Author: J. E. KeeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Postfire Recovery of California Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: J. E. KeeleyPostfire Dynamics in Californian Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: Marlyce Ann MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artemisia
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Model of Post Fire Succession in Californian Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: George Patrick MalansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sagebrush
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Dynamics of Invasion and Native Species Recovery Following Fire in Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: Scott Charles GressardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781267904287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Coastal sage scrub (CSS) is an important vegetation type in Southern California, which is under threat from multiple environmental changes such as nitrogen deposition, invasion by exotic species, and accelerating fire regimes. While previous studies have found that CSS can recover pre-fire cover through a successional process, there is concern that high exotic annual grass abundance after fire could prevent native shrub recovery, creating an alternate stable state which requires an active management for restoration of native shrub cover. This study evaluated the performance of focal native and exotic species at early demographic stages (germination, first-year growth and survival) in one recently burned site, and then placed these short-term results in context by examining long-term vegetation dynamics across four CSS sites in San Diego County. Exotic species out-performed native species during all early demographic stages, especially following fire. In the long-term (20 years) cover by native CSS shrubs returned to pre-fire levels at three of the four sites monitored. These results indicate that invasion slows the rate of CSS successional recovery post-fire, and that native CSS vegetation can recover given a long-enough fire return interval. Accelerating fire frequencies, however, may be creating invaded "apparent stable states," because full native shrub recovery does not effectively occur between closely spaced fires.
The Effects of Fire Intensity, Aspect and Substrate on Post-fire Growth of California Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: W. E. WestmanPost-fire Dynamics of Northern Coastal Scrub, Monterey County, California
Author: Lawrence Dean FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd Edition
Author: Michael BarbourPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520249550
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
"This completely new edition of Terrestrial Vegetation of California clearly documents the extraordinary complexity and richness of the plant communities and of the state and the forces that shape them. This volume is a storehouse of information of value to anyone concerned with meeting the challenge of understanding, managing or conserving these unique plant communities under the growing threats of climate change, biological invasions and development."—Harold Mooney, Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University "The plants of California are under threat like never before. Traditional pressures of development and invasive species have been joined by a newly-recognized threat: human-caused climate change. It is essential that we thoroughly understand current plant community dynamics in order to have a hope of conserving them. This book represents an important, well-timed advance in knowledge of the vegetation of this diverse state and is an essential resource for professionals, students, and the general public alike."—Brent Mishler, Director of the University & Jepson Herbaria and Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Open-file Report
Author: 2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in California
Author: Jon E. KeeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire management
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Ecosystems of California
Author: Harold MooneyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520962176
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California’s ecological patterns and the history of the state’s various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state’s ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California’s environment and curious naturalists.