Publications (Papers)

 

Numbering corresponds to CV (see “Books” page for others).   * Peer reviewed scientific work


1.   *1971. Brusca, R.C.  A new species of Leptohyphes from Mexico (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae).  Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47(2): 146-148.  Brusca 1973 Leptohyphes alleni.PDF


2.   *1972. Brusca, R.C. and J. Haig.  Range extensions of porcelain and hermit crabs in the Gulf of California.  Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 71(1): 56.


3.   1973. Brusca, R.C.  The fiddler crabs of the Gulf of California, Part I: Ecology.  The Stomatopod 3(1): 16-17.


4.   1973. Brusca, R.C.  The fiddler crabs of the Gulf of California, Part II: Taxonomy.  The Stomatopod 3(2): 38-40.


5.   *1973. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca.  New species of Leptohyphinae from Mexico and Central America (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae).  Canad. Entomol. 105: 83-95.  Allen & Brusca 1973 New Leptohyphinae.PDF


7.   *1973. Brusca, R.C. & R.K. Allen.  A new species of Choroterpes from Mexico (Insecta: Ephemeroptera).  J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 46: 137-139.  Allan & Brusca1973 New Coroterpes from Mexico.PDF


8.   *1973. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca.  The known geographic distribution of the Mexican mayfly genera in North America (Insecta, Ephemeroptera).  Proc. First Internat. Conf. Ephemeroptera.  E.J.  Brill, Leiden, Holland.  Pp. 49-63.  Allan & Brusca 1973 Mexican Mayfly Biogeography.PDF


9.   1974. Brusca, R.C.  La Paz, the City of Peace. Part I. The Region of La Paz and its History.  The Stomatopod 4(l): 16-18.


10.   1975. Brusca, R.C.  Report of the Alpha Helix Baja California Expedition, Zoological classification.  In, Alpha Helix Research Program, 1972-1974.  Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., Univ. Calif. San Diego: 72-73.


11.   1975. Hager, L.P., R.H. White, P.F. Hollenberg, R.C. Brusca, D.L. Doubeck, and R. Guerrero.  A survey of organic halogens in marine organisms.  Report of the Alpha Helix Baja California Expedition.  In, Alpha Helix Research Program, 1972-1974.  Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., Univ. Calif. San Diego: 73-75.


12.  *1975.  Krejcarek, G. E., R. H. White, L. P. Hager, W. O. McClure, R. D. Johnson, K. L. Rinehart, J. A. McMillan, I. C. Paul, P. D. Shaw and R. C. Brusca.  A rearranged dibromotryosine metabolite from the sponge Verongia aurea.  Tetrahedron Letters 8: 507-510.


13.   *1975. Snyder-Conn, E. & R.C. Brusca.  Shrimp population dynamics and fishery impact in the northern Gulf of California.   Ciencias Marinas 2: 54-67.  Snyder-Conn and Brusca 1975 N Gulf shrimp.pdf


14.   *1976. Rinehart, K.L., W.O. McClure, L.P. Hager & R.C. Brusca.  A survey of organic halogens in marine organisms.  Proc. Food & Drugs from the Sea Conference, 1974.  J. Mar. Tech. Soc., pp. 421-428.


15.   *1976. Brusca, R.C.  Evolución geologica del norte del Golfo de California y comentarios sobre su fauna.  In, Sonora: Antropologia del Desierto, Session de Ecologia del Desierto de Sonora.  Inst. Nac. Anthro. Hist., pp. 85-93.


16.   *1977. Brusca, R.C. & D.A. Thomson.  The Pulmo Reef of Baja California - true coral reef formation in the Gulf of California.  Ciencias Marinas 1(3): 37-53.  Brusca & Thomson 1977 Pulmo Reef.pdf


17.   1977. Brusca, R.C. & J. Coyer.  Food resource dynamics and utilization in a Channel Island Macrocystis habitat.  In, The Planning and Management of California's Coastal Resources.  Univ. So. Calif. Sea Grant Ann. Rpts., pp. 20-21.


18.   *1977. Brusca, R.C. & B.R. Wallerstein.  The marine isopod crustaceans of the Gulf of California. I. Family Idoteidae.  Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 2634: 1-17.  Brusca & Wallerstein 1977 Gulf Idoteids-1.pdf


19.   *1977. Brusca, R.C.  Range extensions and new host records of cymothoid isopods (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) in the east Pacific.  Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 76(2): 128-131. Brusca 1977, New cymothoid records.pdf


20.   *1978. Allen, R.K. & R.C. Brusca.  Generic revisions of mayfly nymphs. II. Thraulodes in North and Central America (Leptophlebiidae).  Canad. Entomol. 110: 413-433. Allan & Brusca 1978 Thraulodes II.PDF


21.   1978. Coyer, J. & R.C. Brusca.  Food resource dynamics and utilization in a Channel Island Macrocystis habitat [update].  Pp. 18-20 in, The Planning and Management of California's Coastal Resources.  Univ. So. Calif. Sea Grant Ann. Rpt.


22.   *1978. Brusca, R.C.  Studies on the cymothoid fish symbionts of the eastern pacific (Isopoda: Cymothoidae). I. Biology of Nerocila californica.  Crustaceana 34(2): 141-154. Brusca 1978, Nerocila californica.pdf


23.   *1978. Brusca, R.C. and M. Ninos.  The status of Cirolana californiensis Schultz and Cirolana deminuta Menzies and George, with a key to the California species of Cirolana (Isopoda: Cirolanidae).  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 91(2): 379-385.  Brusca & Ninos 1978, CA Cirolanidae.pdf


25.   *1978. Brusca, R.C.  Studies on the cymothoid fish symbionts of the Eastern Pacific (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae). II. Biology and systematics of Lironeca vulgaris.  Occ. Paps. Allan Hancock Fdn. (n. ser.) 2: 1-19. Brusca 1978, Lironeca vulgaris.pdf


26.   *1979. Brusca, R.C. and B.R. Wallerstein.  Zoogeographic patterns of idoteid isopods in the northeast Pacific, with a review of shallow-water zoogeography for the region.  Bull. Biol. Soc. Wash. 3: 67-105.  Brusca & Wallerstein 1979 E. Pacicfic Biogeography.PDF


27.   *1979. Brusca, R.C. & B.R. Wallerstein.  The marine isopod crustaceans of the Gulf of California. II. Idoteidae. New genus, new species, new records, and comments on the morphology, taxonomy and evolution within the family.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 92(2): 253-271. Brusca & Wallerstein 1979, Idoteids.pdf


28.   1979. Brusca, R.C. & M. K. Wicksten.  Heisler Park Ecological Reserve, Orange County, CA.  California Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt. 79-2: 1-29.  Brusca & Wicksten1979 Heisler Park Reserve survey.pdf


29.   1979. Brusca, R.C.  Irvine Coast Marine Life Refuge, Orange County, CA. California Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt. 79-3: 1-30.  Brusca 1979 Irvine Beach Rpt.pdf


30.   1979. Brusca, R.C.  Newport Beach Marine Life Refuge, Orange County, CA. California Marine Waters, Areas of Special Biological Significance, Calif. State Reconn. Surv. Rpt. 79-4: 1-25.  Brusca 1979 Newport Beach Rpt.pdf


31.   1980. Brusca, R.C.  The Allan Hancock Foundation of the University of Southern California.  Assoc. Systematics Collections Newsletter 8(1): 1-7.  Brusca 1980 AHF.pdf


33.   1980. Brusca, R.C. & D.M. Perry.  The function of the shell spine in the predaceous intertidal snail Acanthina spirata.  Amer. Zool. 20(4): 919 [abstract].


