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Ambrose, R.F., S.F. Lee and S.P. Bergquist. 2003.
Environmental monitoring and bioassessment of coastal watersheds in
Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. Report to the Los Angeles Regional
Water Quality Control Board. (With Addendum)
Anzalone, C.B., L.B. Kats, and M. Gordon, 1998, Effects of solar
uv-b on embryonic development in three species of lower latitude and
lower elevation amphibians. Conservation Biology, 12, 646-653
Blumstein, D.T., 2003. Fernández-Juricic, E., LeDee, O., Larsen, E.,
Rodriguez-Prieto, I., and C. Zugmeyer. In press. Avian risk
assessment: effects of perching height and detectability. Ethology
Blumstein, D.T. 2003. Flight initiation distance in birds is
dependent on intruder starting distance. Journal of Wildlife
Management 67:852-857.
Chari J, Wilson P. 2001. Factors limiting hybridization between
Penstemon spectabilis and Penstemon centranthifolius (Scrophulariaceae).
Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 1439-1448.
Cody, M.L., 2000, Bird diversity in oak and eucalyptus woodlands,
AUK
Davis, S.D., F.W. Ewers, *J. Wood, *J.J. Reeves. and *K.J. Kolb.
1999. Differential susceptibility to xylem cavitation among three
pairs of Ceanothus species in the Transverse Mountain Ranges of
Southern California. Ecoscience.
Dilley J, Wilson P, Mesler MR. 2000. The radiation of Calochortus:
Generalist flowers moving through a mosaic of potential pollinators.
Oikos 89: 209-222.
Fedriani, J.M., T.K. Fuller, R.M. Sauvajot, E.C. York, 2000,
Diets of three sympatric carnivores in the Santa Monica Mountains of
California: the importance of habitat, human presence and interspecific
competition. Oecologia 125, 258-270
Fedriani, J.M., T.K. Fuller, R.M. Sauvajot, 2001, Does
availability of anthropogenic food enhance densities of omnivorous
mammals? An example with coyotes in southern California., Ecography
24, 325-331
Gamradt, S.C. and L.B. Kats. 1996. Effect of introduced crayfish
and mosquitofish on California newts. Conservation Biology 10:
1155-1162.
Gamradt, S.C. and L.B. Kats, 1997, Impact of chaparral wildfire
induced sedimentation on oviposition of stream-breeding California newts
(Taricha torosa), Oecologia, 110, 546-549
Gamradt, S.C. and L.B. Kats. 1997. Aggression by non-native
crayfish deters breeding California newts. Conservation Biology 11:
793-796.
Guo, Q. and P.W. Rundel. 1997. Measuring dominance and diversity
in ecological communities: choosing the right variables. Journal of
Vegetation Science 8: 405-408.
Guo, Q. and P.W. Rundel. 1998. Self-thinning in early postfire
chaparral succession: mechanisms, implications, and a combined approach.
Ecology 79(2): 579-586.
Guo, Q, 2001, Early post-fire succession in California chaparral:
changes in diversity, density, cover and biomass. Ecological Research
16, 471-485
Keeley, J.E. 1996. Postfire vegetation recovery in the Santa
Monica Mountains under two alternative management programs. Bulletin
Southern California Academy of Sciences 95: 103-119
Keeley, J.E. , M.B. Baer-Keeley, and C.J. Fotheringham, editors.
2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in California.
U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA
Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham., 2001, Historic Fire Regime
in Southern California Shrublands. Conservation Biology Volume 6,
No.6,
1536-1548
Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. History and management
of crown-fire ecosystems: A summary and response. Conservation
Biology 15: 1561-1567
Keeley, J.E. 2002. Fire management of California shrubland
landscapes. Environmental Management 29:395-408.
Keeley, J. E., M. S. Witter, and R. S. Taylor. 2003. Challenges
of managing fires along an urban-wildland interface --- lessons from the
Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, California. in Third International
Wildland Fire Conference. Sydney, Australia.
Kerby, J.L. and L.B. Kats, 1998, Modified interactions between
salamander life stages caused by wildfire induced sedimentation,
Ecology, 79, 740-745
Kohn, M., Eric C. York, Denise A. Kamradt, Gary Haught, Raymond M.
Sauvajot, Robert K. Wayne, 1999, Estimating population size by
genotyping faeces, Proc.R. Soc.Lond.B, 266, number 1420, April 1999
Langen, T.A. and R.M. Gibson. 1998. Sampling and information
acquisition by western scrub-jays, Aphelocoma californica. Animal Behaviour 55:
1245-1254.
