Germán, Wendy Weisman & Bonnie McCay. 2009. “Co-responsabilidad y participación en el manejo de pesquerías en México: lecciones de Baja California Sur.” (Co-responsibility and participation in fisheries management in Mexico: Lessons from Baja California Sur. Pesca y Conservación 1(1): 1-9.
Ponce, G. 2008. Uso de los recursos marinos. En: Del saqueo a la conservación: historia ambiental contemporánea de Baja California Sur, 1940-2003. M. Cariño y M. Monteforte (eds.) SEMARNAT. Mexico. Pp. 279-335.
Ramirez Sanchez, Saudiel, Bonnie J. McCay, Teresa Johnson, Wendy Weisman. Forthcoming (2010). “Surgimiento, formación, y persistencia de organizaciones sociales para la pesca ribereña de la península de Baja California: un enfoque antropológico.” Region y Sociedad.
Serrano, R., G. Ponce y L. Tirado. 2009. El marco legal de la explotación de los recursos marinos y los servicios de los ecosistemas. En: Recursos marinos y servicios ambientales en el desarrollo regional. J. Urciaga, L. Beltrán y D. Lluch (eds). CIB. Pp. 75-110
Shester, G.G. In press. Explaining Catch Variation in Baja California Lobster Fishermen through Spatial Analysis of Trap Placement Decisions. Bulletin of Marine Science.
Wilson, J., L. Yan, and C. Wilson. 2007. The precursors of governance in the Maine lobster fishery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:15212-15217.
Wilson, James and Liying Yan. 2009. Self-Organizing Economic Activity with Costly Information. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Franz Rothlauf (Ed.). ACM Press, New York, pp 2567-2574.
Wilson, James. 2007. Scale and the costs of fishery conservation. International Journal of the Commons. Vol 1, no 1 pp. 141-153.
Yan, Liying, and J. Wilson. 2008. Modeling the precursors of governance in the Maine lobster fishery. Proceedings of the USSEE.
Young, Oran, G Osherenko, J. Ekstrom, L. Crowder, J. Ogden, J. Wilson, J. Day, F. Douvere, C. Ehler, K. McLeod, B Halpern, R. Peach. 2007. Solving the crisis in ocean governance: Place based management of marine ecosystems. Environment. Vol. 49.4: 20-32.
Articles: Ecological and Environmental Studies
Bakun, A., Elizabeth A. Babcock, Salvador E. Lluch-Cota, Christine Santora and Christian J. Salvadeo. 2009. Issues of ecosystem-based management of forage fish in open non-stationary ecosystems: the example of the sardine fishery in the Gulf of California. Reviews in Fish Bioligy and Fisheries (online first) . 10.1007/s11160-009-9118-1
Castañeda–Fernández de Lara, V., H. Reyes–Bonilla and E. Serviere–Zaragoza. In press. A tropical assemblage of benthic macroalgae of rocky reefs in a temperate zone on the western Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. Botanica Marina.
Castañeda-Fernández de Lara, V., M. Butler, S. Hernández-Vázquez, S. Guzmán del Próo and E. Serviere-Zaragoza. 2005. Determination of preferred habitats of early benthic juvenile California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus, on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Marine and Freshwater Research 56(7): 1037-1045. F.I. 0.955
Haupt, A.J., F. Micheli, and S.R. Palumbi. In Prep. Dispersal at a snail’s pace – the influence of evolutionary process on modern connectivity in the wavy top snail.
Haupt, A.J., F. Micheli, and SR Palumbi. In Prep. Separate stocks despite high connectivity in the fished warty sea cucumber.
Herrera-Cervantes, H., DB. Lluch-Cota, SE. Lluch-Cota, G Gutierrez-de-Velasco. 2007. The ENSO signature in sea-surface temperature in the Gulf of California. Journal of Marine Research. 65(5): 589-605
Lluch-Belda, D., D.B. Lluch-Cota and S.E. Lluch-Cota. 2005. Changes in marine faunal distributions and ENSO events in the California Current. Fisheries Oceanography. 14(6): 458-467
Lluch-Belda, D., P. del Monte Luna and S.E. Lluch Cota. 2009. 20TH Century variability in the Gulf of California SST. California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations Reports. 50: 147-154
Lluch-Cota, S.E., Aragón-Noriega, A., Arreguín-Sánchez, F., et al., 2007. The Gulf of California: Ecosystem view and environmental trends. Progress in Oceanography. 73: 1-26
Martone, R., F. Micheli, L. Gonzalez, S. Guzman del Proo, A. Haupt, E. Serviere. In review. Regional and local variation of kelp forest communities along central Baja California, Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Martone, R.G. and Micheli, F. In review. Geographic patterns in life-history traits: Trade-offs in growth and reproduction of Megastraea undosa. Ecological Applications.
