Grassland structure and function

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Distribution and Regional Patterns of Californian Grasslands

   • Laura Foster Huenneke

   Pages 1-12

3. Characterization and Analysis of Abiotic Factors and Their Influences on Vegetation

   • R. A. Evans, J. A. Young

   Pages 13-28

4. Sources of the Naturalized Grasses and Herbs in California Grasslands

   • Herbert G. Baker

   Pages 29-38

5. Seed Production and Germination Dynamics in California Annual Grasslands

   • James A. Young, Raymond A. Evans

   Pages 39-45

6. Phenology of California Grasslands

   • N. R. Chiariello

   Pages 47-58

7. Competitive Interactions in California Annual Grasslands

   • Kevin J. Rice

   Pages 59-71

8. Local Temporal and Spatial Structure

   • James W. Bartolome

   Pages 73-80

9. Comparative Ecology of Annual Grasses: Native Versus Californian Habitats and Populations

   • L. E. Jackson, J. Roy

   Pages 81-91

10. The Importance of Species Differences in the Development of Mathematical Models of California Grasslands

    • T. C. Foin, G. A. J. Platenkamp

    Pages 93-103

11. The Effects of Ants on Grasslands

    • Andrew J. Beattie

    Pages 105-116

12. Insect Herbivory in the Transition to California Annual Grasslands: Did Grasshoppers Deliver the Coup de Grass?

    • Anthony Joern

    Pages 117-134

13. Impacts of Non-Domesticated Vertebrates on California Grasslands

    • W. Z. Lidicker Jr.

    Pages 135-150

14. Grazers, Past and Present

    • Frederic H. Wagner

    Pages 151-162

15. Simulated Water Budgets for an Annual Grassland Site in the Sierra Foothills

    • William J. Parton, Louise Jackson

    Pages 163-171

16. Management Controls on Productivity

    • J. W. Menke

    Pages 173-199

17. Conservation Biology of California’s Remnant Native Grasslands

    • Dennis D. Murphy, Paul R. Ehrlich

    Pages 201-211

18. The California Annual Grassland: An Overview

    • L. F. Huenneke, H. A. Mooney

    Pages 213-218

19. Back Matter

    Pages 219-221

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The chapters in this volume are based on a opportumtles for studying the links between symposium, "California grasslands: structure abiotic and biotic components. and productivity", supported by the National The contributions in this volume illustrate Science Foundation. The primary objective of the links between population-level processes this symposium was to integrate the current and system-level phenomena in a well-studied understanding of controls on ecosystem struc­ community. Unfortunately, some areas of cur­ ture and function with the approaches of popu­ rent research (e.g., nutrient cycling) are under­ lation biology. The annual grasslands are represented in this volume. For other topics eminently suitable for experimental and manip­ (particularly the role of invertebrate con­ sumers), the lack of data from the annual grass­ ulative studies of ecosystem processes. The short lives and small stature of the component land brought a broader grassland perspective. plant species make experimental work far more Together, however, the contributions illustrate practical than in forests or even in perennial­ the importance of different ecological ap­ dominated prairies. The system's small-scale proaches in studying the controls on structure patchiness, and the obvious importance of and function of a complex system. the region's mediterranean climate in the life cycle of the annual vegetation, afford many L.F. Huenneke and H.A. Mooney Huenneke, L.F. and Mooney, H. (eds) Grassland Structure and Function: California Annual Grassland.

• Biom
• Evolution
• Fauna
• Flora
• Seed
• Vegetation
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment

• Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Harold A. Mooney

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