Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shrub population dynamics in unburned California coastal sage scrub and adjacent grassland
Author: Shrub Population Dynamics in Unburned Californian Coastal Sage Scrub and Adjacent Grassland
Author: Seedling Establishment and Competition in Coastal Sage Scrub and Annual Grassland
Author: Gillian Polly SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artemisia californica
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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
Seedling Ecology and Evolution
Author: Mary Allessio LeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873053
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Seedlings are highly sensitive to their environment. After seeds, they typically suffer the highest mortality of any life history stage. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the seedling stage of the plant life cycle. It considers the importance of seedlings in plant communities; environmental factors with special impact on seedlings; the morphological and physiological diversity of seedlings including mycorrhizae; the relationship of the seedling with other life stages; seedling evolution; and seedlings in human altered ecosystems, including deserts, tropical rainforests, and habitat restoration projects. The diversity of seedlings is portrayed by including specialised groups like orchids, bromeliads, and parasitic and carnivorous plants. Discussions of physiology, morphology, evolution and ecology are brought together to focus on how and why seedlings are successful. This important text sets the stage for future research and is valuable to graduate students and researchers in plant ecology, botany, agriculture and conservation.
Postfire Dynamics in Californian Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: Marlyce Ann MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artemisia
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Anthropogenic Disturbance Regimes and Coastal Sage Scrub Recovery
Author: Kyra R. EngelbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9781124607245
Category : Sagebrush
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Abstract: Coastal sage scrub (CSS) is a unique and highly threatened vegetation community in coastal Southern California and northern Mexico, with 90 percent lost to development, agriculture, and invasive species. Understanding CSS recovery is critical to its survival. This study looks at the long-term effects of grazing and cultivation in southern California by tracking the extent of exotic grassland in two valleys in the Santa Monica Mountains over sixty years. The rates of native shrub return in a grazed valley were compared to those in a cultivated valley. Transects compared physical differences of stable and recovering grassland-shrubland boundaries. Native shrubs returned to the grass valley that was grazed nearly one and one-half times faster than the valley that was cultivated. Cultivation may result in a type conversion of CSS to a new steady state of exotic annual grassland. The field transects showed that stable and recovering boundaries had different physical characteristics.
Fire in California's Ecosystems
Author: Jan W. van WagtendonkPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520961919
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is an ideal authoritative reference tool and the foremost synthesis of knowledge on the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology, including overviews of historical fires, vegetation, climate, weather, fire as a physical and ecological process, and fire regimes, and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part Two explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part Three examines fire management in California during Native American and post-Euro-American settlement and also current issues related to fire policy such as fuel management, watershed management, air quality, invasive plant species, at-risk species, climate change, social dynamics, and the future of fire management. This edition includes critical scientific and management updates and four new chapters on fire weather, fire regimes, climate change, and social dynamics.
Bibliographies on Coastal Sage Scrub and Related Malacophyllous Shrublands of Other Mediterranean-type Climates
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaparral
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The following sets of bibliographies were compiled to facilitate all aspects of basic and applied research regarding coastal sage scrub vegetation in Alta and Baja California ... Categories were created that not only address various biological properties of coastal sage scrub but also incorporate relevant information from cognate disciplines. Additionally included are references that largely pertain to adjacent vegetation types (e.g., chaparral and grassland) but also contain significant information regarding sage scrub. We attempted to avoid duplication of entries in other categories"--Preface.
Author: