Download or read book Soil vegetation Relationships in Californian Serpentine Chaparral and the Effects of Nutrient Additions on Nitrogen Mineralization written by Scott Neal Martens and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Angeles Cleveland Los Padres San Bernardino National Forests N F Revised Land Management Plans written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Valuing Chaparral written by Emma C. Underwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book California Serpentines written by Arthur R. Kruckeberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of botanical observations on the serpentine flora of California; Geology of serpentine and related ultramafic rocks; Serpentine soils and the mineral nutrition of plants; Physiological and morphological responses to serpentine; Serpentine vegetation in California; Serpentine flora in California; The evolutionary ecology of serpentine biota in California; Exploitation of serpentine and other ultramafics and effects of plant life; Land management and conservation on ultramafics.

Download or read book Studies of Soil plant Relationships in the Southern California Chaparral written by Jean Claire Beaton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conversion of Chaparral Areas to Grassland written by Jay Russell Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nitrogen Deposition and Its Effects on the Soils Vegetation and Fire Risk in Southern California Deserts written by Leela Ellen Rao and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Projected Climate Change Effects on Vegetation and Hydrology in California Chaparral and Sierran Conifer Ecosystems written by Carla Marie D'Antonio and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vegetation Responses to Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition and Nitrogen Fertilization in Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub of Southern California written by Sarah Cecilia Pasquini and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediterranean-type ecosystems of southern California are exposed to atmospheric nitrogen deposition with some areas receiving 20-45 kg N ha-1 annually. Although nitrogen is a limiting nutrient to plant growth, most nitrogen deposition in southern California occurs as dry deposition when plants are physiologically inactive due to seasonal drought. Due to this inactivity, it is unclear whether or not plants can utilize the additional nitrogen. The effects of nitrogen fertilization on aboveground plant production were tested in coastal sage scrub and chaparral ecosystems, and the effects of nitrogen deposition on post-fire recovery were observed in chaparral ecosystems. I found that experimentally added nitrogen did not result in increased production in either coastal sage scrub or chaparral sites. The vegetation did absorb added nitrogen but did not allocate aboveground production. Chaparral ecosystems did not respond to nitrogen deposition with increased rates of total or shrub biomass production post-fire but did show low density of large shrubs at high nitrogen deposition sites and high density of small shrubs at low nitrogen deposition sites. Since vegetation absorbs nitrogen but does not allocate it to increased production, it is important to discover the fate of the nitrogen because nitrogen deposition is projected to increase in southern California in future years. Key words: disturbance, Mediterranean-type ecosystems, semi-arid ecosystems, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Ceanothus, air pollution

Download or read book Introduction to California Chaparral written by Ronald D. Quinn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-09-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will introduce general readers to the plants and animals associated with chaparral and review for biologists and land managers its natural history, ecology, and management challenges.

Download or read book Ecological Guide to Southern California Chaparral Plant Series written by Hazel Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Broad Sclerophyll Vegetation of California written by William S. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Broad-Sclerophyll Vegetation of California: An Ecological Study of the Chaparral and Its Related Communities The characteristic vegetation of California west of the high Sierra Nevada and the Colorado and Mojave Deserts is of the type aptly described by the term "broad-sclerophyll." The use of the prefix "broad," which expresses a very general group character, in distinction to the needle-leaf of the "narrow-sclerophyll" conifers, is not without its disadvantages, since the most important chaparral species, Adenostoma fasciculatum, possesses a needle-like leaf. This single though important exception seems not to be sufficient cause for discarding the very expressive appellation. Broad-sclerophyll vegetation is not confined to California, but recurs upon other portions of the earth's surface, notably the shores of the Mediterranean. The leaf character is the conspicuous and diagnostic feature, that organ being thick, stiff, and hard, ordinarily flat, and evergreen. Schimper (80) has shown that this vegetation type is everywhere correlated with a definite type of climate, namely, one with a long, dry summer and a rainy winter. Some of the broad-sclerophylls are trees, but most are scrubs. We therefore find broad-sclerophyll forest and broad-sclerophyll scrub, the latter being the more widespread and important. The present work is an ecological study of the broad-sclerophylls of California; of their relations to climate and soil and to each other. Being somewhat of a pioneer work, many phases of the problem are touched, and many lines of investigation have been opened up which could not be followed to the end. The field is a fascinating one, and a lifetime would not suffice to exhaust its possibilities. In the Mediterranean region broad-sclerophyll scrub is known as "macchie" and "garigue"; in California it is called "chaparral." It has already been noted that the scrub is more important than the forest, both scientifically and economically. In fact, the present research began as an investigation of the chaparral alone. Because of the close relations between them, it was a simple matter to extend the field of study to include the trees. The term "chaparral" is of Spanish origin, being derived from the word "chaparra," meaning scrub oak. It seems to have been applied by the early explorers of California to the low, shrubby, dominantly evergreen vegetation which they found to be so characteristic of the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierras. Locally the term is sometimes restricted to a single species, often Ceanothus cuneatus. The term "chamisal" is frequently applied to a pure growth of Adenostoma fasciculatum or "chamise." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Relief of the Soil rock Interface and Its Effect on Plant Cover in Southern California Chaparral written by Charlene Dee Wright and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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