34.   *1980. Thun, M. & R.C. Brusca.  On the status of the eastern Pacific cymothoid fish parasite Braga occidentalis Boone, and its synonymy with B. patagonica Schioedte and Meinert (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae). Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 79(3): 130-132.  Thun & Brusca 1980 Braga.PDF


35.   *1981. Rinehart, K.L. and 24 other authors.  Marine natural products as sources of antiviral, antimicrobial, and antineoplastic agents.  Pure & Applied Chemistry 53: 795-817.  Rinehart et al 1981 Marine Natural Products.pdf


36.   *1981. Brusca, R.C.  A monograph on the Isopoda Cymothoidae (Crustacea) of the Eastern Pacific.  Zool. J. Linn. Soc. (London) 73(2): 117-199.  Brusca 1981 Cymothoid Monogr.pdf


37.   *1982. Wallerstein, B.R. & R.C. Brusca.  Fish predation: A preliminary study of its role in the zoogeography and evolution of shallow-water idoteid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae).  J. Biogeography 9: 135-150.  Wallerstein & Brusca 1982 Predation on Idoteids.pdf


38.   *1982. Bruce, N.L., R.C. Brusca, & P.M. Delaney.  The status of the isopod families Corallanidae Hansen, 1890 and Excorallanidae Stebbing, 1904 (Flabellifera).  J. Crustacean Biol. 2(3): 464-468. Bruce et al 1982 Status of Corallanidae & Excorallanidae.pdf


39.   *1983. Brusca, R.C.  A monograph on the isopod family Aegidae in the tropical Eastern Pacific. I. The genus Aega.  Allan Hancock Fdn., Monogr. Mar. Biol., No. 12: 1-39. Brusca 1983 Aegidae.pdf


40.   *1983. Brusca, R.C.  Two new idoteid isopods from Baja California and the Gulf of California (Mexico) and an analysis of the evolutionary history of the genus Colidotea (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae).  Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 20(4): 69-79. Brusca 1983, Idoteids.pdf


41.   *1983. Brusca, R.C. and M.R. Gilligan.  Tongue replacement in a marine fish (Lutjanus guttatus) by a parasitic isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda).  Copeia 3: 813-816.  Brusca & Gilligan 1983 Tongue Replacement.pdf


42.   *1984. Brusca, R.C.  Phylogeny, evolution and biogeography of the marine isopod subfamily Idoteinae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae).  Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 20(7): 99-134.  Brusca 1984 Idoteine Evolution.pdf


43.   1985. Brusca R.C.  Corals and Coral Reefs of the Galapagos Islands, by P.W. Glynn and G.M. Wellington (with an Annotated List of the Scleractinian Corals of the Galapagos, by J.W. Wells). [book review]  Environ. Conserv. (Geneva), 12(2): 191-192.


44.   *1985. Stepien, C.A. & R.C. Brusca.  Nocturnal attacks on nearshore fishes in southern California by crustacean zooplankton.  Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 25: 91-105.  Stepien & Brusca 1985 Isopod Predation.pdf


45.   1985. Brusca, R.C.  The Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, by S.L. Sutton & D.M. Holdich (eds.). [book review] Science, 230(4726): 659.  Brusca 1985 Review in Science.pdf


46   *1985. Delaney, P.M. & R.C. Brusca.  Two new species of Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Flabellifera: Tridentellidae) from California, with a rediagnosis and comments on the family and a key to the genera of Tridentellidae and Corallanidae.  J. Crustacean Biol. 5(4): 728-742.  Delaney & Brusca 1985 Two new species of Tridentella.pdf


47.   *1985. Brusca, R.C. & E.W. Iverson.  A guide to the marine isopod Crustacea of Pacific Costa Rica. Revista Biología Tropical 33 (Suppl. 1): 1-77.  Brusca & Iverson 1985 Costa Rica isopods.pdf


48.   1985. Brusca, R.C. & R. Wetzer.  Marshes of the Ocean Shore, by J.V. Siry. [book review] Environmental Professional 7(2): 191-192.


49.   *1986. McClure, W.O., D.E. Baxter, R.C. Brusca, R.D. Crosland, T.H. Hsiao, M.L. Koenig, J.V. Martin & J.E. Yoshino.  Studies of two novel presynaptic toxins, pp. 1203-1214 in, I. Hanin (ed.), Dynamics of Cholinergic Function.  Plenum Press, N.Y.  McClure et al 1986 Two novel presynaptic toxins.pdf


50.   *1987. Brusca, R.C.  Biogeographic relationships of Galapagos marine isopod crustaceans.  Bull. Mar. Sci. 41(2): 268-281. Brusca 1987, Galapagos isopods.pdf


51.   *1987. Wetzer, R., P.M. Delaney, & R.C. Brusca.  Politolana wickstenae new species, a new cirolanid isopod from the Gulf of Mexico, and a review of the "Conilera genus-group" of Bruce (1968).  Contrb. Sci., L.A. Co. Natural History Museum, No. 392: 1-10.  Wetzer et al 1987 Politolana.pdf


52.   *1987. Brusca, R.C. & J.R. Weinberg.  A new isopod crustacean from Pacific Panama, Excirolana chamensis new species (Isopoda: Flabellifera: Cirolanidae).  Contrb. Sci., L.A. Co. Natural History Museum, No. 392: 11-17. Brusca & Weinberg 1987, New Cirolanidae.pdf


53.   *1988. Guzman, H.M., V.L. Obando, R.C. Brusca & P.M. Delaney.  Aspects of population biology of the marine isopod Excorallana tricornis occidentalis Richardson, 1905 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Corallanidae) at Cano Island, Pacific Costa Rica.  Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(1): 77-87. Guzman et al 1988, Excorallana.pdf


54.   1989. Brusca, R.C.  Foreword, in, A. Kerstitch, Sea of Cortez Marine Invertebrates. A Guide for the Pacific Coast, Mexico to Ecuador.  Sea Challengers Press, Monterey, CA.  pp. i-iii.


55.   *1989. Perry, D.M. and R.C. Brusca.  Effects of the root-boring isopod Sphaeroma peruvianum on red mangrove forests.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 57: 287-292. Perry & Brusca 1989, Sphaeroma peruvianum.pdf


56.   1989. Brusca, R.C.  Science and natural history museums. I. What is science?  Upstairs. A Newsletter of the San Diego Natural History Museum Science Division 2(4): 3-5.


57.   1989. Brusca, R.C.  Provisional keys to the genera Cirolana, Gnathia, and Limnoria known from California waters.  SCAMIT [Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists] Newsletter 8(4): 17-21.


58.   1990. Brusca, R.C.  Science and natural history museums. II. Science in the museum.  Upstairs. A Newsletter of the San Diego Natural History Museum Science Division 3(1/2): 3-5.


60.  1990. Brusca, R.C.  Proceedings of the Second Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, Monitore Zoologico Italiano, n.s., Monogr. 4: 1-512.  [book review]  J. Crustacean Biology 10(3): 568-570.


61.   1990. Brusca, R.C.  Comment on the proposed designation of Lysianax cubensis Stebbing, 1897 as the type species of Shoemakerella Pirlot, 1936 (Crustacea, Amphipoda).  Bull. Zool. Nomen. 47(3): 213.


62.   1990.  Brusca, R.C. and R. Wetzer.  Tropical deforestation and coral reefs.  Field Notes, San Diego Natural History Museum 3(4): 6-7.


63.   1991. Brusca, R.C.  Guide to the Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Caribbean, by B. Kensley and M. Schotte. [book review]  Quarterly Rev. Biol. 66: 98-99.


