Publications

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2007

Lobell, David B., Ortiz-Monasterio, I., and Walter P. Falcon. 2007. Yield uncertainty at the field scale evaluated with multi-year satellite data. Agricultural Systems 92: 76-90.

Lobell, David B., and J. Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio. 2007. Impacts of Day Versus Night Temperatures on Spring Wheat Yields: A Comparison of Empirical and CERES Model Predictions in Three Locations. Agronomy Journal 99: 469-477.

Ortiz-Monasterio, J.I. and W. Raun. 2007. Reduced nitrogen and improved farm income for irrigated spring wheat in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico, using sensor based nitrogen management. Journal of Agricultural Science 145: 215-222.

2006

Christensen, L., Riley, W.J., and I. Ortiz-Monasterio. 2006. Nitrogen Cycling in an Irrigated Wheat System in Sonora, Mexico: Measurements and Modeling. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems: 1-12.

Lobell, David B. and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio. 2006. Regional importance of crop yield constraints:Linking simulation models and geostatistics
to interpret spatial patterns. Ecological Modeling 196: 173-182.

Luers, Amy L., Naylor, Rosamond L., and Pamela A. Matson. 2006. A case study of land reform and coastal land transformation in southern Sonora, Mexico. Land Use Policy 23: 436-447.

Schoups, G., C. L. Addams, J. L. Minjares, and S. M. Gorelick. 2006. Reliable
conjunctive use rules for sustainable irrigated agriculture and reservoir spill
control. Water Resources Research 42: W12406.

Schoups, Gerrit, Addams, C. Lee, Minjares, Jose Luis, and Steven M. Gorelick. 2006. Sustainable conjunctive water management in irrigated agriculture: Model formulation and application to the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Water Resources Research 42: W10417.

2005

Addams, Lee. 2005. Evaluating Increased Groundwater Use in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Southwest Hydrology 4: 8-9.

Beman, J. Michael, Arrigo, Kevin R., and Pamela A. Matson. March 10, 2005. Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean. Nature 434: 211 - 214.

Glibert, P. M., J. A. Harrison, C. Heil and S. P. Seitzinger. 2005. Escalating worldwide use of urea: a global change contributing to coastal eutrophication. Biogeochemistry, 1-23.

Harrison, J. A., P. A. Matson and S. Fendorf. 2005. Effects of a diel oxygen cycle on nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas emission in a eutrophied, subtropical stream. Aquatic Sciences 67: 308-315.

Kitzes, Justin. 2005. The Environmental and Health Impacts of Wheat Agriculture in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Master's Thesis, Stanford University

Lobell, David B.. 2005. A Remote Sensing Approach to Understand Controls on Cropland Productivity. Dissertation, Stanford University.

Lobell, David B., J. Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Gregory P. Asner, Rosamond L. Naylor, and Walter P. Falcon. 2005. Combining Field Surveys, Remote Sensing, and Regression Trees to Understand Yield Variations in an Irrigated Wheat Landscape. Agronomy Journal 97: 241-249.

Lobell, D.B., J.I. Ortiz-Monasterio, G.P. Asner, R. Naylor, W. Falcon, and P. Matson, 2005. Analysis of Wheat Yield and Climatic Trends in Mexico. Field Crops Research, 94 (2-3): 250-256.

Luers, Amy L.. 2005. The surface of vulnerability: An analytical framework for examining environmental change. Global Environmental Change 15: 214-223.

Matson, P., A. Luers, K. Seto, R. Naylor, and I. Ortiz-Monasterio. 2005. People, Land Use and Environment in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Pages 238-264 in Population, Land Use, and Environment, B. Entwisle and P. Stern, eds. National Research Council, Washington, DC.

McCullough, Ellen. May 20, 2005. Coping with Drought: An Analysis of Crisis Responses in the Yaqui Valley. Masters Thesis, Stanford University.

Schoups, G., Addams, L. and S. Gorelick. December 20, 2005. Multi-objective calibration of a surface water-groundwater flow model in an irrigated agricultural region: Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 9: 549-568.

Waxman, Andrew. 2005. Under Pressure: Profitability of Conversion to Pressurized Irrigation in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Senior Honors Thesis, Stanford University.

