- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Two Systematics of California Grasses (Poaceae)
- Three Community Classification and Nomenclature
- Four Pleistocene and Pre-European Grassland Ecosystems
- Five Native American Uses and Management of California’s Grasslands
- Six Ecology of Invasive Non-native Species in California Grassland
- Seven Water Relations
- Eight Mechanisms Determining Patterns of Nutrient Dynamics
- Nine Soil Biology and Carbon Sequestration in Grasslands
- Ten Resource Limitation
- Eleven Genes on the Range
- Twelve Serpentine Grasslands
- Thirteen Competitive Interactions
- Fourteen Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
- Fifteen Ecology of Native Animals in California Grasslands
- Sixteen History and Ecology of Feral Pig Invasions in California Grasslands
- Seventeen Grazing Ecology of California Grasslands
- Eighteen Fire in California Grasslands
- Nineteen Responses to Changing Atmosphere and Climate
- Twenty Grazing Management on California’s Mediterranean Grasslands
- Twenty One California Grassland Restoration
- Twenty Two Exotic Plant Management in California Annual Grasslands
- Twenty Three Regulatory Protection and Conservation
- Twenty Four Epilogue
- References
- Index
Serpentine Grasslands
Serpentine Grasslands
- Chapter:
- (p.145) Twelve Serpentine Grasslands
- Source:
- California Grasslands
- Author(s):
Susan P. Harrison
Joshua H. Viers
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter provides an overview of California's serpentine grasslands, including their ecological peculiarities as well as the features that they may once have shared with other, now vanished, grassland ecosystems. It draws upon ecological studies that have been conducted in the serpentine grasslands at university field stations: the University of California's McLaughlin Reserve (Napa, Lake, and Yolo Counties) and Sedgwick Reserve (Santa Barbara County), Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (San Mateo County), and the Coyote Ridge study site (Santa Clara County).
Keywords: California, serpentine grasslands, grassland ecosystems, McLaughlin Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve, Jasper Ridge, Coyote Ridge
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Two Systematics of California Grasses (Poaceae)
- Three Community Classification and Nomenclature
- Four Pleistocene and Pre-European Grassland Ecosystems
- Five Native American Uses and Management of California’s Grasslands
- Six Ecology of Invasive Non-native Species in California Grassland
- Seven Water Relations
- Eight Mechanisms Determining Patterns of Nutrient Dynamics
- Nine Soil Biology and Carbon Sequestration in Grasslands
- Ten Resource Limitation
- Eleven Genes on the Range
- Twelve Serpentine Grasslands
- Thirteen Competitive Interactions
- Fourteen Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
- Fifteen Ecology of Native Animals in California Grasslands
- Sixteen History and Ecology of Feral Pig Invasions in California Grasslands
- Seventeen Grazing Ecology of California Grasslands
- Eighteen Fire in California Grasslands
- Nineteen Responses to Changing Atmosphere and Climate
- Twenty Grazing Management on California’s Mediterranean Grasslands
- Twenty One California Grassland Restoration
- Twenty Two Exotic Plant Management in California Annual Grasslands
- Twenty Three Regulatory Protection and Conservation
- Twenty Four Epilogue
- References
- Index