64.   *1991. Wetzer, R., H.G. Kuck, and P. Baez, R.C. Brusca, and L.M. Jurkevics.  Catalog of the Isopod Crustacea type collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., Tech. Rpt. No. 3: 1-59.  Brusca et al. 1991, LACM Types.pdf


65.   *1991. Brusca, R.C. and H.-G. Müller.  Skuphonura kensleyi n.sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda), a new anthuridean species from the Caribbean coast of Colombia.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104(3): 593-602. Brusca & Muller 1991, Skuphonura.pdf


66.   *1991. Chavez, F.P. and R.C. Brusca.  The Galapagos Islands and their relation to oceanographic processes in the tropical Pacific, Pp. 9-33 [Chapter 1] in, M. James (ed.), Galapagos Marine Invertebrates.  Plenum Publ. Corp., Vol. 8 of Topics in GeobiologyChavez & Brusca 1991 Galapagos Oceanography.PDF


67.   *1991.  Brusca, R.C. and G.D.F. Wilson.  A phylogenetic analysis of the Isopoda (Crustacea) with some classificatory recommendations.  Mem. Queensland Mus. 31: 143-204.  Brusca & Wilson 1991 Isopod Phylogeny.pdf


69.   1992.  Brusca, R.C.  Dedication to John S. Garth, pp. iii-iv in  Benthic Macro-Crustaceans of the Eastern Tropical Pacific [Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Benthic Macro-Crustaceans of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, Mazatlán, March 1990].  San Diego Natural History Museum and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  134 pp.  [Proceedings 9-27, San Diego Society of Natural History]  Brusca 1992 John Garth dedication.pdf


70.   *1992.  Müller, H.-G. and R.C. Brusca.  Validation and redescription of Iais singaporensis Menzies & Barnard, 1951 (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae), a commensal with Sphaeroma triste Heller, 1865 from a Malayasian coral reef.  Zoologischer Anzeiger 229(1/2): 73-82.  Muller & Brusca 1992 Iais singaporensis.PDF


71.   *1992.  Brusca, R.C. and S. France.  The genus Rocinela (Crustacea: Isopoda: Aegidae) in the tropical eastern Pacific.  Zoological J. Linnean Soc. (London) 106: 231-275. Brusca & France 1992 Rocinela.pdf


72.   1992.  Simovich, M.A., J.L. King and R.C. Brusca.  The branchiopod community. Vol. 2 in Simovich, M.A. et al., Invertebrate Survey, 1991-1993: PGT-PG&E California Pipeline Expansion Project.  Report to Bechtel Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA


73.   1993.  Simovich, M.A., R.C. Brusca and J.L. King.  Crustacean and insect communities. Vol. 3 in Simovich, M.A. et al., Invertebrate Survey, 1991-1993: PGT-PG&E California Pipeline Expansion Project.  Report to Bechtel Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA


74.   *1993.  Brusca, R.C.  The Arizona/Sea of Cortez years of J. Laurens Barnard.  J. Natural History 27(4): 727-730.  Brusca 1993 J. Barnard's Gulf Years.PDF


75.   1993.  Cadien, D. and R.C. Brusca.  Anthuridean isopods (Crustacea) of California and the temperate northeast Pacific.  SCAMIT [Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists] Newsletter 12(6): 1-26.  Cadien & Brusca 1993 Anthuideans of CA.PDF


76.   1993.  King, J.L., R.C. Brusca and M.A. Simovich.  Crustacean communities of northern California vernal pools.  American Zoologist 33(5): 79(A) [published abstract].


77.   *1995.  Brusca, R.C., R. Wetzer, and S. France.  Cirolanidae (Crustacea; Isopoda; Flabellifera) of the tropical eastern Pacific.  Proceedings San Diego Natural History Society, No. 30, 96 pp. Brusca et al 1995 Cirolanidae.pdf


78.   *1996.  King, J.L., M.A. Simovich, and R.C. Brusca.  Endemism, species richness, and ecology of crustacean assemblages in northern California vernal pools.  Hydrobiologia 328: 85-116.  King et al 1996 Vernal Pools.pdf


80.   *1997.  Wetzer, R., R.C. Brusca and G.D.F. Wilson.  The Order Isopoda. Introduction to the Marine Isopoda.  Pp. 1-8 in J.A. Blake and P. H. Scott (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 11. The Crustacea, Part 2: Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea.  Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA. Wetzer et al 1997, So CA benthic isopods.pdf


81.   *1997.  Wetzer, R. and R.C. Brusca.  The Order Isopoda. Descriptions of the Species of the Suborders Anthuridea, Epicaridea, Flabellifera, Gnathiidea and Valvifera.  Pp. 9-58 in J.A. Blake and P. H. Scott (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 11. The Crustacea, Part 2: Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea.  Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.  [pdf-see above]


82.   *1997.  Brusca, G.J., R.C. Brusca and S.F. Gilbert.  Characteristics of Metazoan Development.  Chapter 1 (pp. 3-19) in S.F. Gilbert & A.M. Raunio (eds.) Embryology: Constructing the Organism.  Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.  Brusca et al 1997 Metazoan Embryology.PDF


83.   1997.  Brusca, R.C.  Isopoda. Version 06 August 1997.  http://tolweb.org/Isopoda/6320/1997.08.06, in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ (Electronic Publication)


84.   1998.  Brusca, R.C.  Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Vols. 13 and 15, by R. Harrison (ed.). [book review]  Bulletin of Marine Science 62(1): 297-298.  Brusca 1998 Book Review, Microscopic Anatomy Inverts.pdf


85.   *2000.  Brusca, R.C.  Unraveling the History of Arthropod Biodiversification.  In, Our Unknown Planet: Recent Discoveries and the Future. Proceedings of the 45th Ann. Systematics Symposium, Missouri Botanical Garden.  Ann. Missouri Botanical Garden 87:13-25.  [Abridged version also published in Kansas Biology Teacher 9(2): 54-57]  Brusca 2000 Arthropod diversification.pdf


87.   *2001.  Riseman, S., A. M. Pires and R. C. Brusca.  A new species of Politolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the south Brazilian shelf. Pp. 51-61 in, B. Kensley & R.C. Brusca (eds), Isopod Systematics and Evolution.  Crustacean Issues 13, Balkema, Rotterdam.  Riseman et al 2001 New Politolana from Brazil.PDF


88.   2001. Brusca, R.C., V. Coelho and S. Taiti. 2001. A Guide to the Coastal Isopods of California.  http://www.tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=3004 (Electronic Publication)


89.   2001.  Brusca, R.C., J. Campoy Fabela, C. Castillo Sánchez, R. Cudney-Bueno, L.T. Findley, J. Garcia-Hernández, E. Glenn, I. Granillo, M.E. Hendrickx, J. Murrieta, C. Nagel, M. Román, P. Turk-BoyerA Case Study of Two Mexican Biosphere Reserves. The Upper Gulf of California/Colorado River Delta and Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserves.  2000 UNESCO Conference on Biodiversity and Society, Columbia University Earthscape (an electronic journal), www.earthscape.org/rr1/cbs01.html.


90.   2001.  Brusca, R.C.  Origin of the Hexapoda. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 37(1/2): 1-304.  T. Deuve, Editor.  [Book Review].  Journal of Crustacean Biology 21(4): 1084-1086.  Brusca 2001 Review of "Origin of Hexapoda".pdf


91.   *2002.  Riseman, S. and R. C. Brusca.  A monograph on the isopod genus Politolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae).  Zoological Journal, Linnean Society of London 134: 57-140.  Riseman & Brusca, 2002 Politolana.pdf


92.   2002.  Brusca, R. C.  A Sapphire Sea in the Sonoran Desert.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum News, 3(3): 2-4.