2004

Addams, Lee. 2004. Water policy evaluation using a combined hydrological-economic-agronomic modeling framework: Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Dissertation, Stanford University.
          Chapter 1 (Introduction)
          Chapter 2 (Yaqui Valley -- Historical Water Allocation Policy)
          Chapter 3 (Surface Water Systems and Model)
          Chapter 4 (Groundwater System and Model)
          Chapter 5 (Agronomic Relationships: Crop and Crop Models)
          Chapter 6 (Module-level Management Model)
          Chapter 7 (Valley-wide Management Model)
          Chapter 8 (Conclusions)

Dean, Ashley M.. 2004. Drought enters ninth year in birthplace of the Green Revolution. Encina Columns, Spring edition, p.11. Stanford Institute for International Studies. Stanford University.

Lobell, David B., J. Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, and Gregory P. Asner. 2004. Relative importance of soil and climate variability for nitrogen management in irrigated wheat. Field Crops Research 87: 155-165.

Lobell, D.B., and G.P. Asner, 2004. Cropland Distributions from Temporal Unmixing of MODIS Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 93(3): 412-422.

Luers, Amy L. 2004. From Theory to Practice: Vulnerability Analysis in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Dissertation, Stanford University.

Minjares, Jose Luis. 2004. Yaqui River Reservoir System Operational Rules. Submitted to the Yaqui Valley Water Irrigation District No. 041.

Minjares, Jose Luis. 2004. Sustainable Operation of the Yaqui River Multiple Reservoir System. Doctoral dissertation, New Mexico State University, August 2004.

2003

Harrison, J.A. and P.A. Matson. 2003. Patterns and controls of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from waters draining a subtropical agricultural valley. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(3), 1080.

Harrison, John. 2003. "Nitrogen dynamics and greenhouse gas in Yaqui Valley surface drainage waters." Dissertation, Stanford University.

Lobell, David B., and Asner, Gregory P. June, 2003. Comparison of Earth Observing-1 ALI and Landsat ETM+ for Crop Identification and Yield Production in Mexico. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, No. 6: 1277-1282.

Lobell, David B., Asner, Gregory P., Ortiz-Monasterio, J. Ivan, and Tracy Benning. 2003. Remote sensing of regional crop production in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico:estimates and uncertainties . Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 94: 205-220.

Luers, Amy L., David B. Lobell, Leonard S. Sklar, C. Lee Addams, Pamela A. Matson. A method for quantifiying vulnerability, applied to the agricultural system of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Global Environmental Change, 13: 255-267.

Puente-Gonzalez, A. February, 2003. Economic and Trade Environment Impact on Agriculture. A Regional Assessment for 1991/2000.

Puente-Gonzalez, A. September, 2003. Towards a Sustainable Use of Water in Agriculture: Assessment of an Investment Project for Irrigation District 005 Delicias/Chihuahua. Prepared for World Wildlife Fund, Mexico/Chihuahuan Desert Program.

Sullivan, Leah. 2003. . "A Woman's Domain? Gender and Resource Management -A case study on fisheries in Sonora, Mexico". Senior Honors Thesis, Stanford University.

Turner II, B.L., Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, and Andrew Schiller. July 8, 2003. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. PNAS, Vol. 100, No.14: 8074-8079.

Turner II, B.L., Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Svein Mathiesen, Rosamond Naylor, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller, Henrik Selin, and Nicholas Tyler. Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: Three case studies. PNAS, Vol. 100, No. 14: 8080-8085.

2002

Lewis, Jessa. July, 2002. Agrarian Change and Privitization of Ejido Land in Northern Mexico. Draft in Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 2, Num. 3, 402-420.

Lobell, David B., Ortiz-Monasterio, J. Ivan, Addams, C. Lee, and Gregory P. Asner. 2002. Soil, climate and management impacts on regional wheat productivity in Mexico from remote sensing. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 114: 31-43.

Manning, Richard. Spring, 2002. Agriculture versus Biodiversity: Will market solutions suffice?. Conservation in Practice, Volume 3, Number, 2.

Ortiz-Monasterio, J.I. 2002. Nitrogen management in irrigated spring wheat. In B. Curtis, S. Rajaram and H. Gomez Macpherson (eds.) p.433-452. Bread Wheat Improvement and Production. FAO Plant Production and Protection Series No. 30, Rome, Italy. No. pp. 554.