Mazariegos-Villarreal, A., R. Riosmena-Rodríguez, A.R. Rivera-Camachoand E. Serviere-Zaragoza. In press. First report of Cladostephus spongiosus (Sphacelariales: Phaeophyta) from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Botanica Marina.
Micheli, F. et al. Variation in Fisheries Performance: Disentangling social, economic, and biophysical drivers. In preparation for Fish and Fisheries.
Morales-Zárate M.V. and Lluch-Cota S.E. Structure and function of the rocky coastal ecosystem in Bahia Tortugas (Mexico). In preparation.
Morales-Zarate, M. V., S. E. Lluch-Cota, A. N. Maeda-Martinez, F. E. Werner. Strong production pulses of the catarina scallop (Argopecten ventricosus) fishery in Bahia Magdalena, Mexico: a model-based exploratory study. Submitted to Fisheries Oceanography.
Morales-Zarate, M.V., A.L. Aretxabaleta, F.E. Werner, S.E. Lluch-Cota. 2006. Modeling Winter circulation and particle retention in the Magdalena Bay Lagoon System (Baja California Sur, Mexico). Ciencias Marinas. 32(4): 631-647
Sicard, M. T., A. Maeda-Martínez, S.E. Lluch-Cota, C. Lodeiros, L. Roldán-Carrillo, R. Mendoza-Alfaro. 2006. Frequent monitoring of temperature: an essential requirement for site selection in bivalve aquaculture in tropical-temperate transition zones. Aquaculture Research. 37: 1040-1049.
Takasuka, A., Y. Oozeki, H. Kubota and Salvador E. Lluch-Cota. 2008. Contrasting spawning temperature optima: why are anchovy and sardine regime shifts synchronous across the North Pacific. Progress in Oceanography. 77: 225-232
Tourre, Y.M., S.E. Lluch-Cota and W.B. White. 2007. Global multidecadal climate and small pelagic fish population. Environmental Research Letters. 2: 1-9
Valenzuela-Quiñonez, W., E.A. Aragón Noriega, J.A. Arreola-Lizárraga, C.A. Salinas Zavala, S.E. Lluch-Cota, S. Hernández Vázquez. 2006. Habitat use for growth and recruitment of the Pacific Yellowleg shrimp, Farfantepenaeus californiensis (Decápoda, penaidae) on the continental shelf and adjacent Laguna Agiabampo, Mexico. Crustaceana. 79(8): 933-948
Vélez Arellano N., S.A. Guzmán del Próo y E Ortiz Ordóñez. Gonadal cycle of Tegula eiseni in Bahía Asunción, Baja California, México. 2009. Journal of Shellfish Research 28 (3): 1-4.
Theses
Abshire, Courtney. In progress. Effects of habitat spatial distribution and environmental factors on the density of a marine gastropod, Megastraea undosa (Wood, 1828). MS thesis. UT Austin.
Aguilar Mora, Fatima. 2009. Dieta natural de Megathura crenulata (Sowerby, 1825) en arrecifes rocosos de la costa Pacífica de Baja California Sur, México. Tesis de Licenciatura. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. México.
Almendárez Hernández,. Luis César. 2006. Análisis de mercado y comercialización de langosta roja (Panulirius interruptus), de la Península de Baja California Sur. Tesis de Licenciatura en Economía, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur.
Castañeda Fernández de Lara, Verónica. 2005. Caracterización del hábitat de juveniles de la langosta roja Panulirus interruptus (Randalll, 1839) en dos sitios ubicados en su zona de mayor abundancia en Baja California Sur, México. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste. La Paz, B.C.S. México. PhD thesis. 131 pp.
Castañeda Fernández de Lara, Verónica. Caracterización del hábitat de juveniles de la langosta roja Panulirus interruptus (Randalll, 1839) en dos sitios ubicados en su zona de mayor abundancia en Baja California Sur, México. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste. La Paz, B.C.S. México. PhD thesis. 131 pp.