93.   *2002.  Hendrickx, M. E., R. C. Brusca and G. Ramirez Resendiz.  Biodiversity of Macrocrustaceans in the Gulf of California, Mexico.  Pp. 349-367, in M.E. Hendrickx (ed.), Contributions to the Study of East Pacific Crustaceans [Contribuciones al Estudio de los Crustaceos del Pacifico Este], Volume 1.  Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, Mexico.  Hendirckx et al 2002 Gulf Crustacea.pdf


94.   2002  Brusca, R. C.  On the Vermilion Sea.  Pp. 2-9 in S. Phillips (ed.), The Sea of Cortez,  Sonorensis, Winter 2002.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.  Brusca 2002 Vermillion Sea.pdf


95.   2002  Brusca, R. C.  Biodiversity in the Northern Gulf of California. (Biodiversidad en el Golfo de California Norte).  CEDO News 10(1): 1-45.  Brusca 2002 CEDO article.PDF


96.   2002.  Brusca, R. C. and G. P. Nabhan.  Migratory Pollinators and Their Nectar Corridors in the Southwestern U.S. and Northwestern Mexico.  Final Report to the Turner Foundation (Atlanta, GA) and Turner Endangered Species fund (Bozeman, MT).  126 pp.


97.   2002.  Dimmitt, M. and R. C. Brusca.  Endangered species and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  Endangered Species Bulletin 27(2): 8-11.  Dimmitt & Brusca 2002 ASDM Endg Spp.pdf


98.   *2002.  Hendrickx M. E. and R. C. Brusca.  Biodiversidad de los invertebrados marinos de Sinaloa.  Pp. 141-163 in, J. L. Cifuentes Lemus and J. Gaxiola López (eds.), Atlas de Sinaloa.  Colegio de Ciencias de Sinaloa, Mexico (442 pp).  Hendrickx & Brusca 2002 Sinaloan Inverts.pdf


100.    2002.  Brusca, R. C.  Desert Ecology: An Introduction to Life in the Arid Southwest, John Sowell. Univ. Utah Press.  [Book Review]  Natural Resources Journal, Univ. New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, pp. 685-687.  Brusca 2002 Book Review.PDF


101.   *2003.  Moore, W. and R. C. Brusca.  A monograph on the isopod genus Colopisthus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) with the description of a new genus.  Journal of Natural History (London) 37: 1329-1399.  Moore & Brusca 2003 Colopisthus.pdf


102.   2003.  Brusca, R. C. and R. J. Edison. Introduction.  Pp. 1-3 in S. Phillips (ed.), The Santa Cruz River.  Sonorensis, Winter 2003.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


104.   2004.  Brusca, R. C.  The Gulf of California – an Overview.  Pp. 1-8, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


105.   2004.  Brusca, R.C.  A History of Discovery in the Northern Gulf of California.  Pp. 9-24, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.  (updated History of Discovery in Gulf.pdf)


106.   2004.  Brusca, R.C.  A Brief History of Sonora.  Pp. 25-34, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. (updated History of Sonora.pdf)


107.   2004.  Brusca, R.C., E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Invertebrates [of the Northern Gulf of California].  Pp. 35-107, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


108.   2004.  Brusca, R.C.  Fishes [of the Northern Gulf of California].  Pp. 109-115, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


109.   2004.  Brusca, R.C., E. Mellink and E. Kimrey.  Coastal Birds [of the Northern Gulf of California].  Pp. 117-126, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


110.   2004.  Brusca, R.C., L.T. Findley and E. Kimrey.  Marine Reptiles [of the Northern Gulf of California].  Pp. 127-128, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


111.   2004.  Brusca, R.C., L.T. Findley and E. Kimrey.  Marine Mammals [of the Northern Gulf of California].  Pp. 129-132, in R.C. Brusca, E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


112.   2004.  Woo, H., E. Glenn, R.C. Brusca and R. McCourt.  Algae [of the Northern Gulf of California].  Pp. 133-145, in R.C. Brusca, R.C., E. Kimrey and W. Moore.  Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


113.   2004.  Nabhan, G.P. and R.C. Brusca.  Sustainable Seafood and the Fate of the Oceans. A Primer for Arizonans.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.


114.   2004.  Brusca, R.C. and M. Hendrickx.  Invertebrate Biodiversity in the Gulf of California.  Proceedings of the Gulf of California Conference 2004.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.  [published summary]


115.   2004.  Felger, R.C., W.J. Nicols, A. Aguirre, H. Aridijis, L. Bourillón, R.C. Brusca, J. Campoy, A. Cantu, J.-L. Cartron, G.D. Danemann, H. D’Antoni, P.K. Dayton, S.A. Diehn, L. Gerber, J.L. León de la Luz, C. Mártinez del Rio, R.A. Medellín, E.P. Castro and E. Sala.  Escalera Ecológica Initiative: A staircase of reserves through the Gulf of California Corridor.  Proceedings of the Gulf of California Conference 2004, pp. 71-72.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.  [published summary]


117.   2004.  Brusca, R. C.  Foreword, pp. 6-7 in, N. Chambers, Y. Gray and S. Buchmann, Pollinators of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 166 pp. [bilingual]  Brusca 2004 Pollinators, Foreword.pdf


118.   *2004.  Brusca, R. C. and G. C. Bryner.  A Case Study Of Two Mexican Biosphere Reserves: The Upper Gulf of California/Colorado River Delta and Pinacate/Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserves.  Pp. 21-52 in N. E. Harrison and G. C. Bryner (eds.), Science and Politics in the International Environment.  Rowman and Littlefield, New York.  Brusca & Bryner 2004 Upper Gulf etc.pdf


119.   2004.  Dimmitt, M. A, R. C. Brusca and R. Edison.  Introduction.  Pp. 1-3 in S. Phillips (ed.), Climate Change. Sonorensis, Winter 2004.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.  Dimmitt et al 2004 Climate Change.pdf


122.   2005.  Brusca, R. C. and C. Conte.  Invaders of the Sonoran Desert.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum News 6(3): 2-4.


123.   *2005.  McLaughlin, P. A., D. K. Camp, M. V. Angel, E. L. Bousfield, P. Brunel, R. C. Brusca, D. Cadien, A. C. Cohen, K. Conlan, L. G. Eldredge, D. L. Felder, J. W. Goy, T. Haney, B. Hann, R. W. Heard, E. A. Hendrycks, H. H. Hobbs III, J. R. Holsinger, B. Kensley, D. R. Laubitz, S. E. LeCroy, R. Lemaitre, R. F. Maddocks, J. W. Martin, P. Mikkelsen, E. Nelson, W. A. Newman, R. M. Overstreet, W. J. Poly, W. W. Price, J. W. Reid, A. Robertson, D. C. Rogers, A. Ross, M. Schotte, F. R. Schram, C.-T. Shih, L. Watling, G. D. F. Wilson and D. D. Turgeon.  Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans.  American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 31.  Bethesda, MD.  533 pp.  McLaughlin et al. 2005 Crustacea Common & Scientific Names.pdf


124.   *2005.  Brusca, R. C., L. T. Findley, P. A. Hastings, M. E. Hendrickx, J. Torre Cosio and A. M. van der Heiden.  Macrofaunal Biodiversity in the Gulf of California.  Pp. 179-203 in J.-L. E. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R. Felger (eds.), Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico.  Oxford University Press, NY.  Brusca et al 2005 Gulf Macrofauna.pdf


125.   *2005.  Whitmore, R. C., R. C. Brusca, J. L. León de la Luz, P. González-Zamorano, R. Mendoza-Salgado, E. S. Amador-Silva, G. Holguin, F. Galván-Magaña, P. A. Hastings, J.-L. E. Cartron, R. S. Felger, J. A. Seminoff, and C. C. McIvor.  The ecological importance of mangroves in Baja California Sur: Conservation implications for an endangered ecosystem.  Pp. 298-333 in J.-L. E. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R. S. Felger (eds.), Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation in Northern Mexico.  Oxford University Press, NY. Whitmore et al 2005 Gulf Mangroves.pdf


127.   2005.   Brusca, R. C.  Where the Desert Meets the Sea. Pp. 20-24 in C. Conte (ed.), Conservation Without Borders.  Sonorensis, Winter 2005.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.  Brusca 2005 Desert Meets the Sea.pdf


128.   *2006.  Glenn, E. P., P. L. Nagler, R. C. Brusca and O. Hinojosa-Huerta.  Coastal wetlands of the northern Gulf of California: Inventory and conservation status.  Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 16: 5-28.  Glenn et al 2006 Wetlands of N Gulf, with Erratum.pdf


129.   2006.  Brusca, R. C., R. Cudney-Bueno, M. Moreno-Báez.  Gulf of California esteros and estuaries: analysis, state of knowledge and conservation priority recommendations.  Final Report to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  60 pp., plus two appendices (esteros/estuaries database and Northern Gulf of California Atlas).  Packard Final Report SMALL.pdf


130.   2006.  Brusca, R. C. and C. Conte.  Rivers in the Sand. Arizona-Sonora Riparian Habitats.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum News 7(2): 2-5.


