Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015.
This presentation discusses the educational campaign to share the "5 truths of chaparral" through awareness, curiosity, and shared learning.
Presenter: Rick Halsey
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015.
The benefits and drawbacks of recreation in chaparral ecosystems are evaluated in this presentation. Social and environmental considerations are discussed and recreation-use survey results on the National and Angeles National Forests are presented.
Presenter: Pat Winter
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015.
This presentation explains the basics of carbon sequestration in drylands and Mediterranean ecosystems in addition to a basic overview of the carbon cycle. A major question discussed is "what influences rates of emission and organization of soil carbon?"
Presenter: Darrell Jenerette
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. This presentation covers a wide range of potential impacts and considerations for erosion in chaparral ecosystems. Topics include hill and stream erosion processes, post-fire erosion and impacts to ecosystem services caused by erosion.
Presenter: Pete Wohlgemuth
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. Watersheds in chaparral regions have many potential impacts from events like fire, climate, human-use, and invasive species. These impacts are explained in detail in this presentation and opportunities to address them are presented.
Presenter: Chris Solek
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. This presentation discusses the basics of flood control and sedimentation with an emphasis on how fire influences these processes. Images and examples of projects are included to showcase the possible actions and impacts.
Presenter: Keith Lilley
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. Shurblands like chaparral support (either directly or indirectly) numerous animal species. This presentation discusses the diversity of shurbland ecosystems, challenges to biodiversity, and has numerous photographic examples of animal diversity.
Presenter: Megan Jennings
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. Chaparral is a highly diverse ecosystem in many ways. In this presentation, the evolutionary, physiological, and ecological differences are explained.
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. By examining chaparral characteristics and known life cycle traits, the impacts of a possible mega-drought are discussed.
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Presented at the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium, 2015. This presentation discusses the direct and indirect drivers that are threatening chaparral landscapes in Southern California.
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This visual presentation goes through the historical relationships between Euroamericans and chaparral to provide background for our current relationship with this ecosystem.
Presenter: Char Miller, presented at the 2nd annual southern Chaparral Symposium 2015.
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This presentation discusses the impact of Native Americans on chaparral ecosystems.
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Hugh Safford presents the introduction to the 2nd Annual Southern Chaparral Symposium.
Read MoreThis study investigated the effect of burn season on direct and indirect tree mortality in mechanically thinned ponderosa and Jeffrey pine stands in California’s Tahoe National Forest.
Read MoreCompared to historic (1911) stands, current southern Sierra Nevada forests have a greater density of small to medium trees, lower density of large trees (>36 inches dbh), and greater density of white fir in mixed conifer.
Read MoreA 2015 study indicates that the reintroduction of fire in frequent fire forests of the Sierra Nevada creates a heterogeneous forest landscape and promotes diverse small mammal assemblages.
Read MoreThis study examined how housing location and arrangement affects the likelihood that a structure will be lost when a wildfire occurs.
Read MoreThis article argues that fire is more akin to trophic processes such as herbivory, and that there has been a reluctance by ecologists to incorporate the process of fire into general theories of community development and assembly.
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This journal article provides a decision framework that integrates fire regime components, plant growth form, and survival attributes to predict how plants will respond to fires and how fires can be prescribed to enhance the likelihood of obtaining desired plant responses.
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This study found that the predictive capability of the commonly used Burning Index was quite limited and proposed an index with improved predictive ability for Los Angeles County, California.
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The California Fire Science Consortium is divided into 4 geographic regions and 1 wildland-urban interface (WUI) team. Statewide coordination of this program is based at UC Berkeley.
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