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I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of
life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I
came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry
David Thoreau,
Walden
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Stunt Ranch Santa
Monica Mountains Reserve
University of California
Los Angeles
Annual Report
2001 - 2002
Yucca whipplei
Cover Illustration: Yucca whipplei
by Lisa Pompelli
Yucca whipplei
occurs widely in coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats from Monterey
County south into northwestern Baja California. The common name of our
lord’s candle comes from the presence in spring of a tall flowering stalk
4-8 feet in height covered with cream-colored flowers. This species has a
remarkable mutualism with an insect called the yucca moth. All pollination
of yucca flowers is carried out by this moth, which then lays its eggs in
the young seedpods. The developing moth larvae feed on some but not all of
the seeds in each of the pods. Neither species can survive without the
contributions of the other.
UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains
Reserve
University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: (310) 206-3887; Fax: (310) 825-9433
Email: cfelixso@ucla.edu; Web
Site:
http://nrs.ucop.edu/Reserves/stunt/html
Narrative
Overview 2001-2002
Academic
years, as do most yearly cycles, seem to have their own focus. In the life
of the Stunt Ranch Reserve, besides instruction and research, the
2001-2002 year focused on mediterranean-climate regions, the Los Angeles
Times reading by 9 literacy program, reconstruction planning, and outreach
to the public about the importance of preserving and enhancing
biodiversity.
An international symposium on Managing Conservation lands in
Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems was held April 2-4 at UCLA to discuss
issues and challenges of managing parklands at the urban/wildland
interface adjacent to the large metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Cape
Town. This workshop brought together a large group of resource managers
and conservation biologists from Southern California and South Africa to
learn from their respective experiences and to develop new approaches
toward effective resource management. Shortly afterward, a similar program
was conducted with resource managers from Chile.
For details, see On-site community outreach activities and
Miscellaneous.
A related project was the production of a visually attractive educational
poster which identifies the five mediterranean-climate regions, their
patterns of global occurrences, and their convergent as well as unique
characteristics. It also describes the threats these regions face as areas
of irreplaceable biodiversity whose protection is of critical global
importance.
For details, see Off-site community outreach activities.
As in past years, there was much behind the scenes activity related to the
reconstruction of the Stunt Ranch education/nature center. An Initial
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was completed and released. The Reserve
received public response with no significant problems, and is now working
out engineering details for the utilities for the site.
With enthusiastic support from numerous agencies and organizations, and
with valued assistance from the UCLA development office and offices of
government and community relations, the Reserve applied for Proposition 12
funding to help supplement the reconstruction of its education/nature
center. Although the Reserve did receive a high ranking, the available
funds were awarded to centers in more urban locales. However, no effort is
in vain, and the well documented proposal not only will serve as the basis
for others, it has provided a valuable vehicle for outreach to various
educational and environmental organizations and communities.
The Reserve was a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times Reading by
Nine Literacy Program. Articles published on the Los Angeles Times Kids
Page – California Classroom section, featured plants and animals found at
the reserve. Accompanying illustrations by children between the ages of
5-12 years of age were unique to these articles
For details, see Off-site community outreach activities and
Miscellaneous
ON-SITE RESERVE USE:
The Stunt Ranch
Reserve determines use on the basis of visitor days. During 2001-2002, the
reserve had 3238 users for a total of 3860 user days. These user numbers are
broken down by university-level use from UCLA, other UC campuses, the
California State University system, and others within/outside California. In
addition to university use, the Reserve hosted environmental education
programs for K-12 coordinated by the Cold Creek Docents, and varied public
outreach programs.
For details, see Use data and user’s affiliations
RESERVE INSTRUCTION:
The following
university-level courses and graduate programs used the Stunt Ranch
Reserve:
• Field Analysis Biogeography: Geography 163
• Astronomical Observation: Astro 8 A and B
• California Ecosystems: OBEE 154
• Global Environment: GE CLST M1A
• Biogeography of Southern California: Geography 495
• Behavioral Ecology: Biology 528
• Ph.D. Field Exam: Ground Truthing of Coastal Scrub Vegetation for
Satellite Remote Sensing Image Classification: Geography. Ph. D. Field
Exam: Environmental Controls on Oak Distribution at Stunt Ranch: Geography
For details, see Use data and user’s affiliation, and
Instruction.