131.   2006.  Brusca, R. C.  Introduction.  Pp. 1-3 in C. Conte (ed.), Conservation Without Borders.  Sonorensis, Winter 2006.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ.


132.   *2007.  Brusca, R. C.  Invertebrate Biodiversity in the Northern Gulf of California.  Pp. 418- 504, in, R. S. Felger and W. Broyles (eds.), Dry Borders. Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.  Brusca 2007 Gulf Invert Diversity.pdf


133.   2007.  Brusca, R. C.  Peracarida.  Pp. 140-144 in, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  McGraw-Hill, New York.  Brusca 2007 Peracarida, McGraw-Hill.PDF


135.   *2007.  Lluch-Cota, S. E., E. A. Aragón-Noriega, F. Arreguín-Sánchez, D. Aurioles-Gamboa, J. J. Bautista-Romero, R. C. Brusca, R. Cervantes-Duarte, R. Cortés-Altamirano, P. Del-Monte-Luna, A. Esquivel-Herrera,-Cervantes, M. Kahru, M. Lavín, d. Lluch-Belda, D. B Lluch-Cota, J. López-Martinez, S. G. Marinone, M. O. Nevárez-Martinez, S. Ortega-Garcia, E. Palacios-Castro, A. Parés-Sierra, G. Ponce-Diaz, M. Ramírez-Rodriguez, C. A. Salinas-Zavala, R. A. Schwartzlose and A. P. Sierra-Beltrán.  The Gulf of California: Review of Ecosystem Status and Sustainability Challenges.  Progress in Oceanography 73: 1-26.  Lluch et al 2007 Gulf Oceanography.pdf


136.   *2007.  Brusca, R. C., V. Coelho and S. Taiti.  Isopods, in J. Carlton (ed.). The Light and Smith Manual: The Intertidal Invertebrates of Central California and Oregon.  4th Ed., J. Carlton (ed.).  University of California Press, Berkeley.  Pp. 503-542.  Brusca et al 2007 Light's Manual.pdf


137.   2007.  Equihua Z., Clementina and R. C. Brusca.  El Discreto Encanto de las Cochinillas.  ?Como Ves?, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 9(107): 30-33 [This popular article is now part of the science curriculum in Mexico City high schools.].  Equihua & Brusca 2007 Cochinillas.pdf


137.   *2007.  Hendrickx, M. E., R. C. Brusca, M. Cordero and G. Ramírez R.  Marine and brackish-water molluscan biodiversity in the Gulf of California, Mexico.  Scientia Marina 71(4): 637-647.  Hendrickx et al. 2007 Mollusca.pdf


138.   2007.  Brusca, R. C.  Father Eusebio Kino, the Baja California Peninsula, and the Sea of Cortez.  Pp. 6-13 in, C. Conte (ed.), The Legacy of Father Kino, Sonorensis, Winter 2007, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  Brusca 2007 Kino & Gulf.pdf


140.   2007.  Brusca, R. C.  Harvesting the Sea of Cortez. From Kino’s Era to Modern Times. Pp. 42-47 in, C. Conte (ed.), The Legacy of Father Kino, Sonorensis, Winter 2007, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum).  Brusca 2007 Kino & Fisheries.pdf


142.   *2007.  Hendrickx, M. E. and R. C. Brusca.  Distribución de invertebrados marinos endémicos en el Golfo de California, México.  XII Congresso Latino-Americano de Ciéncias do Mar, Florianópolis, 15 a 19 de Abril de 2007.  Memorias AOCEANO – Associação Brasileira de Oceanografia, 4 pp.  Hendrickx & Brusca 2007 Gulf Endemics.pdf


143.   2008.  Brusca, R. C. and M. Hendrickx.  The Gulf of California Invertebrate Database:
The Invertebrate Portion of the Macrofauna Golfo Database.  www.desertmuseum.org/center/seaofcortez/database.php


144.   *2009.  Brusca, R. C. and I. S. Wehrtmann.  Isopods.  Pp. 257-267 + species lists No. 20.1 and 20.2 (pages 206-211 on CD-ROM), in I. S. Wehrtmann and J. Cortés (eds.), Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America.  Monographiae Biologicae, Vol. 86, Springer, Amsterdam. [In 2 parts; text and tables]  Brusca & Wehrtmann 2009 Costa Rica TEXT.pdf ,   Brusca & Wehrtmann 2009 Costa Rica TABLES.pdf


145.   2009.  Brusca, R. C.  Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands. The Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve.  L.G. Marshall and C. Blake.  [book review]  Vermilion Flycatcher 54(4): 27.  Brusca 2009 Review of Pinacates book.pdf


146.   2009.  Brusca, R. C.  Seafood and the Sea of Cortez. An Ecological Bouillabaisse.  Pp. 20-29 in, C. Conte (ed.), Desert Bounty, Sonorensis, Winter 2009, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  Brusca 2009 Sea of Cortez Seafood.pdf


147.   *2010.  Brusca, R. C.  Introduction.  Pp. 1-5 in, R. C. Brusca (ed), The Gulf of California: Biodiversity and Conservation.  ASDM Studies in Natural History.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press & University of Arizona Press.


148.   *2010.  Brusca, R. C and M. E. Hendrickx.  Invertebrate Biodiversity and Conservation in the Gulf of California.  Pp. 72-95 in, R. C. Brusca (ed), The Gulf of California: Biodiversity and Conservation.  ASDM Studies in Natural History.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press & University of Arizona Press.  Brusca & Hendrickx 2010.pdf


150.   2010.  Brusca, R. C.  Introduction. Pp. 9-11 in, Brusca, R. C., M. A. Dimmitt and G. M. Montgomery (eds.).  Desert Gardens. A Photographic Tour of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  Cool Springs Press, Brentwood, TN.  177 pp.


152.   2010.  Brusca, R. C.  World Book Encyclopedia, on-line and print editions: “Vertebrates” and “Invertebrates.”


153.   2010.  Dimmitt, M. A. and R. C. Brusca.  Plants and insects: a 400 million year co-evolutionary dance.  Pp. 8-11 in, C. Conte (ed.), Our Sonoran Desert Insects, Sonorensis, Winter 2010, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.


154.   2010.  Brusca, R. C.  Conservation Work at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  Pp. 136-137 in, L. M. Brewer, Vanishing Circles. Portraits of Disappearing Wildlife of the Sonoran Desert Region. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Tucson.


155.   2011.  Brusca, R. C.  Foreword.  Pp. i-iii in F. Rose, Mountain Wildflowers of Southern Arizona. A Field Guide to the Santa Catalina Mountains and Other Nearby Ranges.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Tucson.