Langen, T.A. 1999. How western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma
californica) select a nut: effects of the number of options,
variation in nut size, and social competition among foragers. Animal Cognition 2:223-233.
Liebert, A.E. (2003) Behavioral flexibility throughout the colony
cycle of the paper wasp, Polistes aurifer. PhD Thesis, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Liebert, A.E. (2004) Ground nesting in the paper wasp Polistes
aurifer (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux, 51(1):1-2.
Luce, Shelley. 2003. “Urbanization and Aquatic Ecosystem Health
in Malibu Creek, California: Impacts on Periphyton, Benthic
Macroinvertebrates, and Environmental Policy.” D.Env. dissertation,
UCLA.
Murry, M.A., A.S. Konopka, S.D. Pratt, and T.L Vandergon. 1997.
The use of PCR-based typing methods to assess the diversity of Frankia
nodule endophytes of the actinorhizal shrub Ceanothus. Physiologia
Plantarum 99: 714-721.
Pratt, S.D., A.S. Konopka, M.A. Murry, F.W. Ewers, and S.D. Davis.
1997. Influences of soil moisture on the nodulation of post-fire
seedlings of Ceanothus spp. growing in the Santa Monica Mountains of
Southern California. Physiologia Plantarum 99: 673-679.
Redtefeldt, R.A., and S.D. Davis. 1996. Physiological and
morphological evidence of niche segregation between two
co-occurring species of Adenostoma in California chaparral.
Ecoscience 3: 290-296.
Riano, D, E. Chuvieco, S. Ustin, R. Zomer, P. Dennison, D. Roberts,
J. Salas. 2002. Assessment of vegetation regeneration after fire
through multitemporal analysis of AVIRIS images in the Santa Monica
Mountains. Remote Sensing of Environmnt 79(2002) 60-71. Elsevier Science,
Inc.
Rundel, P.W., G. Montenegro, F. Jaksic, 1998, Landscape
Degradation and Biodiversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems,
Springer Verlag,
447 PP.
Rundel, P.W., 1999, Disturbance in mediterranean-climate
shrublands and woodlands L.Walker (ed.) Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground.
Elsevier,
Amsterdam, 271-285
Rundel, P.W. 1999. Wildland fire pp. 4-11, In: Southern
California Environmental Report Card 1999. UCLA Institute of the Environment,
Los Angeles.
Rundel, P.W. and J. A. King, 2001, Ecosystem processes and
dynamics in the
urban/wildland interface of Southern California. Journal of
Mediterranean Ecology 2 209-219.
Rundel, P.W. 2002. Preserving biodiversity. pp. 4-13, In:
Southern California Environmental Report Card 2002. UCLA Institute of the
Environment, Los Angeles.
Rundel, P.W. 2003. Invasive species as a global problem. pp.
5-11, In: Southern California Environmental Report Card 2003. UCLA Institute
of the Environment, Los Angeles.
Saidy, J. & Gray, D. A. Acoustic behavior of Hoplosphyrum
boreale (Scudder): a
common scaly cricket of Southern California. In press. Bulletin of
the Southern
California Academy of Sciences.
Sauvajot, R.M., E.C. York, T.K. Fuller, H.S. Kim, D.A. Kamradt, and
R.K. Wayne. 2000, Distribution and status of carnivores in the Santa
Monica Mountains, California:preliminary results from radio telemetry
and remote camera surveys.
J.E. Keeley, M.B. Baer-Keeley, and C.J.
Fotheringham, editors. 2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land
Development in California. U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, 113-124
Schoenberg, F.P., R. Peng, Z. Huang and P. Rundel. 2003.
Detection
of non-linearities in the dependence of burn area on fuel age and
climatic
variables. International Journal of Wildland Fire 12:
Wilson P, Castellanos MC, Wolfe A, Thomson JD. Shifts between
bee- and bird-pollination among penstemons. In N. Waser and J. Ollerton
(eds.) Specialization and generalization in plant-pollinator
interactions. University of Chicago Press.
Wilson P, Valenzuela M. 2002. Three naturally occurring Penstemon
hybrids. Western North American Naturalist 62: 25- 31.
Wilson P, Castellanos MC, Hogue JN, Thomson JD, Armbruster WS. 2004.
A multivariate search for pollination syndromes among penstemons.
Oikos 104: 345-361.
Zutta, B.R. and Gamon, J.A. . 2002 . Assessing vegetation
functional type and
biodiversity in Southern California using spectral reflectance.
Research Report to CEA CREST.
Zutta, B.R., and J. A. Gamon. 2002 Assessing Vegetation
Functional Type and
Biodiversity in Southern California Using Spectral Reflectance.
Remote
Sensing of Environment.