Flora of the Municipality of Huatabampo,
Sonora, Mexico.
Authors: Thomas R. Van Devender, Ana L. Reina-G., Samuel L. Friedman, and Andrew C. Sanders.
Presented by Thomas R. Van Devender
Thomas R. Van Devender was the Senior Research Scientist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona for 25 years. He has over 150 publications on local floras, biogeography, paleoecology, desert grassland, ethnobotany, the Madrean Archipelago/Sky Islands Region, and Sonoran amphibians, reptiles, insects, and mammals, including jaguars and ocelots. He has collected nearly 30,000 herbarium specimens in Sonora, which are mostly deposited in the ARIZ, USON, and MEXU herbaria.
From 2009 to 2014, he managed the Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) project at Sky Island Alliance to document the diversity of plants and animals in the Sky Island mountain ranges in Sonora. In May 2015, he became the Manager of the Madrean Discovery Expeditions (MDE) at Greater Good Charities. Since 2009, he has organized 20 binational expeditions with large volunteer groups of taxonomic specialists, land managers, professors, students, and photographers to make biotic observations in Sonoran Sky Islands. These biological records and high-resolution images are publicly available to support research, conservation, and education in the MDE (Madreandiscovery.org) database, which is the best source of biological records for Sonora.
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