- 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
Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
- Chapter:
- (p.169) Fourteen Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
- Source:
- California Grasslands
- Author(s):
Claudia M. Tyler
Dennis C. Odion
Ragan M. Callaway
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter discusses the dynamics between grasses and shrub vegetation, focusing on the factors that lead to transitions between grassland and shrublands and the stabilizing feedbacks and reproductive processes which maintain them. It then discusses the dynamics at the grassland–oak savanna interface. The chapter examines the constraints over the recruitment of oaks into grassland settings, and then describes the ways in which oaks modify understory vegetation and productivity once they are established into grasslands.
Keywords: grasses, shrub vegetation, grasslands, shrublands, oak savanna, oaks
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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
