Shifting Baselines in a California Oak Savanna: Nineteenth Century Data to Inform Restoration Scenarios

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2011, Pages 88-101

  Whipple, Alison A ^a   Grossinger, Robin M ^a   Davis, Frank W ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearing tree data; Ecological baseline; GLO survey; Historical landscape reconstruction; Quercus lobata; Urban forestry

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN FORESTRY; WOODLAND;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA CLARA VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS LOBATA;

EID: 77956076215     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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