RESERVE RESEARCH PROJECTS:
The following research
projects took place on, or in the surrounding vicinity, of the Stunt Ranch
Reserve
• Long term gas exchange and water relations study of a chaparral plant
community: drought effect
• Bush poppy demography and productivity
• Post-fire successional dynamics
• Ecophysiology of ferns in chaparral and oak woodland habitats of the Santa
Monica Mountains
• Influence of nutrient loading on the invasion of an alien plant species,
giant cane (Arundo donax) in Southern California riparian communities
• Environmental monitoring and bioassessment of Ventura and Los Angeles
County Watersheds
• The evolutionary-ecology of fear: comparative studies of disturbance in
birds. Do birds habituate to human disturbance?
• Reproductive flexibility in paper wasp Polistes aurifer
• Rainfall variation and persistence of native plant in exotic grassland
• The stability of frequency dependent dynamics in the side-blotched lizard
• Assessing vegetation functional type and biodiversity in Southern
California using spectral reflectance
• Difference in pollinators between Penstemon centranthifolius and
Penstemon spectabilis and their hybrids
For details, see Use data and user’s affiliations, and
Current research.
K-12 ACTIVITIES:
Educational programs
thrive at the Stunt Ranch Reserve – even with sky for roof and earth for
floor. This is the title for an article featuring the Reserve in the UC
Natural Reserve System (NRS) 2002 Winter Transect (quarterly newsletter).
This year, as in others, thousands of students from dozens of schools
throughout the greater Los Angeles area visited the reserve for programs run
by the Cold Creek Docents on chaparral ecology, early Chumash culture, and
geology. These programs represented a unique and highly successful
collaboration between UCLA and the docents. The reserve benefited from the
on-going excellence of the program and the commitment of the docents. The
docents received reserve help in putting curriculum guides online, help in
publicizing the programs, and by providing enrichment opportunities.
For details, see Use data and user’s affiliations, and
listing of K-12 visits.
ON-SITE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ACTIVIES:
Managing Conservation
Lands in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems: Southern California and The Cape
Region of South Africa.
The five mediterranean-climate regions of the world have been identified as
members of a small group of evolutionary hotspots, which contain
globally significant biodiversity and are highly threatened by human
activities. Southern California and the Cape Region of South Africa are
areas among these regions, which share remarkable similarities in many
aspects of their environments. An international symposium on Managing
Conservation lands in Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems was held April
2-4 at UCLA to discuss issues and challenges of managing parklands at the
urban/wildland interface adjacent to the large metropolitan areas of Los
Angeles and Cape Town. This workshop brought together a large group of
resource managers and conservation biologists from Southern California and
South Africa to learn from their respective experiences and to develop new
approaches toward effective resource management. Among the themes discussed
were priorities for parkland acquisition, institutional challenges to
resource management, fire management, invasive species control, and
strategies for education and public outreach. The success of this workshop
has led to plans a continuing series of formal and informal linkages between
parkland managers in all five mediterranean-climate regions. The Workshop
was sponsored by UCLA (Vice-Chancellor for Research, Stunt Ranch Reserve and
the UCLA Institute of the Environment) and by the National Park Service.
Several months later, resource managers from Chile, one of the five
mediterranean-climate regions, also met with UCLA Stunt Ranch Reserve staff
and researchers and with National Park Service and State Parks to discuss
similar issues as noted above.
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution annual gathering.
The Reserve once again hosted the UCLA Department of Organismic Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution’s annual family picnic with catered food, live
entertainment provided by students from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Department,
and hikes/kids games led by the Cold Creek Docents.
For details, see Use data and user’s affiliations.
OFF-SITE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ACTIVITES:
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The Reserve was again
represented in the UCLA in LA community outreach booth at the annual Los
Angeles Times - UCLA Festival of Books, attended by tens of thousands of
visitors. This event provided a fun and effective venue for publicizing the
K-12 environmental program at Stunt Ranch.
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The schematics for the
Stunt Ranch Education/Nature Center as well as sample artifacts continued on
display in the lobby of the UCLA Life Science Building.
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The Reserve again was a
participant in the annual UCLA Biology Department Research Symposium. The
Reserve displayed posters and printed material on research and instructional
programs.
