Proceedings of the seventh California oak symposium: managing oak woodlands in a dynamic world

Abstract

Beginning in 1979, there have been a series of symposia held every 5 to 7 years addressing the state of our knowledge about science, policy and management factors affecting California's oak resource. This program represents the seventh symposium in the series. California's oak woodlands cover 10 percent of the state, and in addition, are a key ecological component of conifer forests. Oak woodlands are the most biologically diverse broad habitat in the state, making conservation of their ecosystem values an important policy and management priority. The meeting location in the San Joaquin Valley was conveniently situated for both northern and southern California oak scientists, managers, policy makers and interest groups. These proceedings have 56 papers in a broad array of subject areas, including: wildlife and oaks; oak ecosystem services; oak restoration; oak conservation, management and utilization; and the gold-spotted oak borer and sudden oak death.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the seventh California oak symposium: managing oak woodlands in a dynamic world

• People and oaks
• How oaks respond to water limitation
• Acorns and acorn woodpeckers: ups and downs in a long-term relationship
• The paleohistory of California oaks
• Oak policy and management in California: Spanish origins and future considerations
• Coarse woody debris metrics in a California oak woodland
• Foraging behavior of European starlings: implications for mitigating their impact on native species
• Role of oaks in fisher habitat quality in the Sierra Nevada mountains at multiple spatial scales
• Bat activity at remnant oak trees in California Central Coast vineyards
• Oak tree selection by nesting turkey vultures (Cathartes aura)
• Restoring California black oak to support tribal values and wildlife
• Restoring indigenous prescribed fires to California oak woodlands
• The value of oak woodland habitats as control for medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
• Thinning interior live oak in California's Southern Sierra Nevada
• Using avian focal species to inform rangeland management in California oak woodland
• Growth and management of a remnant stand of Engelmann oak at Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
• Thinning – a tool for restoration of California's Southern Sierra Nevada blue oak woodlands
• Influence of fire on Engelmann oak survival – patterns following prescribed fires and wildfires
• Landowner total income from oak woodland working landscapes in Spain and California
• Effects of nitrogen deposition on multiple ecosystem services of the California oak savanna
• Developing ecological site and state-and-transition models for grazed riparian pastures at Tejon Ranch, California
• Soil organic carbon stability across a Mediterranean oak agroecosystem
• An accidental resource: the social ecological system framework applied to small wetlands in Sierran foothill oak woodlands
• Private and public incomes in dehesas and coniferous forests in Andalusia, Spain
• Ranching sustainability analysis
• Evaluating recreational hunting as an incentive for habitat conservation on private land in California
• Acorn production and utilization in the Republic of Korea
• Fourteen years of forage monitoring on the California Central Coast shows tremendous variation
• The goldspotted oak borer: revisiting the status of an invasive pest six years after its discovery
• Mapping spread of the goldspotted oak borer (Agrilus auroguttatus)
• Assessing the risks posed by goldspotted oak borer to California and beyond
• Population genetics and biological control of goldspotted oak borer, an invasive pest of California oaks
• Influence of the invasive goldspotted oak borer on fuel loading in southern California
• Effects of the goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus auroguttatus, on the health of coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, in southern California before and after treatment with two systemic insecticides
• Outreach and education efforts to counter the spread and impact of goldspotted oak borer
• Evaluating rapid response to a goldspotted oak borer diaspora
• Quercus kelloggii (Newb.) sprout response to fire severity in northern California
• Detecting the limits of northern and southern lineages of tanoak in northern California
• Long-term performance of minimum-input oak restoration plantings
• The effect of seed size variation in Quercus pacifica on seedling establishment and growth
• Establishing a range-wide provenance test in valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) at two California sites
• Quercus lobata seedlings and conspecific neighbors: Competitors or allies?
• Phenotypic variation in California populations of valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) sampled along elevational gradients
• Urban Sacramento oak reforestation: 17 years and 20,000 trees
• Economic incentives for oak woodland preservation and conservation
• Oak woodland conservation management planning in southern CA - lessons learned
• Oak woodland conservation as mitigation for roadway improvement
• Status, conservation, and management of oak woodlands at Tejon Ranch, CA
• Conifer encroachment in California oak woodlands
• Can the California forest practice rules adapt to address conifer encroachment?
• Lessons learned in historical mapping of conifer and oak in the North Coast
• Establishment patterns of Oregon white oak and California black oak woodlands in northwestern California
• Biomarkers identify coast live oaks that are resistant to the invasive pathogen Phytophthora ramorum
• Development of a management plan for coast live oak forests affected by sudden oak death in East Bay Regional Parks
• Phytophthora ramorum canker (Sudden Oak Death) disease risk and progress in coast live oak, 2000-2012
• Managing redwood ecosystems using Sudden Oak Death as a silvicultural tool

Citation

Standiford, Richard B.; Purcell, Kathryn L., tech. cords. 2015. Proceedings of the seventh California oak symposium: managing oak woodlands in a dynamic world. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-251. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 579 p.