- 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
Epilogue
Epilogue
Future Directions
- Chapter:
- (p.319) Twenty Four Epilogue
- Source:
- California Grasslands
- Author(s):
Mark R. Stromberg
Carla M. D’antonio
Jeffrey D. Corbin
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This concluding chapter presents future directions for research on California grassland species and ecosystems. Future research areas that might be particularly dynamic are those with applications to managing grasslands for the multiple values we gain from them. These include impacts of global environmental change on grassland ecosystems, the importance of genetics and species invasions to structural and functional change, and the development of techniques to restore native biodiversity or ecosystem functioning.
Keywords: grassland species, grassland ecosystems, environmental change, genetics, species invasions, native biodiversity
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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