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Reserve staff attended
the annual UC Natural Reserve System manager’s workshop held at the Kenneth
S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: READING BY 9 LITERACY PROGRAM:
The reserve was a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times Reading by
Nine Literacy Program. The Stunt Ranch Kids Page articles have proven to be
a successful and wide-ranging venue for the Reserve’s off-site education
efforts and the promotion of the on-site K-12 environmental education
programs. These articles were considered such a valued addition to the Kids
Reading Room Page that the Los Angeles Times requested the Reserve to write
a monthly column on recreating natures living works of art.
MEDITERRANEAN-CLIMATE REGIONS POSTER:
The mediterranean-climate regions poster, which the Reserve created in the
past year is comprised of maps of the five regions along with botanical
illustrations, charts, diagrams and watercolor paintings. Topics covered
include fire ecology, convergent evolution, biodiversity, climate
influences, human history, human impact, and seasonal patterns of
temperature and rainfall.
The poster was designed and written as an educational tool for students and
the community at large who have an interest in science and biodiversity,
especially as it translates into public policy. It can easily be
incorporated into school curricula and community workshops and seminars.
Dr. Philip Rundel, UCLA Professor of Biology and faculty director of the
UCLA Stunt Ranch Reserve, wrote the text for the poster. Artwork and design
was by Lisa Pompelli, a well-respected artist and botanical illustrator.
CENTER FOR EMBEDDED NETWORKED SENSING (CENS) AT UCLA:
Phil Rundel, Director of the Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve, is
a principal investigator within the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
at UCLA. CENS is a new NSF Science & Technology Center working to develop
technologically innovative sensing arrays with wide applications in
environmental biology and ecosystem studies. The initial efforts of CENS are
focused on the design of a habitat and organism sensing test bed at the UC
NRS James Reserve and at affiliated field sites, which will later involve
projects at Stunt Ranch. Some of the areas of development include:
1) Sensing Infrastructure
• Environmental sensors in different habitats.
• Multimedia sensors in natural habitats and artificial cavities (nest
boxes).
• Physiological sensors on trees and shrubs.
• Primary nodes for higher level data processing and communications on
towers.
• Mobile platform for high-resolution sensors and tele-robotic operation.
2) Monitoring ecosystem processes
• Imaging, ecophysiology, and environmental sensors
• Study vegetation response to climatic trends and diseases.
3) Species Monitoring
• Visual identification, tracking, and population measurement of birds and
other
vertebrates.
• Acoustical sensing of birds for identification, spatial position,
population estimation.
VIDEO:
Burrud Productions and Schlessinger Media Company, with the help of Dr. Ken
Nagy, UCLA herpetologist and Stunt Ranch instructor, produced a set of
videos for K-12 on amphibians and reptiles. These became available in the
‘01-’02 academic year. One is about amphibians for grades K-4, another on
amphibians for grades 5-8, and the third is about reptiles for grades 5-8.
Each video is about 20 minutes long, is informative, and hopefully will
interest youngsters to learn more about these ectothermic vertebrates. For
information about these educational videos, see
http://www.libraryvideo.com/company_info/about_lvc.asp
COLLECTION OF ETHEL STUNT ARTIFACTS:
The Reserve, as in past years, was the fortunate recipient of treasured
items from the life of Stunt Ranch matriarch Ethel Stunt. These will join
others as part of a featured display on the homestead period in the Stunt
Ranch Reserve education/nature center. Items received this year included: 1
fur hood, 1 pair of glasses, 1 tin cup, 1"1888" pin, 1 carved jade frog from
China, and diaries from some of her trips to Japan and Korea dated 1910-13.
In one, Ethel noted that locals were taking advantage of some of the
foreigners in various transactions "...but not Beatrice Ethel...” A measure
of her self-esteem and confidence, which seems to confirm she was a teacher.
NEWS CLIPPINGS:
In addition to research
papers published in Ecological Research, Environmental Management,
Conservation Biology, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Southern California
Environmental Report Card, Journal of Mediterranean Ecology, and
the International Journal of Wildland Fire, news and feature articles
about the Reserve or written by Reserve staff were published in the
publications listed below.
• Los Angeles Times: Articles on the Kids Reading Room Page. Topics included
the chaparral, firestorms, and rattlesnakes.
• UCLA Today: Red, White, and Blue in Post 9-11 America
• Agoura Acorn: Stunt Ranch Presents a Natural Wonderland in Our Own
Backyard
See Publications and Miscellaneous
For more information on the UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve,
visit
http://nrs.ucop.edu/Reserves/stunt.html or call 310 206-3887.
Your input is most welcome.