Ortiz-Monasterio, J.I., A.H. Hede, W.H. Pfeiffer and M. van Ginkel. 2002. Saline/Sodic sub-soil on Triticale, Durum Wheat and Bread Wheat Yield Under Irrigated Conditions. Proceedings of the 5th International Triticale Symposium, Supplement, June 30-July 5, Radzikow, Poland. p. 39-43.

Ortiz-Monasterio, J.I., R.J. Peña, W.H. Pfeiffer and A.H. Hede. 2002. Phosphorus Use Efficiency in Triticale and Durum wheat yield and quality under irrigated conditions. Proceedings of the 5th International Triticale Symposium, Supplement, June 30-July 5, Radzikow, Poland. p. 53-58.

Puente-Gonzalez, A. September, 2002. Water Economics in the Conchos River, Chihuahua, Irrigation Districts, 1990-2001. Prepared for World Wildlife Fund, Mexico/Chihuahuan Desert Program.

2001

Naylor, R.L., Falcon, W.P., and A. Puente-Gonzalez. 2001. Policy reforms and Mexican agriculture: Views from the Yaqui Valley, CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) Economics Program Paper No. 01-01. Mexico, D.F.:CIMMYT.

Puente-Gonzalez, A. September, 2001. La Agricultura de Mexico Antes y Despues de las Reformas Económicas de los Noventas: Un Análisis Nacional y Regional en el Distrito de Riego "Rio Yaqui". Mexico, D.F.

Riley, W.J., I. Ortiz-Monasterio, and P.A. Matson. 2001. Nitrogen leaching and soil nitrate, nitrite, and ammonium levels under irrigated wheat in Northern Mexico. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 61: 223-236.

2000

Falcon, Walter and Rosamond Naylor. 2000. Reconversion of the Yaqui Valley. Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Ortiz-Monasterio, I., and R. Naylor. 2000. Effect of rate, timing and placement of nitrogen on spring wheat in farmers field in the Yaqui Valley of Mexico. In "Optimizing nitrogen fertilizer application to irrigated wheat. Results of a coordinated research project organized by the Joint FAO/IAEA division of nuclear techniques in Food and Agriculture 1994-1998". International Atomic Energy Agency. IAEA-TECDOC-1164, Vienna, Austria. p. 231-238.

Panek, J. , P.A. Matson, I. Ortiz-Monasterio, and P. Brooks. 2000. Distinguishing nitrification and denitrification sources of N2O in a Mexican wheat system using 15N as a tracer. Ecological Applications, 10(2): 506-514

Riley, W.J. and P.A. Matson. 2000. NLOSS: A mechanistic model of denitrified N2O and N2 evolution from soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, Soil Science 165(3): 237-249.

1999

Bostick, Katherine M. 1999. Regulating the Growth of the Shrimp Aquaculture Industry in Southern Sonora, Mexico. Senior Honors Thesis, Stanford University.

1998

1997

Avalos Sartorio, B.. 1997. Modeling nitrogen fertilization practices of wheat farmers in Mexico's Yaqui Valley. PhD dissertation, Stanford University.

Harris, Jennifer. 1997. "Conservation Tillage: A Viable Solution for Sustainable Agriculture in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico." Senior Honors Thesis, Stanford University.

Harris, Jennifer. 1997. "Minimia Labranza. Maximos Ingresos. Le Interesa?" (extension bulletin now available from CIANO and CIMMYT).

Matson, P.A., W.J. Parton, A.G. Power and M. Swift. 1997. Agricultural intensification and ecosystem properties. Science, 277:504-509.

Ortiz-Monasterio, I., K.D. Sayre, J. Peña. 1997. Alternativas para incrementar la eficiencia de uso de nitrógeno en trigo en el Valle del Yaqui. Primer Simposio Internacional de Trigo. Cd. Obregón, Sonora, México. p. 213-221.

1996

Ortiz-Monasterio, J.I., Matson, P.A., Panek, J., and R.L. Naylor. 1996. Nitrogen fertilizer management consequences of N2O and NO emissions in Mexican irrigated wheat. Transactions of the 9th Nitrogen Workshop. Braunschweig, Germany. p. 531-534.

1995

Rice, Elizabeth. 1995. "Nitrate, Development, and Trade Liberalization: A Case Study of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico." Senior Honors Thesis. Stanford University.

In Press

Cruz, E. ,Monismith, S.G, Valle-Levinson, A., Delgado, J.A., and Beman, M. 2004.
Hydrographic observations in a coastal lagoon of semidesertic climate: Tóbari bay. In preparation for PECS (Physics of Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Seas) 2004 Symposium.

