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Felger, Richard S., W. J. Nichols,& J. A. Seminoff. 2003. Sea turtle conservation, diversity and desperation in northwestern Mexico. In: J. E. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R. Felger, eds. Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in northern Mexico. Oxford University Press. New York.

Yetman, D. & R. S. Felger. 2002. Ethnoflora of the Guarijíos Pp. 174-230. In: D. Yetman. Guarijíos of the Sierra Madre: the hidden people of northwestern Mexico. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque.

Felger, R. S., M. B. Johnson, & M. F. Wilson. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press. New York. 391 pp.

M. F. Wilson, L. Leigh, and R. S. Felger. 2002. Invasive Exotic Plants in the Sonoran Desert. Pp. 81-90, In: B. Tellman, ed. Invasive Exotic Species in the Sonoran Region. University of Arizona Press. Tucson.

Nabhan, G. P., P. West, R. S. Felger, et al. 2002. Naturalized Exotic Species in the Sonoran Region, flora. Pp. 348-355, In: B. Tellman, ed. Invasive Exotic Species in the Sonoran Region.

Felger, R. S. 2002. Sinaloa Shootout. Pp. 2-14, In: T. Bowen, ed. Backcountry Pilot: flying adventures, Ike Russell. University of Arizona Press. Tucson.

B. Broyles, R. Felger, C. Bowden. 2001. The Sonoran Corridor. Pp. 245-265, In: Robles Gil, E. Ezcurra, E. Mellink, eds. The Gulf of California, a world apart. Agrupación Sierra Madre. Mexico City.

Felger, R. S. 2001. Coastal Wetlands. Pp. 159-181, In: Robles Gil, E. Ezcurra, E. Mellink, eds. The Gulf of California, a world apart. Agrupación Sierra Madre. Mexico City.

Felger, R.S., M.B. Johnson, & M.F. Wilson. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.

Felger, R.S. 2000. Flora of the Gran Desierto and Río Colorado of northwestern Mexico. University of Arizona Press. 673 pp.

Paredes Aguilar, R., T. R. Van Devender, and R. S. Felger. 2000. Cactáceas de Sonora, México: su diversidad, uso y conservación. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, Tucson.

Felger R.S. & D. Yetman. 2000. Roasting the Hechtia out of it: the use of Hechtia montana (Bromeliaceae) as a food plant in Sonora, México. Economic Botany 54:229-233.

Felger, R.S. 1999. The flora of Cañón del Nacapule: A desert-bounded tropical canyon near Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 35:1-42.

Felger, R. S. and E. Joyal. 1999. The Palms (Arecaceae) of Sonora, Mexico. Aliso 18: 1-18.

Búrquez, A., A. Martínez-Yrízar, R.S. Felger, and D. Yetman. 1999. Vegetation and habitat diversity at the southern edge of the Sonoran Desert. Pp. 36-67, In: R. H. Robichaux (ed). Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities. University of Arizona Press. Tucson.

Van Devender, T.R., R.S. Felger, & A. Búrquez M. 1998. Exotic plants in the Sonoran Desert Region, Arizona and Sonora. pp. 10-15. In: M. Kelley, E. Wagner, P. Warner, eds. Proceedings California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium-Vol. 3:1997.

Felger, R. S. 1998. Cupressaceae - Cypress Family, Pp. 191-192. In: P. S. Martin et al. Gentry's Río Mayo Plants. University of Arizona Press.

Felger, R. S. & M. A. Dimmitt. 1998. Bromeliaceae, Pp. 475-477. In: P. S. Martin et al. Gentry's Río Mayo Plants.

Felger, R. S. & M. A. Dimmitt. 1998. Orchidaceae, Pp. 492-498. In: P. S. Martin et al. Gentry's Río Mayo Plants.

Felger, R. S. & E. Joyal. 1998. Arecaceae, Pp. 474. In: P. S. Martin et al. Gentry's Río Mayo Plants.