156.   2011.  Dimmitt, M. A., R. C. Brusca, K. Krebbs, C. L. McIntyre, J. Viers, C. Filippone and A. Berry.  2011.  Natural Resource Condition Assessment: Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Sonoran Institute, Tucson, Arizona.  425 pp.  Dimmitt et al, NPS Final Rpt.pdf


157.  2011.  Funicelli Campbell, C., J. Shrum and R. C. Brusca.  Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) demography at the northeastern extreme of the species’ range.  Final Report to National Park Service, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum/Tonto National Monument.  26 pp. plus numerous appendices.  For a pdf (without appendices) of this report, click here Funicelli et al 2011 Saguaros Report.PDF


158.  *2011.  Brigham, L. A., R. C. Brusca and J. Betancourt.  Cooperation across federal and local jurisdictions for invasive species management: Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) in Southern Arizona.  Pp. 189-200 in, A. R. Leslie and R. G. Westerbrooks (eds.), Invasive Plant Management Issues and Challenges in the United States.  Oxford University Press and American Chemical Society (ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1073), doi: 10.1021/bk-2011-1073.


159.  2012.  Moore, W. and R. C. Brusca. A Brief Guide to the Santa Catalina Mountains Arizona: with a Road Log for the Mt. Lemmon Highway and an Introduction to the Madrean Sky Islands. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press. Tucson, Arizona. 88 pp.  [Assembled for the 3rd Sky Island Conference, Tucson 2012.]


160.  2012.  Brusca, R. C.  The Sonoran Desert’s Spectacular Sea.  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Newsletter 13(4): 5.


162.   *2013.  Moore, W., W. M. Meyer, J. A. Eble, K. Franklin, J. F. Wiens and R. C. Brusca.  Introduction to the Arizona Sky Island Arthropod Project (ASAP): systematics, biogeography, ecology and population genetics of arthropods of the Madrean Sky Islands.  Pp. 144-168 in, G. J. Gottfried, P. F. Ffolliott, B. S. Gebow, L. G. Eskew and L. C. Collins (Comps.), Merging science and management in a rapidly changing world: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago III; 2012 May 1-5, Tucson, AZ; Proceedings. RMRS-P-67.  Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2051.5842  Moore et al 2013.pdf


164.   *2013.  Brusca, R. C., J. F. Wiens, W. M. Meyers, J. Eble, K. Franklin, J. Overpeck, W. Moore.  Dramatic response to climate change in the Southwest: Robert Whittaker’s 1963 Arizona mountain plant transect revisited.  Ecology & Evolution 3(10): 3307-3319, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.720.  Brusca et al. 2013 Catalinas.pdf   SEE REVIEW AT http://uanews.org/story/warming-climate-pushes-plants-up-the-mountain


165.   2013.  Brusca, R. C.  The Natural History of Crustacea. Vol. 1. Functional Morphology & Diversity.  Oxford University Press, Oxford.  [Book Review]  Journal of Crustacean Biology 33(5): 742-743.  Brusca 2013 Review of Watling & Thiel book.pdf


166.   2014.  Brusca, R. C.  Foreword in G. C. Jensen, Crabs and Shrimps of the Pacific Coast. A Guide to Shallow-Water Decapods from Southeastern Alaska to the Mexican Border.   MolaMarine, Bremerton, WA.  Brusca 2014 Foreward to Jensen's Decapod Book.PDF


167.   *2014.  Brusca, R. C., W. M. Meyer, J. T. Overpeck, K. Franklin, J. F. Wiens, J. Eble, W. Moore.  Reply to C. David Bertelsen: Review of plant elevation changes in Arizona.  Phytoneuron 2014-111: 1-4.  Brusca et al 2014 Reply to Bertelsen.pdf


168.   *2015.  Joca, L. K., V. L. Leray, K .S. Zigler and R. C. Brusca.  A new host and reproduction at a small size for the “snapper-chocking isopod” Cymothoa excisa (Isopoda: Cymothoidae).  Journal of Crustacean Biology 35(2): 292-294.  Joca et al 2015 Cymothoa excisa.pdf


169.   *2015.  M. A. Ruggiero, D. P. Gordon, N. Baily, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, T. C. Cavalier-Smith, M. D. Guiry, P. M. Kirk and T. M. Orrell.  A higher level classification of all living organisms.  PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119248.  60 pp.   [Top 10% of all PLOS ONE papers published in 2015Ruggiero et al 2015 Classification of Life UPDATED.pdf


170.   *2015.  Meyer, W. M., J. Eble, K. Franklin, R. B. McManus, S. L. Breantley, J. Henkel, P. E. Marek, W. E. Hall, C. A. Olson, R. McInroy, E. M. Bernal Loaiza, R. C. Brusca and W. Moore.  Ground-dwelling arthropod communities in the Santa Catalina Mountains, a Sky Island range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a baseline for assessing the effects of climate change.  PLOS ONE 10 (9): e0135210. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135210  Meyer et al 2015 Arthropods of Catalinas.pdf


171.   2015  Brusca, R. C.  Sea of Cortez.  Pp. 24-26 in, M. A. Dimmitt, P. W. Comus and L. M. Brewer, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert 2nd ed.  University of California and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Arizona.  Brusca 2015 Sea of Cortez Cpt for NHSD-2.pdf


172.   2015.  Ingram, M. and R. C. Brusca.  Desert Storms.  Pp. 45-54 in, M. A. Dimmitt, P. W. Comus and L. M. Brewer, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert 2nd ed.  University of California and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Arizona.  Brusca 2015 Desert Storms Cpt for NHSD-2.pdf


173.   2015.  Van Devender, T. R. and R. C. Brusca.  Deep History of the Sonoran Desert.  Pp. 63-70 in, M. A. Dimmitt, P. W. Comus and L. M. Brewer, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert 2nd ed.  University of California and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Arizona.  Brusca 2015 Deep History Cpt for NHSD-2.pdf


174.   2015.  Scarborough, R. and R. C. Brusca.  Geologic Origin of the Sonoran Desert.  Pp. 71-84 in, M. A. Dimmitt, P. W. Comus and L. M. Brewer, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert 2nd ed.  University of California and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Arizona.  Brusca 2015 Geology Cpt NHSD-2.pdf


176.   *2016.  Sagarin, R. D., J. Adams, C. A. Blanchette, R. C. Brusca, J. Chorover, J. E. Cole, F. Micheli, A. Munguia-Vega, C. M. Rochman, K Bonine, J. van Haren and P. A. Troch.  Between control and complexity: opportunities and challenges for marine mesocosms.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14(7): 389-396, doi: 10.1002/fee.1313.  Sagarin et al 2016 Mesocosms.pdf


177.   2016.  Brusca, R. C.  Foreword.  Pp. iv-v in,  H. Bertsch and L. E. Aguilar Rosas, Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico/Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México.  Uinversidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico.  Brusca 2016 Foreword to Bertsch & Aguilar.PDF


178.   *2017.  Brusca, R. C., S. Álvarez-Borrego, P. A. Hastings and L. T. Findley.  Colorado River Flow and Biological Productivity in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico.   Earth-Science Reviews 164: 1-30.   Brusca et al 2017 N. Gulf Review.pdf


179.   2017.  Brusca, R. C.  Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems.  A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, S. Harzsch and G. Purschke (eds.).  [book review]  Quarterly Review of Biology.  92: 102-103.  Brusca 2017 Review of Schmidt-Rhaesa et al.pdf


180.   *2017.  Rogers, D. C. and 82 others.  Images are not and should not ever by type specimens: A rebuttal to Garraffoni & Freitas.  Zootaxa 4269(4): 455-459.  Rogers et al. 2017 Photos as holotypes.pdf


181.  2017.  Brusca, R. C., R. Bauer, M. García-Guerrero and M. Wicksten.  Michel E. Hendrickx, recipient of the 2016 The Crustacean Society Excellence in Research Award.  Journal of Crustacean Biology 37(3): 363-364..  Brusca et al 2017 Hendrickx award.pdf


182.  2017.  The collecting success of Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck on the 1940 Sea of Cortez Expedition.  Western Flyer Newsletter, March 2018.