Ortiz-Monasterio, J. Ivan, and David B. Lobell. 2006. Remote sensing assessment of regional yield losses due to sub-optimal planting dates and fallow period weed management. Field Crops Research: in press.

Working Papers

Puente-González, Arturo. 2003. Economic and Trade Environmental Impact on Agriculture. A Regional Assessment for 1991/2000.

Lewis, Jessa. 1999. Ejidos and Agrarian Law Reform in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora. Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University.

Puente-Gonzales. 1999. Mexico's agriculture in a changing economic environment: A case study of the Yaqui Valley. Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University.

Harris, Jennifer. 1997. "The Profitability of Conservation-Tillage Practices in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico." Typescript. Spanish version: "La rentabilidad de las Practicas de Labranza de Conservacion en el Valle del Yaqui, Mexico," both papers combined as an Environmental Forum Working Paper, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Puente-Gonzalez, Arturo. 1997. "Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage in Mexico's Yaqui Valley Farming Systems for 1985, 1991, and 1996: A Policy Analysis Matrix Approach", Environmental Forum Working Paper, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Proposals

Matson, P.A., Asner, G., Falcon, W., Gorelick, S., Monismith, S., Naylor, R., Ortiz-Monasterio, I., Minjares, J., and E. Cruz-Colin. 2002. Integrated Studies of Sustainability: Land-Water Systems of the Yaqui Basin. Funded by the Packard Foundation.

Naylor, R.A., Valdes, C., Chavarria, E., and A. Luers. 2000. Coastal Resource Management and Conflict in Sonora, Mexico. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Falcon, W., and R.L. Naylor. 1998. Equity, Efficiency, and Environment in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Funded by the Ford Foundation.

Matson, P.A., Benning, T. L., Naylor, R.L., Ortiz-Monasterio, I., and P. Vitousek. 1997. Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Sonora, Mexico: Trajectories of Agricultural Intensification and Consequences for Non-Agricultural Ecosystems. Funded by NASA's Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Research Program.

Additional Resources

Publications and reports in CESP's Yaqui library:

Evaluacion de la calidad del aqua residual urbana, industrial y agricola desde su origin hasta su descarga en aquas costeras del valle del Yaqui, Sonora. Instituto Technologico de Sonora, Comision National del Aqua, Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Aqua, Cd. Obregon, Sonora. 1993.

Evaluacion y Requerimientos de Manejo de los Humedales Costeros del Sur de Sonora: Recursos Naturales, Actividades Humana y Educacion Ambiental.
Unidad de Informacion Biogeografica. Centro de Conservacion y Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Naturales. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey-Campus Guaymas. 1994.

Arreola Lizarraga, Jose Alfredo. 1995. Diagnosis Ecologica de Bahia De Lobos, Sonora, Mexico. Masters thesis, Instituto Politecnico Nacional - Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas.

Arreola Lizarraga, Jose Alfredo. 1997. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste, S.C., Unidad Guaymas Subproyecto IAC-3. Informe Anual 1996. M.en C. (Estero San Jose).

Bravo Pena, Luiz Carlos. 1998. Disminucion antropogencia de la capacidad de limpieza en un ecosistema costero: El caso de Bahia del Tobari, Sonora. Masters thesis, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California.

Chavez Lopez, Geol. Saul. 1998. Batimetria y Aspectos de la Hidrodinamica de la Laguna de Guasimas (Mareas, Corrientes y Oleaje). Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste, S.C.(Bathymetry of Guasimas).

Taylor, J. Edward. The Microeconomics of Globalization: Evidence from China and Mexico.

Maps

Estudio Hidrologico del Estado de Sonora. INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica). 1993.

Programa Estrategico de Manejo de los Humedales Costeros del Sur de Sonora. Unidad de Informacion Biogeografica. Centro de Conservacion para el Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Naturales. ITESM, Campus Guaymas. (Strategic Coastal Management Plan (ITESM) - for Yaqui wetlands). 1997.

Data from Comision Nacional de Agua lab in Cd. Obregon for Yaqui drains. 1998.

Estudio Hidrologico del Estado de Sonora (INEGI) (maps, diccionario de datos).

For other related literature:

Lee Addams' website: http://geo.stanford.edu/~addams/yaqui/Yaqui_References.html

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