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General Technical Report

Title: Planning for biodiversity: bringing research and management together

Author: Kus, Barbara E.; Beyers, Jan L., tech. coords.

Date: 2005

Source: In: Kus, Barbara E., and Beyers, Jan L., technical coordinators. Planning for Biodiversity: Bringing Research and Management Together. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-195. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 274 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-195

Description: Southern California, recognized as a major center of biodiversity, contains some of the most diverse habitats of any landscape in North America. The ever-expanding human population of the region desires land, water, resources, and recreation, creating conflict with the habitat requirements of many rare species. Managing resources in a way that maximizes biodiversity in remaining habitats, while providing opportunities for other appropriate uses of the land, presents a formidable challenge, requiring coordination between scientists and resource managers. The papers in this proceedings volume reflect the breadth of issues facing the science and management communities in southern California, ranging from the threats of fire, air pollution, grazing, exotic species invasion, and habitat loss on native habitats and sensitive species, including birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, to the role of mycorrhizal fungi as indicators of biological change.

Key Words: air pollution impacts, biological diversity, California south coast ecoregion, fire management, habitat management, rare species

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Introduction and Keynote Address

Front Matter 1.3 MB

Invited Presentations

Assessing Estuarine Biota in Southern California 148 KB
Kevin D. Lafferty

Up, Down, or Stable: Populations of Endangered Birds in Beach and Estuarine Areas in Southern California 161 KB
Abby N. Powell

Considerations for the Management of Vernal Pool Faunal Communities 158 KB
Marie A. Simovich

Biodiversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Southern California 212 KB
Michael F. Allen, Louise Egerton-Warburton, Kathleen K. Treseder, Cara Cario, Amy Lindahl, Jennifer Lansing, José Ignacio Querejeta, Ola Karen, Sharon Harney, and Thomas Zink

A New Look at Coastal Sage Scrub; What 70-year-old VTM Plot Data Tell us about Southern California Shrublands 882 KB
Robert S. Taylor, Jr.

Air Pollution and Vegetation Change in Southern California Coastal Sage Scrub: A Comparison with Chaparral and Coniferous Forest 215 KB
Edith B. Allen, Abby G. Sirulnik, Louise Egerton-Warburton, Sheila N. Kee, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Pamela E. Padgett, Patrick J. Temple, Mark E. Fenn, Mark A. Poth, and Thomas Meixner

Fire as a Threat to Biodiversity in Fire-Type Shrublands 124 KB
Jon E. Keeley

Recovery Research for the Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse: An Overview of Collaborative Studies 384 KB
Wayne D. Spencer

Herbaceous Responses to Livestock Grazing in Californian Oak Woodlands: A Review for Habitat Improvement and Conservation Potential 540 KB
Barbara Allen-Diaz and Randall D. Jackson

Air Pollution Impacts in the Mixed Conifer Forests of Southern California 710 KB
Patrick J. Temple, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Mark E. Fenn, and Mark A. Poth

Sensitive Species of Snakes, Frogs, and Salamanders in Southern California Conifer Forest Areas: Status and Managementr 2.2 MB
Glenn R. Stewart, Mark R. Jennings, and Robert H. Goodman, Jr.

The Spotted Owl in Southern California: Ecology and Special Concerns for Maintaining a Forest-Dwelling Species in a Human-Dominated Desert Landscape 145 KB
William S. LaHaye and R. J. Gutiérrez

Bats in the South Coast Ecoregion: Status, Conservation Issues, and Research Needs 424 KB
Karen L. Miner and Drew C. Stokes

The Santa Margarita River Arundo donax Control Project: Development of Methods and Plant Community Response 178 KB
Dawn M. Lawson, Jesse A. Giessow, and Jason H. Giessow

Extended Poster Abstracts

Diptera Community Composition and Succession following Habitat Disturbance by Wildfire 53 KB
Michael A. Patten, Jutta C. Burger, Thomas R. Prentice, John T. Rotenberry, and Richard A. Redak

Patterns and Processes of Arthropod Community Succession after a Fire 295 KB
Jutta C. Burger, Michael A. Patten, John T. Rotenberry, and Richard A. Redak

Monitoring the Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance on the Ecology and Behavior of the San Diego Coast Horned Lizard, (Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillei) 49 KB
Tandora D. Grant and Allison C. Alberts

Fire Management in Some California Ecosystems: A Cautionary Note 52 KB
Hartmut S. Walter, Teresa Brennan, and Christian Albrecht

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Ephemeral Pool Crustacean Communities 107 KB
Janette Holtz, Marie A. Simovich, and Thomas Philippi

Habitat Ephemerality and Hatching Fractions of a Diapausing Anostracan (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) 22 KB
Marie A. Simovich, Thomas E. Philippi, Ellen T. Bauder, and Jacob A. Moorad

Bee Diversity Associated with Limnanthes Floral Patches in California Vernal Pool Habitats 25 KB
Joan M. Leong and Robbin W. Thorp

Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Habitat Alteration in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems in Southern California: Implications for Threatened and Endangered Species 45 KB
Mark Fenn, Mark Poth, and Thomas Meixner

Surveys for California Red-Legged Frog and Arroyo Toad on the Los Padres National Forest 46 KB
Valerie K. Hubbartt and Thomas G. Murphey

Citation

Kus, Barbara E.; Beyers, Jan L., tech. coords. 2005. Planning for biodiversity: bringing research and management together. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-195. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 274 p.