Steinmann, V.W. & R.S. Felger. 1997. Croton yecorensis (Euphorbiaceae), A New Species from Northwestern Mexico. Novon 8: 207-209.

Steinmann, V.W. & R.S. Felger. 1997. The Euphorbiaceae of Sonora, Mexico. Aliso 16: 1-71.

Felger, R.S., G.P. Nabhan & R. Bye. 1997. The Apachian/Madrean Region of southwestern North America as a Center of Plant Diversity. pp. 172-180. In: S.D. Davis et al. (eds.). Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for their Conservation. Vol. III. The Americas. World Wide Fund for Nature and International Union for Conservation and Nature. IUCN Publications Unit. Cambridge, U.K.

Felger, R. S. & B. Broyles, eds. 1997. Dry Borders: Binatinonal Sonoran Desert Reserves. Journal of the Southwest 39:303-860.

Felger R. S., M. Wilson, B. Broyles, & G. P. Nabhan. 1997. The Binational Sonoran Desert Biosphere Network and its plant life. Dryborders. In: R. S. Felger & B. Broyles, eds., Dry Borders: Binatinonal Sonoran Desert Reserves. Journal of the Southwest 39:411-560.

Broyles, B., R. S. Felger, G. P. Nabhan, & L. Evans. 1997. Our grand desert: A gazetteer for northwestern Sonora, southwestern Arizona, and northeastern Baja California. Journal of the Southwest 39:703-855.

Felger, R. S. & J. Henrickson. 1997. Convergent adaptive morphology of a Sonoran Desert cactus (Peniocereus striatus) and an African spurge (Euphorbia cryptospinosa). Haseltonia 5:77-85.

Glenn, E. P., C. Lee, R. Felger, & S. Zengel. 1996. Effects of Water Management on the wetlands of the Colorado River delta, Mexico. Conservation Biology 10:1175-1186.

with S.L. Friedman et al. 1996. Noteworth collections: Sinaloa and Sonora. Madroño 43:532-538.

Steinmann, V.W. & R.S. Felger. 1995. New combinations for Euphorbia and Ditaxis (Euphorbiaceae) in northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States. Madroño 42:455-457.

Felger, R. S. and M. F. Wilson (eds.) 1995. Northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Its Apachian Outliers: A Neglected Center of Biodiversity. Pp. 36-59, In: L. DeBano et al. (eds.). Biodiversity and management of the madrean archipelago: the Sky Islands of Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-264. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest Range Experiment Station.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Johnson. 1995. Trees of the Northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Sky Islands of southwestern North America. pp.71-83. In: L. DeBano et al., eds. Biodiversity and management of the madrean archipelago: the Sky Islands of Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Fishbein, M., R.S. Felger, & F. Garza. 1995. Another Jewel in the Crown: A Report on the Flora of the Sierra De Los Ajos, Sonora, Mexico. 1995. pp. 126-134. Northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Its Apachian Outliers: A Neglected Center of Biodiversity. pp. 36-59. In: DeBano et al., eds. Biodiversity and management of the madrean archipelago: the Sky Islands of Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Felger, R.S. & A. Búrquez. 1995. New plant records for Sonora, Mexico. Madroño 42: 517-518.

Fishbein, M. & R.S. Felger. 1995. New plant records for Sonora, Mexico. Madroño 42: 409-410.

Zengel, S.A., V. Meretsky, E.P. Glenn, R.S. Felger, & D. Ortiz. 1994. Cienega de Santa Clara, a remnant wetland in the Rio Colorado delta (Mexico): vegetation distribution and the effects of water flow reduction. Ecological Engineering 4:19-36.

Felger, R.S, A. Harlan, V.W. Steinmann, F.W. Telewski. 1993. Cryptantha ganderi I.M. Johnston (Boraginaceae); new for Arizona. Madroño 40(4):268.

Felger, R.S. 1993. Mirabilis tenuiloba S. Watson (Nyctaginaceae); new for Arizona. Madroño 40(3):178.

Felger, R.S. 1992. Synopsis of the vascular plants of Northwestern Sonora, Mexico. Ecologica 2(2):11-44.

Felger, R.S. 1992. Reflections on a Desert Legume Trinity. Aridus 4(4):1-5, & 7.

Glenn, E.P., R.S. Felger, A. Búrquez, & D.S. Turner. 1992. Cienega de Santa Clara: Endangered Wetland in the Colorado River Delta, Sonora, Mexico. Natural Resources Journal 32(4):817-824.

Felger, R.S. 1992. Recursos bióticos del Desierto de Sonora. pp. 91-97. In: J.L. Moreno, ed. Ecología, Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente en Sonora. Secretaría de Infraestructura Urbana y Ecología & El Colegio de Sonora. Hermosillo.

Felger, R.S., P.L. Warren, L.S. Anderson, & G.P. Nabhan. 1992. Vascular Plants of a Desert Oasis: Flora and Ethnobotany of Quitobaquito, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, Number 8. 39 pp.

Pinkava, D.J., M.A. Baker, R.A. Johnson, N. Trushell, G.A. Ruffner, R.S. Felger & R.K. Van Devender. 1992. Additions, notes and chromosome numbers for the vascular flora of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 24 & 25:13-18.

Felger, R.S. 1991. Senecio pinacatensis (Asteraceae), a new species from the Pinacate Region of Sonora, Mexico. Phytologia 71(4):326-332.

Glenn, E. P., R. S. Felger, & J. A. Búrquez. 1991. Oasis en el Delta del Río Colorado, Ciénega de Santa Clara: Vestigios de un Oasis de Humedal. Noticias del CEDO (Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Oceanos, Mexico) 4(1):14-15, 19-29, 31-32. (Reprinted 1992, in Arizona Riparian Council Newsletter).

Van Devender, T.R., T.L. Burgess, R.S. Felger, & R.M. Turner. 1990. Holocene Vegetation of the Hornaday Mountains of Northwestern Sonora, Mexico. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 2:1-19.

Felger, R.S. 1990. Global Diversity of New Food Crops. Proceedings: 1st International Conference on promising crops for arid and semiarid lands. Asunción, Paraguay.

Felger, R.S. 1990. New Crop Potential among columnar cacti. Proceedings: 1st International Conference on promising crops for arid and semiarid lands. Asunción, Paraguay.

Felger, R.S. 1990. Non-native plants of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Cooperative National Park Resource Studies Unit, University of Arizona. Technical Report 31. Tucson. 93 pp.

Felger, R.S. 1990. Mesquite, a world food crop. Aridus 2(1):1-3.

Felger, R.S. 1990. The Seri Indians and their herpetafauna. Sonoran Herpetologist 3(5):41-44.

Felger, R.S. 1990. Los Indios Seri, Caguamas y el Desierto. Noticias del CEDO (Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Océanos) 3(1):21-24; Los Indios Seri, el Mar y el Desierto. 3(2):20-23.

Reeder, J. R. & R. S. Felger. 1989. The Aristida californica-glabrata complex (Gramineae). Madroño 36(3):187-197.

Felger, R.S., F.A. Molina & M.B. Moser. 1989. Cactus songs (Seri & Yaqui). The Plants Press 13(1):8.

Felger, R.S. 1988. Pilostyles, Strange desert parasite. The Plant Press 12(2):6-7.

Ezcurra, E., R.S. Felger, A. Russell & M. Equihua. 1988. Fresh water islands in a desert sand sea: the hydrology, flora, and phytogeography of the Gran Desierto oases of northwestern Mexico. Desert Plants 9(2):35-44, 55-63.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1987. Sea turtles in Seri Indian Culture. Environment Southwest. San Diego Museum of Natural History no. 519:18-21.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1985. People of the Desert and Sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. University of Arizona Press. Tucson. 480 pp. (reprinted 1990).

