Ecosystems of California / edited by Harold Mooney and Erika Zavaleta ; graphics edited by Melissa C. Chapin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mooney, Harold A., editor.

Zavaleta, Erika, 1972- editor.

Chapin, Melissa, artist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--California.

Ecology.

Ecosystem management--California.

Ecosystem management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1009 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California's remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type-its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California's ecological patterns and the history of the state's various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state's ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California's environment and curious naturalists.

Contents:

Ecosystems of California

Front matter

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS

TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

ONE. Introduction

PART ONE. DRIVERS

TWO. Climate

THREE. Fire as an Ecosystem Process

FOUR. Geomorphology and Soils

FIVE. Population and Land Use

SIX. Oceanography

SEVEN. Atmospheric Chemistry

PART TWO. HISTORY

EIGHT. Ecosystems Past: Vegetation Prehistory

NINE. Paleovertebrate Communities

TEN. Indigenous California

PART THREE. BIOTA

ELEVEN. Biodiversity

TWELVE. Vegetation

THIRTEEN. Biological Invasions

FOURTEEN. Climate Change Impacts

FIFTEEN. Introduction to Concepts of Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, Ecosystem Services, and Natural Capital

PART FOUR. ECOSYSTEMS

SIXTEEN. The Offshore Ecosystem

SEVENTEEN. Shallow Rocky Reefs and Kelp Forests

EIGHTEEN. Intertidal

NINETEEN. Estuaries: Life on the Edge

TWENTY. Sandy Beaches

TWENTY-ONE. Coastal Dunes

TWENTY-TWO. Coastal Sage Scrub

TWENTY-THREE. Grasslands

TWENTY-FOUR. Chaparral

TWENTY-FIVE. Oak Woodlands

TWENTY-SIX. Coast Redwood Forests

TWENTY-SEVEN. Montane Forests

TWENTY-EIGHT. Subalpine Forests

TWENTY-NINE. Alpine Ecosystems

THIRTY. Deserts

THIRTY-ONE. Wetlands

THIRTY-TWO. Lakes

THIRTY-THREE. Rivers

PART FIVE. MANAGED SYSTEMS

THIRTY-FOUR. Managed Island Ecosystems

THIRTY-FIVE. Marine Fisheries

THIRTY-SIX. Forestry

THIRTY-SEVEN. Range Ecosystems

THIRTY-EIGHT. Agriculture

THIRTY-NINE. Urban Ecosystems

PART SIX. POLICY AND STEWARDSHIP

FORTY. Land Use Regulation for Resource Conservation

FORTY-ONE. Stewardship, Conservation, and Restoration in the Context of Environmental Change

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520962170

0520962176

OCLC:

930602267