Author: Spring Larine StrahmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Spatial Pattern and Invasion Before and After Fire in California Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: Spring Larine StrahmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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.
A Model of Post Fire Succession in Californian Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: George Patrick MalansonPublisher:
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Category : Sagebrush
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Ecosystems of California
Author: Harold MooneyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520278801
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits 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 CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs 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 CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Fire in California's Ecosystems
Author: Neil G. SugiharaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520246055
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Focusing on California and issues specific to fire ecology and management in the state's bioregions, this work provides scientific information for use in land restoration and other management decisions made in the field. It introduces the basics of fire ecology, and includes an overview of fire, vegetation and climate in California; and more.
Disturbance and Invasion in Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: Genie M. FlemingThe Effects of Fire Intensity, Aspect and Substrate on Post-fire Growth of California Coastal Sage Scrub
Author: W. E. WestmanOfficial Meeting Program
Author: Ecological Society of America. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Valuing Chaparral
Author: Emma C. UnderwoodPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319683039
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Chaparral shrubland ecosystems are an iconic feature of the California landscape, and a highly biodiverse yet highly flammable backdrop to some of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States. Chaparral-type ecosystems are a common element of all of the world’s Mediterranean-type climate regions – of which California is one – yet there is little public appreciation of the intrinsic value and the ecosystem services that these landscapes provide. Valuing Chaparral is a compendium of contributions from experts in chaparral ecology and management, with a focus on the human relationship with chaparral ecosystems. Chapters cover a wide variety of subjects, ranging from biodiversity to ecosystem services like water provision, erosion control, carbon sequestration and recreation; from the history of human interactions with chaparral to current education and conservation efforts; and from chaparral restoration and management to scenarios of the future under changing climate, land use, and human population. Valuing Chaparral will be of interest to resource managers, the research community, policy makers, and the public who live and work in the chaparral dominated landscapes of California and other Mediterranean-type climate regions.
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