Cervantes Saira, Lomelí y Adriana Miranda Burquez. 2007. Prácticas Desleales y Comercio Ilegal del abulón. Tesis de Licenciatura en Comercio Exterior. Universidad Autónoma de Baja Califorbia Sur.
Cortez, B. 2008. Geographic and seasonal variation in the reproductive performance of populations of the wavy snail (Megastraea undosa) along the Vizcaino Pensinsula, Baja California, Mexico, and implicatins for fisheries management. Honors thesis, Stanford University.
Fierro Jáuregui, María Lourdes. In progress. The natural diet of caracol panocha Megastraea undosa: efect on bichemical composition. CIBNOR. Master thesis conducted as part of this project 2008 – 2010.
Higuera González,. Edna Yolanda. 2006. Análisis del mercado y comercialización del abulón mexicano. Tesis de Licencuatura en Comercio Exterior, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur.
Jimenez Hernandez, Paola. 2009. Analisis espacio temporal de la diversidad de invertebrados bentónicos de Bahía Tortugas y La Bocana, B.C.S., Mexico Tesis de Licenciatura . Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas : Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Kaffine, D. 2007. Incomplete Property Rights and Natural Resource Use. PhD Dissertation. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Martone, R.G. 2009. Geographic variation in species demography and community structure in temperate rocky reefs. PhD Dissertation. Stanford University.
Morales-Zárate, M.V. 2006. Patrones de reclutamiento y deriva larvaria de la almeja catarina Argopecten ventricosus en el complejo lagunar de Bahía Magdalena-Almejas, B.C.S. México. PhD Thesis. CIBNOR.
Parada Valdes, Lilia. 2008. Microbiota acompañante de estadio juveniles tempranos de Haliotis . Tesis de Licenciatura . Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas : Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Peña-Baca, Tania. In progress. Implications of Allee Effects and Fisheries Exploitation in the Design of Marine Reserves. PhD dissertation. UT Austin.
Pérez Olachea, Luis Alejandro. In progress. The natural diet of Tegula eiseni. CIBNOR. Undergraduate thesis conducted as part of this project. 2008 – 2009.
Rivera Camacho, Alma. 2009. Macroalgas en bancos de abulón con distintos niveles de producción. Undergraduate Thesis. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur.
Rodríguez García, O. U. 2006. Condición nutricional de juveniles de langosta roja, Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840) en dos localidades de la costa Pacífico de Baja California Sur, México. Undergraduate Thesis. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. 56 pp.
Rodríguez García, O. U. 2006. Condición nutricional de juveniles de langosta roja, Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840) en dos localidades de la costa Pacífico de Baja California Sur, México. Tesis de Licenciatura. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. 56 pp.
Shester, G. 2008. Sustainability in small-scale fisheries: An analysis of ecosystem impacts, fishing behavior, and spatial management using participatory research methods. PhD dissertation, Stanford University.
Tellez, J. J. 2005. Environmental Politics in the Baja California Peninsula: NonGovernment Organizations, Coalitions, and Campaigns. Honors thesis, Stanford University. Recipient of the 2006 national thesis award from SEMARNAT' (Mexican Ministry for the Environment).
Velez Arellano, Monica Nurenskaya. 2008. Determinacion del ciclo gonádico de Tegula eiseni de Bahi Asuncion, B.C.S. Tesis de Licenciatura. Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas: Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Ventura López Claudia. 2007. Asentamiento de postlarvas de abulón en sustratos artificiales. Tesis de Licenciatura . Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas : Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Yan. L., Agent-based modeling with classifier system: a new modeling tool to investigate the dynamics of social/ecological systems with particular reference to the Maine lobster fishery. 2007. University of Maine, Orono, USA. PhD thesis.
White Papers and Reports
Beltrán, Luis Felipe, José Urciaga García y Alfredo Ortega Rubio (Editores), Enero, 2006. Desarrollo Sustentable. Mito o Realidad. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste. ISBN 968-5715-46-7 Febrero de 2006.273 páginas.
Funes-Rodríguez, R., J. Gómez-Gutierrez and R. Palomares-García, Editors. 2007. Estudios ecológicos en Bahía Magdalena. Instituto Politécnico Nacional. 311pp.
