Planning for biodiversity: bringing research and management together; Proceedings of a Symposium for the South Coast Ecoregion

Abstract

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.

Titles contained within Planning for biodiversity: bringing research and management together; Proceedings of a Symposium for the South Coast Ecoregion

• Assessing estuarine biota in southern California
• Air pollution and vegetation change in southern California coastal sage scrub: a comparison with chaparral and coniferous forest
• Air pollution impacts in the mixed conifer forests of southern California
• Sensitive species of snakes, frogs, and salamanders in southern California conifer forest areas: status and management
• The spotted owl in southern California: ecology and special concerns for maintaining a forest-dwelling species in a human-dominated desert landscape
• Bats in the south coast ecoregion: status, conservation issues, and research needs
• The Santa Margarita River Arundo donax control project: development of methods and plant community response
• Diptera community composition and succession following habitat disturbance by wildfire
• Patterns and processes of arthropod community succession after a fire
• Monitoring the effects of natural and anthropogenic habitat disturbance on the ecology and behavior of the San Diego coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillei)
• Fire management in some California ecosystems: a cautionary note
• Spatial and temporal variation in ephemeral pool crustacean communities
• Habitat ephemerality and hatching fractions of a diapausing anostracan (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)
• Bee diversity associated with Limnanthes floral patches in California vernal pool habitats
• Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and habitat alteration in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in southern California: implications for threatened and endangered species
• Surveys for California red-legged frog and arroyo toad on the Los Padres National Forest

Citation

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