Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Channel Islands (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Fourth California Islands Symposium
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Channel Islands (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The California Islands
Author: 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.
Fifth California Islands Symposium
Author: 9th California Islands Symposium
Author: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Research in California's National Parks
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Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Abalone Tales
Author: Les W. FieldPublisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
DIVExamines the meaning of abalone among past and present California Indian tribes and how these interpretations of its meaning address larger issues of sovereignty and identity within the tribes./div
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.
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
Author: Southern California Academy of SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description