Felger, R.S. 1985. New arid land crops from Mexico: three examples for immediate development. pp. 13--24. In: J.L. Ochoa & J. Moreno-Lopez, eds. Uso y Preservación de los Recursos Biológicas Marinos y de Zonas Aridas. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas de Baja California Sur. La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Nabhan, G.P. & R.S. Felger. 1985. Wild Desert relatives of crops: their direct use as food. pp. 19-33. In: G. Wickens, ed. Economic Uses of Arid Land Plants. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

R.S. Felger & M.B. Moser. 1984. Use and knowledge of legumes (Mimosoideae) by the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico. Bulletin of the International Group for the Study of Mimosoideae 12:78-82.

Felger, R.S., M.B. Moser & E.W. Moser. 1983. The desert tortoise in Seri Indian culture. pp. 113-120. In: Desert Tortoise Council, proceedings of 1981 symposium. Desert Tortoise Council. Long Beach, California.

Cliffton, K., D.O. Cornejo & R.S. Felger. 1982. Sea turtles of the Pacific coast of Mexico. pp. 199-209. In: K. Bjorndal, ed. Biological conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D.C.

Cornejo, D.O., L.S. Leigh, R.S. Felger & C.F. Hutchinson. 1982. Utilization of mesquite in the Sonoran Desert: past and future. Pages 1-20. IN: H.W. Parker, ed. Mesquite utilization, proceedings of the symposium. Texas Tech University. Lubbock.

Felger, R.S. 1982. Quarterly Review of Biology 57(3):333-334. Review of: L. Benson & R.A. Darrow. Trees and Shrubs of the Southwestern Deserts. University of Arizona Press. Tucson. 1981.

Felger, R.S. & C. Mota-Urbana. 1982. Halophytes: new sources of nutrition. pp. 473-478. In: A. San Pietro, ed. Biosaline Research: a Look to the Future. Plenum Press. New York.

Yensen, N.P., M.R. Fontes, E.P. Glenn & R.S. Felger. 1981. New Salt Tolerant Crops for the Sonoran Desert. Desert Plants 3(3):111-117.

Felger, R.S. 1981. Future Harvests from seeds of the past. Sonorensis 3(3):6-7.

Felger, R.S. 1981. Taxon 30(2):533-534. Review of: I.L. Wiggins. Flora of Baja California. Stanford University Press Stanford. 1980.

Felger, R.S., L.S. Leigh, S.L. Buchmann, D.O. Cornejo, M.A. Dimmitt, D. Johnson Gordon, C. Nagel, L. Ratener & C.A. Stigers. 1981. Inventorying the World's Arid Lands for New Crops: a model from the Sonoran Desert. pp. 106-116. In: H.G. Lund, ed. Proceedings of Arid Lands Resource Inventories Workshop. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report W0-28.

Felger, R.S., M.B. Moser & E.W. Moser. 1980. Seagrasses in Seri Indian culture. pp. 260-276. In: R.C. Phillips & C.P. McRoy, eds. Handbook of seagrass biology, an ecosystem perspective. Garland STPM Press. New York.

Felger, R.S. 1980. Vegetation and flora of the Gran Desierto, Sonora, Mexico. Desert Plants 2(2):87-114.

Felger, R.S., D.O. Cornejo, L.S. Leigh & C.A. Stigers. 1980. Semillas Magicas del Desierto: un modelo de agricultura apropiada del Desierto Sonorense. pp. 70-80. IN: IV Simposio Sobre El Medio Ambiente del Golfo de California, Memoria. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales. Mexico City.

Felger, R.S. 1979. Ancient Crops for the 21st Century. pp. 5-20. IN: G. Ritchie, ed. New Agricultural Crops. AAAS Selected Symposium 38. Westview Press. Boulder, Colorado.

Felger, R.S. & R.C. Wilkinson. 1978. Feast of Life. Journal for the Protection of all Beings. Co-evolutionary Quarterly 19:83-90.

Felger, R.S. & G.P. Nabhan. 1978. Agroecosystem diversity: A model from the Sonoran Desert. pp. 128-149. In: N. L. Gonzalez, ed. Social and Technological Management in Dry Lands. AAAS Selected Symposium 10. Westview Press. Boulder, Colorado.