Guzmán del Próo, S.A., G. Gutierrez Velazco, E. Serviere, and S. Lluch Cota. 2009. Complejidad estructural del habitat de bancos abuloneros de Baja California. Reporte Tecnico. Lluch-Cota, S.E. y G. Hunt. 2009. Sesion 3 report: Ecosystem structure and functioning. GLOBEC International Newsletter. 15(2): 23-24
Lluch-Cota, S.E., B. Megrey and J. Stein. 2007. Mexican fisheries sciences and marine ecosystem modeling in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. PICES Press. 15(2):28-29
Lluch-Cota, S.E., M.V. Morales-Zárate y D.B. Lluch-Cota. 2009. Variabilidad del clima y pesquerías del noroeste mexicano. In: Urciaga, J., Beltrán, L.F. y D. Lluch-Belda (Eds). Recursos ,arinos y servicios ambientales en el desarrollo regional. CIB-UABCS-CICIMAR IPN. Mexico, 111-118.
McCay, Bonnie J. Saudiel Ramirez-Sanchez, and Wendy Weisman. 2008. Report on Field work trips to Baja California and Baja California Sur in November, 2007 and May, 2008. July 31, 2008
Micheli, F., G. Shester, J. Wilson, S. Lluch Cota. Progress report for the Marine Stewardship Council lobster certification assessment. January 2007. 21 pp.
Shester, G., S. Lluch Cota and F. Micheli. Progress report for the Marine Stewardship Council lobster certification assessemnt. April 2008.
Micheli F., and S. Lluch Cota. Progress reports for FEDECOOP (Federaccion des Cooperativas Pesqueras de Baja California), March 2006, November 2006, February 2007, March 2008.
Micheli, F. et al. Progress reports for the administration of the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve. February 2007, 59 pp.
Serviere, E., S. Guzman del Proo, F. Micheli, R. Martone, A. Haupt. Report to CONAPESCA. March 2008. 21 pp.
Serviere, E., S. Guzman del Proo, F. Micheli, R. Martone, A. Haupt. Report to CONAPESCA. October 2006. 24 pp. E. Serviere, S. Guzman del Proo, F. Micheli, R. Martone, A. Haupt.
Gonzalez, L., C. Abshire, B. McCay, E. Serviere, F. Micheli, R. Martone, A. Haupt. Report to The Secreteriat de Relaciones Exteriores and CONAPESCA (federal agencies in Mexico). March 2009. The report gives a detailed summary of the field research activities carried by the ecological and social groups in Baja California, Mexico.
Semblanza (written history) of the cooperative “Leyes de Reforma”, by Martin Romero Liero, with contributions by Wendy Weisman (in progress).
Urciaga García José. 2006. “Desarrollo y Sustentabilidad. Una aproximación a sus enfoques, dimensiones, escalas e indicadores. En Luis F. Beltrán, José Urciaga García y Alfredo Ortega Rubio. Desarrollo Sustentable. Mito o Realidad. CIBNOR, la Paz BCS.
Other Products
Audio archive, oral history interviews with residents of Bahia Asuncion and Punta Prieta (Weisman and Romero-Liera).
E. Serviere-Zaragoza, S.A. Guzmán del Próo, A. Mazariegos-Villareal, C.A. Pacheco-Ayub, J.J. Bautista-Romero, Ma. T. Rodríguez-Valenzuela, L. Parada-Valdez, O. Ramos-Aranda. 2006. Base Bibliográfica del Proyecto “Relación entre los procesos socio-económicos y biofísicos en ecosistemas costeros marinos de Baja California.” Database of ecological and natural history studies conducted in the study region. This is a compilation of published articles, theses and reports, available as pdf files on Cds, that is a resource available to researchers and students at the institutions involved in this project.
G. Ponce. 2007. Videotape library of interviews with fishermen of the study region (total 14 hours)
Gonzalez-Guzman, L.I. 2006. Surfing the Current! A 5th grade student lesson on ocean circulation. University of Texas at Austin.
Gonzalez-Guzman, L.I. 2006. The Web of Life in Oceans. A 5th grade student lesson on marine community ecology. University of Texas at Austin.
Photo library, ecological and fishing communities, fisheries (G. Shester)
Photo library, Vizcaino and Cedros fishing communities (McCay, Weisman, Cruz)
Project website www.bajacaliforniabiocomplexity.org designed by Patrice Mailloux-Huberdeau with the support of L. Gonzalez and T. H. Keitt.
Shester, G. 2007. Informational pamphlet of the objectives and activities of the Baja Biocomplexity Project. The pamphlet was distributed among fishing cooperative members in March 2007.
Lluch-Cota, S.E. 2009. Aristas de la diversidad biológica. Ciencia y Desarrollo. On line. Sept2009