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2001-2002
University-level Instruction
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Course Title
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Institution |
Instructor’s Name |
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Geography 163 (Field
Analysis Biogeography) |
UCLA |
Hartmut
Walter |
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Astro 8 A
& B
Astronomy with Physics: Exploring the Universe |
UCLA
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Art
Huffman |
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OBEE 154
California Ecosystems |
UCLA
|
Phil
Rundel |
| GE
CLST M1A Global Environment |
UCLA
|
Keith D. Stolzenbach |
Ph.D. Field Exam (Sigrid Rian)
Geography
Ground Truthing of Coastal Scrub
Vegetation for Satellite Remote
Sensing Image Classification |
UCLA |
Glen
MacDonald |
Ph.D. Field Exam (Jon Campbell)
Geography
Environmental Controls on
Oak Distribution at Stunt Ranch |
UCLA
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Glen
MacDonald |
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Geography 495 Biogeography of Southern California |
CSDH
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Judith
A. King and Constance Vadheim |
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BIO 528
Behavioral Ecology |
CSUN
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David A. Gray
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2001-2002
Research at Stunt
(lists Principal Investigator Name, Affiliation, Research
Title,
Project Duration, and Funding Source)
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Research
User(s): |
Philip
W. Rundel and Rasoul Sharifi |
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User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
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Project
Title: |
Bush poppy
demography and productivity |
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Project
Duration: |
1993
- on-going |
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Research
User (s): |
Philip
W. Rundel |
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User
Affiliation(s): |
UCLA,
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Project
Title: |
Post-fire
successional dynamics |
| Project
Duration: |
1993
– on-going |
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Research
User(s): |
Rasoul Sharifi |
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User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
| Project
Title: |
Long term
gas exchange and water relations study of a chaparral plant community:
Drought effect |
| Project
Duration: |
1998 -
on-going |
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Research
User(s): |
Brian Zutta
and John Gamon |
| User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
| Project
Title: |
Assessing vegetation functional
type and biodiversity in Southern California using spectral
reflectance. |
| Project
Duration: |
1998 – 2003 |
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Funding Source: |
$1,069,961 (5 years) from NSF-CREST,
Part of a larger $5 million dollar grant to form CEA-CREST at Cal
State LA. (HRD-9805529) |
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Research
User(s): |
Aviva
Liebert (Advisor – Peter Nonacs) |
| User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
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Project
Title: |
Reproductive
flexibility in the paper wasp Polistes
aurifer |
| Project
Duration: |
1999-2002 |
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| Research User(s): |
Daniel T.
Blumstein and Rina Fernandez |
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User
Affiliaton: |
UCLA |
| Project
Title: |
The evolutionary ecology of fear:
comparative studies of disturbance in birds. Do birds habituate to
human disturbance? |
| Project
Duration: |
March 2001 – ongoing |
| Funding
Source: |
Lida Scott Brown |
| __________________________________________________________________ |
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Research
User (s): |
Richard F. Ambrose |
| User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
| Project
Title: |
Environmental
monitoring and bioassessment of Ventura and Los Angeles County
watersheds |
| Project
Duration: |
July 2001 –
February 2003 |
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Funding
Source: |
Los Angeles
Regional Water Quality Control Board |
| __________________________________________________________________ |
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Research
User(s): |
Philip W.
Rundel |
| User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
| Project
Title: |
Ecophysiology of ferns in chaparral and
oak woodland habitats of the Santa Monica Mountains |
| Project
Duration: |
2001 – on-going |
| __________________________________________________________________ |
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Research
User(s): |
Gretchen C.
Coffman |
| User
Affiliation: |
UCLA |
| Project
Title: |
Influence of nutrient loading on the
invasion of an alien plant species, giant cane (Arundo donax)
in Southern California riparian communities. |
| Project
Duration: |
2002 – 2003 |
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Funding
Source: |
California Water Resources Center |
| __________________________________________________________________ |
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Research
User(s): |
Ammon Corl
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| User
Affiliation: |
UC Santa
Cruz |
| Project
Title: |
The stability of frequency dependent
dynamics in the
side-blotched lizard. |
| Project
Duration: |
April, 2002-June 2002, and continuing
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Funding
Source: |
Mathias grant, 2002 |
| __________________________________________________________________ |
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Research
User(s): |
Paul
Wilson, Elizabeth Jordon |
| User
Affiliation: |
California State University, Northridge |
| Project
Title: |
The response of pollinators
to hybrid arrays of Penstemon
centranthifolius and Penstemon spectabilis |
| Project
Duration: |
Spring 2002 – on-going |
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Research
User(s): |
Dr.