Nabhan, G.P. & R.S. Felger. 1978. Teparies in Southwestern North America. Economic Botany 32(1):2-19.

Felger, R.S. 1977. Mesquite in Indian Cultures of Southwestern North America. pp. 150-176. In:: B. B. Simpson, ed. Mesquite: its biology in two desert scrub ecosystems. Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Sheridan, T.E. & R.S. Felger. 1977. Indian Utilization of Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in Northwestern Mexico: the Spanish Colonial Record. The Kiva 43(2):89-92.

Interview with R. Menninger. 1977. New Crops. The Co-Evolutionary Quarterly. Fall 1977:76-79.

Nabhan, G.P. & R.S. Felger. 1977. Ancient Crops for Desert Gardens. Organic Gardening and Farming 24(2):34-42.

R.S. Felger & G.P. Nabhan. 1976. Deceptive Barrenness. Ceres 9(2):34-39. (FAO, Rome; also published in Spanish and French).

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1976. Seri Indian food plants: desert subsistence without agriculture. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 5(1):13-27.

R.S. Felger. 1976. Investigaciones ecologicas en Sonora y localidades adyacentes en Sinaloa - una perspectiva. pp. 21-62. In: B. Braniff & R. S. Felger, eds. Sonora, antropología del desierto.

Braniff, B. & R.S. Felger, eds. 1976. Sonora, antropología del Desierto. Colección Cientifia Diversa 27. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Mexico City. 592 pp.

Felger, R.S., K. Cliffton & P.J. Regal. 1976. Winter Dormancy in Sea Turtles: Independent Discovery and Exploitation in the Gulf of California by Two Local Cultures. Science 191:283-285.

Felger, R.S. & C.H. Lowe. 1976. The Island and Coastal Vegetation and Flora of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 285. 59 pp.

Felger, R.S. 1976. The Gulf of California: an ethno-ecological perspective. Natural Resources Journal 16(3):451-464.

Contributor with various authors. 1975. El Golfo de California, un recurso Mexicano de Importancia Internacional. Supervivencia 1(4):13-22.

Felger, R.S. & C.P. McRoy. 1975. Seagrasses as potential food plants. pp. 62-74. In: G.F. Somers, ed. Seedbearing halophytes as food plants. University of Delaware. Newark.

Felger, R.S. 1975. Nutritionally Significant New Crops for Arid Lands: A Model from the Sonoran Desert. pp. 373-403. In: J. Mayer & J. W. Dwyer, eds. Priorities in Child Nutrition in Developing Countries. UNICEF. New York.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1974. Columnar cacti in Seri Indian culture. The Kiva 39(3-4):257-275.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1974. Seri Indian pharmacopoeia. Economic Botany 28(4):414-436.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1973. Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in the Gulf of California: discovery of its nutritional value by the Seri Indians. Science 181:355-356.

Henrickson, J. & R.S. Felger. 1973. Microanalysis and identification of a basket fragment from Sonora, Mexico. The Kiva 38(3-4):173-177.

Bunnell, S. & R.S. Felger. 1972. The Sonoran Desert. Clear Creek 13:44-46.

Felger, R.S. 1972. Stockholm Superconference. Defenders of Wildlife 47(3):247-249.

Felger, R.S. 1972. Fog Desert. Pacific Discovery 25(3):14-18.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1971. Seri use of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana). The Kiva 37(3-4):53-60.

Felger, R.S. 1971. Magnolia in northwestern Mexico. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Sciences 6(4):251-253.

Felger, R.S. 1971. Lions, cows, and bullets. Defenders of Wildlife 46(1):37-38.

Felger, R.S. & C.H. Lowe. 1970. New Combinations for Plant Taxa in northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Sciences 6(1):82-84.

Felger, R.S. & M.B. Moser. 1970. Seri use of Agave (century plant). The Kiva 35(4):159-167.


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