BIOLOGY OF THE RIO GRANDE BORDER REGION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Lynne E. Johnson
ASCI Corporation, 1365 Beverly Road, McLean, Virginia 22101

Linda J. Jacobs
U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Midwest Science Center, 4200 New Haven Road, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Diana Papoulias
U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Midwest Science Center, 4200 New Haven Road, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Abstract. This bibliography includes 1,913 references to the literature of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte). The specific geographic area covered extends 100 km on either side of the river from Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. The bibliography focuses on the biological literature, divided into major subject areas, and also includes supporting literature from the physical and environmental sciences.

Key words: Big Bend National Park, botany, Chihuahuan Desert, ecology, Mexico, New Mexico, pollution, Texas, water quality, zoology

Funding to compile and produce this bibliography was provided by the USGS. Biological Resource Division's Lower Rio Grande Ecosystem Initiative which is administered and coordinated by the Columbia Environmental Research Center (formerly Environmental and Contaminants Research Center) in Columbia, Missouri.

Photo courtesy of Ken Osborn, U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Rocky Mountain Mapping Center, Denver, Colorado