Jonathan Levine, Heather Coleman |
| User
Affiliation: |
Affiliation: California State
University, Los Angeles |
| Project
Title: |
Rainfall variation and
persistence of native plant in exotic grassland |
| Project
Duration: |
November 2002 - June 2003 |
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Funding
Source: |
UCLA set up funds |
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2001-2002 Research Reports
# 1. Bush poppy demography and
productivity
Rasoul Sharifi and P.W. Rundel
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
Phil Rundel and Rasoul Sharifi are in the
eighth year of a study investigating post-fire patterns of demography and
productivity in Dendromecon rigida, the bush poppy, which became
established in dense stands on north-facing slopes of the Santa Monica
Mountains following wildfires in 1993.
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#2. Post fire successional
dynamics
P.W. Rundel
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
Phil Rundel is continuing a long-term
monitoring project of permanent plots established at Stunt Ranch after the
1993 wildfire.
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# 3. Long term
study of gas exchange and water relations of a chaparral plant community:
Drought effect
Rasoul Sharifi
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
During
2002 we focused our study on the ecophysiological responses of the study
species to the unusual drought conditions of 2001-02, one of the driest
years of the past half-century. Our study site, Stunt Ranch, in the Santa
Monica Mountains, is a mixed community of plant species with different adaptive
strategies, including shrubs with evergreen, sclerophyllous leaves, as well
as species with soft-leaved, drought-deciduous leaves. The study species
included woody evergreens (Quercus dumosa; Q. agrifolia;
Heteromeles arbutifolia; Ceanothus spinosus; Rhamnus ilicifolia
and Arctostaphylos glandulosa), woody deciduous shrubs (Fraxinus
velutina var. coriacea; Malacothamnus fasciculatus and Ribes
speciosum), and semi-woody deciduous shrubs (Salvia leucophylla;
S. spathacea; Venegasia carpesioides and Eriogonum crocatum).
To assess the effect of soil water stress on plants physiological
performance; we compared plant midday water potentials, midmorning
assimilation and leaf stomatal conductance, during late summer of 1998, a
year with normal precipitation with summer measurements in 2002. The
drought of 2002 caused a significant decrease in plant water potential
(higher water stress) compared with 1998 in all of the study species. Plant
water potentials of deep rooted species during 2002 were 7-10% lower than in
1998 and water potentials of medium and shallow rooted species were 20 – 55%
lower than in 1998. The effect of the 2002 drought on photosynthetic rates
ranged from a 35 to 45% reduction across all the study species. The
reduction in photosynthetic rates was more moderate in deep-rooted species
than in the medium and shallow rooted species. Leaf stomatal
conductance to water vapor and transpiration for all species followed a
trend similar to plant photosynthesis.
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#4. Assessing
vegetation functional type and biodiversity in Southern California using
spectral reflectance.
Brian Zutta and John
Gamon
Center for Environmental Analysis & Department of
Biology and Microbiology (CEA-CREST)
California State University, Los Angeles
The first component of
our study, as part of a thesis project, involved four 100m transects in the
Stunt Ranch (Cold Creek) watershed. Title: Functional type classification of
Southern California Vegetation using spectral reflectance. The results were
presented in a poster session of the 2000 ESA meeting in Snowbird, Utah. The
study was conducted from Dec. 1999 to Sept. 2000 and involved the use of
remote sensing (spectral reflectance), at the canopy level, to distinguish
between plant functional types such as annual, evergreen, winter, and
drought deciduous vegetation. The results indicated that classification at
this level was at least 85% successful in the spring season. This analysis
also indicated that spectral reflectance could be used to distinguish
between species, which led to a second research component. Title: Linking
biodiversity and spectral reflectance in Southern California vegetation.
This portion was conducted on 2 transects in Stunt Ranch, and 6 transects in
Cold Creek, in Spring 2001. A positive correlation was found between the
optical diversity (standard deviation) of spectral information and
biodiversity. The results were presented in an oral session of the 2001 ESA
meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, and in a poster session of the 2001 Annual
Meeting of the Southern California Academy of Sciences in Los Angeles,
California, which received the Ecology and Evolution Award.