183.  2018.  Brusca, R. C.  Lax science can have negative impacts on conservation: A rebuttal to Lau and Jacobs (2017).  PeerJ Preprints 6:e26767v1  Brusca 2018 Opinion piece in PeerJ.pdf


184.  2018.  Brusca, R. C.  A reply to Jcobs and Lau (2018).  PeerJ Comment, 24 May 2018.  7 pp.  Reply to Jacobs & Lau 2018.pdf


185.  *2018.  H. N. Morzaria-Luna, G. Cruz-Piñon, R. C. Brusca, A. M. López Ortiz, M. Moreno-Báez, H. Reyes-Bonilla and P. Turk-Boyer.  Biodiversity hotspots are not congruent with conservation areas in the Gulf of California.  Biodiversity and Conservation.  doi.org/101007/s1053-018-1631-x  Morzaria-Luna et al 2018 Gulf Biodiversity Hotspots, with Supplemental.pdf


187.  *2019.  Rojas-Bracho, L., R. C. Brusca, S. Álvarez-Borrego, R. L. Brownell, Jr., V. Camacho-Ibar, G. Ceballos, H. de la Cueva, J. García-Hernández, P. A. Hastings, G. Cárdenas-Hinojosa, A. M. Jaramillo Legorreta, R. Medellín, S. L. Mesnick, E. Nieto-García, J. Urbán, E. Velarde, O. Vidal, L. T. Findley, B. L. Taylor.  Unsubstantiated Scientific Claims Can Lead to Tragic Conservation Outcomes.  BioScience 69(1): 12-14, plus Supplemental Material  Rojas-Bracho et al 2018 paper+supplemental.pdf.   SEE ALSO: Letter to Secretary González Blanco (Department of Interior) and Secretary Villalobos Arámbula (Department of Agriculture)


188.   2019.  Rojas-Bracho, L., R. C. Brusca, S. Álvarez-Borrego, R. L. Brownell, Jr., V. Camacho-Ibar, G. Ceballos, H. de la Cueva, J. García-Hernández, P. A. Hastings, G. Cárdenas-Hinojosa, A. M. Jaramillo Legorreta, R. Medellín, S. L. Mesnick, E. Nieto-García, J. Urbán, E. Velarde, O. Vidal, L. T. Findley, B. L. Taylor.   Reply to Flessa and colleagues.  BioScience 69(5): 322-323.   Rojas-Bracho et al 2019 Reply to Flessa.pdf


190.  2019.  Brusca, R. C. La Expedición de Ricketts y Steinbeck al Mar de Cortés.  Pp. 33-36 in, R. B. Primack and O. Vidal, Introducción a la Biología de la Conservación.  Ediciones Científicas Universitarias, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City.  Brusca 2019 La Expedición de Ricketts y Steinbeck.pdf


191.  *2020.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  2020.  Mexico’s Biocultural Diversity in Peril.  Revista Biología Tropical 68(2): 669-691.  Vidal & Brusca 2020 Biocultural Diversity in Mexico.pdf


1992  2020.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  La diversidad biocultural de México está amenazada/Mexico’s biocultural diversity in peril.  El Universal, Opinión, 5 April 2020 (Mexico City).  Vidal-Brusca 2020 Op Ed Biodiversity in Peril.pdf


193.  2020.  Brusca, R. C. and O. Vidal.  Un nuevo santo, el Padre Kino: un mensaje persnal para el Papa Francisco/A new saint, Padre Kino: A personal message for Pope Francis.  El Universal, Opinión, 18 July 2020 (Mexico City).  Brusca & Vidal 2020 Padre Kino OpEd English-Spanish.pdf


194.  *2020.  Brusca, R. C. (ed.).  The 1940 Ricketts-Steinbeck Sea of Cortez Expedition: An 80-Year Retrospective.  Journal of the Southwest 62(2): 215-514.  JSW Summer 2020 SMALL.pdf


195.  2020.  Brusca, R. C.  Publishing the Southwest.  Journal of the Southwest 62(2): 215-217.


196.  *2020.  Brusca, R. C.  The 1940 Steinbeck-Ricketts Sea of Cortez expedition, with annotated lists of species and collection sites.  Journal of the Southwest 62(2): 218-334.  Brusca 2020 Sea of Cortez Expedition, with JSW Frontmatter.pdf


197.  *2020.  Brusca, R. C. and T. L. Haskin.  The making of a marine biologist: Ed Ricketts.  Journal of the Southwest 62(2): 335-372.  Brusca-Haskin 2020 Ed Ricketts, with JSW Frontmatter.pdf


198.  2020.  Brusca, R. C. and O. Vidal.  Un nuevo santo, el Padre Kino: Un mensaje personal para el Papa FranciscoBoletín Eclesiástico. Órgano oficial de la Arquidiócesis de Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Jalisco, México) 7 September 2020, 14 (9): 14-17.  Brusca & Vidal 2020 Mensaje para Papa Francisco.pdf


199.  2020.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  Los desafíos ambientales de López Obrador y Biden.  El Universal, Opinión, 7 April 2020 (Mexico City).  English version: Environmentalists see blue skies ahead under new US administration (Mexico News Daily, 9 Nov. 2020)  ENGLISH: Vidal & Brusca 2020 OpEd, Election-Blue Skies ENGLISH.pdf.   SPANISH: Vidal & Brusca 2020 OpEd, Election.pdf


200.  2020.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  Ciencia Asediada/Science Under Siege.  El Universal, Opinión, 24 October 2020 (Mexico City).  Vidal & Brusca 2020 Science Under Seige (with translation).pdf


201.  *2020.  Mitchell, D. R., J. Mabry, N. Martínez Tagüeña, G. Huckleberry, R. C. Brusca and M. S. Shackley.  Prehistoric adaptation, identity, and interaction along the northern Gulf of California.  California Archaeology 12(2) 163-195.  Mitchell et al 2020 Upper Gulf archaeology.pdf


202.  2021.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  El Legado Siniestro de Donald Trump.  El Universal, Opinión, 20 January 2021 (Mexico City).  Vidal-Brusca 2021 Trump's Sinister Legacy.pdf


203.  2021.  Brusca, R. C. and O. Vidal.  Dispelling myths about undocumented immigrants.  Arizona Daily Star, 1 February 2021.  Brusca & Vidal 2021 Immigration OpEd.pdf


204.  2021.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  Todos somos migrantes. Todos venimos de algún lado.  El Universal, Opinión, 6 February 2021 (Mexico City) Vidal & Brusca 2021 Migrants, with English translation.pdf  English version published in Halting and Healing the Border Disorder, 14 Februry 2020


205.  *2021.  Osland, M. J., P. W. Stevens, M. M. Lamont, R. C. Brusca. K. M. Hart, J. H. Waddle, C. A. Langtimm, C. M. Williams, B. D. Keim, A. J. Terando, E. A. Reyier, K. E. Marshall, M. E. Loik, R. E. Boucek, A. B. Lewis and Jeff Seminoff.  Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures.  Global Change Biology 2021;00:1-26.  Osland et al 2020 Tropicalization, with Supplemental.pdf.   ALSO: see Commentary by L. Walters and Giovanna McClenachan, Global Change Biology Walters & McClenachan 2021 Comment on Tropicalization paper.pdf  and Popular Science review at https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/us-tropicalizing/


206.  2021.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  Vecinos Distantes/Distant Neighbors.  El Universal, Opinión, 7 May 2021 (Mexico City)  Vidal & Brusca 2021 Vecinos Distantes SPANISH.pdf.  English version published in Mexico News Daily  Vidal & Brusca 2021 Biden Vs Lopez-Obrador ENGLISH.pdf


207.  2021.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  Bienvenida, vicepresidenta Kamala Harris/Welcome to Mexico, Madam Vice President, Now Bear the Following in Mind.  El Universal, Opinión, 9 June 2021 (Mexico City)  Vidal & Brusca 2021 Harris-AMLO, El Universal ON LINE.pdf.  English version published in Mexico News Daily, 6 June 2021 Vidal & Brusca 2021 VP Harris & AMLO MexNewsDaily.pdf.


208.  2021.  Vidal, O. and R. C. Brusca.  ¿El regreso de los Tres Amigos?  El Universal, Opinión, 18 November 2021 (Mexico City) Vidal & Brusca 2021 Los Tres Amigos EL UNIVERSAL.pdf.  English version published as: Can AMLO, Biden and Trudeau get back to important trilateral business?  Mexico News Daily, Opinion, 18 November 2021 Vidal & Brusca 2021 Tres Amigos MEXICO NEWS DAILY.pdf.


209.  *2022.  Brusca, R. C.  A modern overview of crustacean biogeography. Review of G. C. B. Poore and M. Thiel (eds.), 2020, Evolution and Biogeography. Vol. 8 in, The Natural History of Crustacea.  Oxford University Press.  [Book Review] Journal of Physiological and Biochemical Ecology 95(2): 130-134.  Brusca 2022 Biogeography Book Review.pdf


210.  2022.  Brusca, R. C. and O. Vidal.  Here’s how Arizona’s plan to sate its thirst will harm the Gulf of Calfifornia.  Mexico News Daily, Opinión, 10 February 2022 (Mexico City) Brusca & Vidal 2022 Desalinatioin OpEd Mexico News Daily copy.pdf.  Also “Desalinating Sea of Cortez is the wrong path,” Arizona Daily Star, Opinion, 10 February 2022 Brusca & Vidal 2022 Desalinization Plan AZ Daily Star copy.pdf.  And, “Desalinizando al Mar de Cortés,” El Universal, 9 February 2022, Opinión Vidal & Brusca 2022 Ducey's Desalination SPANISH, online copy.pdf.


211.  *2022.  Brusca, R. C., G. Giribet, W. Moore.  Invertebrates, 4th ed.  Sinauer Associates/Oxford University Press.  (eBook and paper)  1080 pp.


210.  2012.  Brusca, R. C.  The Water Buffalo in the Room.  Editorial in Arizona Daily Star, 4 August 2022 (reprinted in Desert Corner Journal).  Online version: Brusca 2022 pdf  Print Version: Brusca 2022 pdf


213.  Flanagan, C. A. and R. C. Brusca.  2022.  Donald A. Thomson. Un recerto.  Geomare Zoologica 4(2): 57-66.  Flanagan & Brusca 2022 Don Thomson obituary.pdf


  1. 214. 2022.  Brusca, R. C. and I. Williams.  Howard Sanders. Pioneer Oceanographer (1921-2001).  National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 45 pp.  Sanders Bio.pdf


  1. 216. 2023.  Flanagan, C. A. and R. C. Brusca.  Donald A. Thomson (1932-2022), a remembrance.  Ichthyology & Herpetology 111(2): 343-347.  Flanagan & Brusca 2023 DAT Obit, Copeia.pdf


217.  Vidal, O., R. L. Brownell, Jr., J. Torre, R. C. Brusca.  2023.  Última llamada para salvar a la vaquita.  El Universal, editorial.  Vidal et al 2023 Última llamada para la vaquita, El Universal.pdf


  1. 218. *2023.  Brusca, R. C. and M. E. Hendrickx.  Update on the Gulf of California Marine Macroinvertebrates Database.  Geomare Zoologica 5(2): 57-62.


219.  *2024.  Brusca, R. C.  A personal reflection on changes in marine science education over the past sixty years.  ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024: 1-13.  Brusca 2024 Reflections.pdf


220.  *2024.  Brusca, R. C.  Coastal ecology of the northeastern Gulf of California and the Puerto Peñasco-Bahía Adair Region.  Pp. 26-38 in, Mitchell, D. R., J. B. Mabry, G. Huckleberry, N. Martínez-Tegüeña (eds.), Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto: Investigations of Prehistoric Shell Middens along the Northern Sonoran Coast.  Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, No. 83. Brusca 2024 Ecology of NE Gulf.PDF


  1. 221. *2024.  Mitchell, D. R., K. Rowell and R. C. Brusca.  Pp. 126-129 in, D. R. Mitchell, J. B. Mabry, G. Huckleberry, N. Martínez-Tegüeña (eds.), Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto: Investigations of Prehistoric Shell Middens along the Northern Sonoran Coast.  Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, No. 83.   Mitchell et al 2024 Sonora Midden resources.PDF


  1. 222. *2024.  *Mac Loughlin, C, T. Valdivia-Carrillo, F. Valenzuela-Quiñonez, H. Reyes-Bonilla, R. C. Brusca and A. Munguia-Vega.  eDNA metabarcoding warms up a hotspot of marine biodiversity: Revealing underrepresented taxa in visual surveys and historical records from the Gulf of California.  (With supplemental figures and tables)  Marine Biodiversity 54:22.  doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01415-x  Mac Loughlin et al 2024 eDNA sampling in Gulf.pdf


223.  2024.  Brusca, R. C.  UofA Failure of Leadership.  Editorial in Arizona Daily Star, 2 March 2024.  Brusca 2024 Op Ed on Univ Arizona.pdf


IN PRESS


*Vidal, O., R. L. Brownell, Jr., L. T. Findley, R. C. Brusca and J. Torre-Cosío.  Vaquita, Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland,1958.  Handbook of Marine Mammals, 2nd edition.  Scheduled for 2024 release.


IN PREP


*Brusca, R. C., W. Moore and G. Giribet.  Invertebrados, 4a edição.  Saraiva Academic Press, São Paulo.  [Portuguese Edition]


Here is some useful (or not), unpublished, periodically-updated information downloadable as PDFs:


ESSAYS ON THE SEA OF CORTEZ (drafts of material that will eventually become chapters in “A Natural History of the Sea of Cortez”):


  1. A bibliography on the Sea of Cortez  Gulf Bibliography.pdf

  2. A brief history of discovery in the Sea of Cortez  livepage.apple.comHistory of Discovery in Gulf.pdf

  3. A brief history of Sonora, Mexico  A Brief History of Sonora.pdf

  4. Names for the Sea of Cortez Names for Sea of Cortez.pdf

  5. Geology of Northwest Mexico  Geology of NW Mexico.pdf


INFORMATION ON THE SKY ISLAND REGION, THE SONORAN DESERT, AND MEXICO IN GENERAL:


  1. Key to conifers of Southern Arizona Key to So. AZ Conifers.pdf

  2. Key to oaks of Southern Arizona Key to So. AZ Oaks-2017.pdf

  3. Plant communities of the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve  Pinacate plant communities.pdf

  4. A map of Oaxaca City Oaxaca map.pdf

  5. 2009 Op Ed in Arizona Daily Star on buffelgrass (Julio Betancourt & Richard C. Brusca)  Betancourt & Brusca 2009 Op Ed in AZ Daily Star.pdf


WINE, ETC. (“Wine a little; it will make you feel better”):


  1. A brief introduction to Bordeaux wines  Bordeaux wines.pdf

  2. The Famous Paris Wine Tasting  Paris Tasting.pdf

  3. A list of some top under $25 wines  !Under $25 Great Wines SHORT LIST.pdf

  4. The Vesper Martini The Vesper Martini.pdf

  5.   RCB’s mussel/clam recipe  Brusca's Clam-Mussel Recipe.pdf

  6.   Brusca family caponata recipe  Brusca Family Caponata Recipe.pdf