________________________________________________________________________
# 5. Reproductive flexibility in the paper
wasp Polistes aurifer
Aviva Liebert (Advisor, Peter Nonacs)
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
There was very little
wasp activity at Stunt Ranch for the 2002 spring and summer season, most
likely because of the extremely low winter rainfall. From late March through
early April, I checked all of my nest boxes that had been popular nesting
sites in previous years, but did not find a single P. aurifer nest. I
therefore was not able to study the wasps for another intense field season,
and instead focused on analyzing data and transcribing videotapes of wasp
behavior collected from earlier field seasons.
________________________________________________________________________
6.The evolutionary-ecology of fear:
comparative studies of disturbance in birds.
Dan Blumstein & Rina Fernandez
Department of Organismic Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
Birds may either sensitize or habituate to
human disturbance and patterns of sensitization may explain why some
species are unable to coexist with recreational trail use. By walking
towards birds and measuring the distance at which they flee from an
approaching human, we have been studying the degree to which they
habituate or sensitize as a function of changes in pedestrian pressure. We
have found that many species of scrub birds seemingly sensitize. On-going
work seeks to determine why.
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# 7. Environmental
monitoring and bioassessment of Ventura and Los Angeles County Watersheds
Richard F. Ambrose
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
University of California, Los Angeles
During Fall 2001, we
sampled a number of sites throughout the Malibu Creek watershed (as well as
Calluegas Creek and Santa Clara River watersheds) to examine the influence
of different land uses on the ecosystem health of stream communities.
Sampling locations in the Malibu Creek watershed included a number of sites
along Cold Creek, including a site in the Cold Creek Reserve that serves as
a reference site representing relatively undisturbed conditions in the Santa
Monica Mountains (also used by Heal the Bay in their watershed monitoring
program). We sampled many of the physical (water chemistry and flow,
channel morphology, substrate, light) and biological (riparian vegetation
characteristics, algae and macrophytes, benthic macroinvertebrates, fish)
features that contribute to the overall health of stream ecosystems. While
our project targeted individual sites based upon their land use
characteristics, our overall objective is to understand the factors
influencing the structure of stream benthic communities, particularly
benthic macroinvertebrates. In the past year, we have been completing
laboratory analyses of the samples and statistical analyses of the data.
________________________________________________________________________
#8.
Ecophysiology of ferns in chaparral and oak woodland habitats of the Santa
Monica Mountain
P.W. Rundel
Department of Organismic Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
Despite their otherwise high species
richness of vascular plants, the five mediterranean-climate regions of the
world are relatively poor in their diversity of fern species. We have
hypothesized that this low diversity relates to ecophysiological problems
of adaptation to summer dry mediterranean-climate conditions, especially
with regard to the degree of stomatal control present under exposure to
high vapor pressure gradients. It is not clear, however, whether, it is
the sporophyte or gametophyte stage of the fern life cycles that exert the
strongest limitations for survival. We are carrying out photosynthetic gas
exchange studies with four species of native ferns.
________________________________________________________________________
#9.Influence of nutrient loading on the
invasion of an alien plant species, giant cane (Arundo donax) in
Southern California riparian communities.
Gretchen C. Coffman
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
University of California, Los Angeles
Gretchen Coffman is
studying the ecological factors that promote invasions of giant cane (Arundo
donax) in riparian habitats of the Santa Monica Mountains. Her research is
focusing on field and experimental measurements of the significance of
nutrient-rich agricultural or urban runoff in promoting growth of arundo.
Her field sites include the Santa Clara River, Calleguas Creek, and Topanga
Creek. Gretchen is a doctoral student in the Environmental Science and
Engineering Program at UCLA.
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# 10. The
stability of frequency dependent dynamics in the side-blotched lizard
Ammon Corl (Dr. Barry
Sinervo, Advisor)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
One of the most common
mechanisms for maintaining phenotypic and genetic diversity is
frequency-dependent selection. However, few studies (if any) have studied
frequency dependence across multiple populations and through evolutionary
time. The side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) is ideal species
for the study of the maintenance a frequency-dependent system. A population
of U. stansburiana at Los Baños Grandes, California maintains three
different male morphs through frequency-dependent selection and two
different female morphs through density- and frequency-dependent selection.
The frequencies of both the male and female morphs cycle over time. My plan
was to reconstruct the evolutionary history of U. stansburiana in
order to understand how the frequency-dependent population dynamics of the
species has arisen and changed through time. The goal was to find
populations of side-blotched lizards, mark a large number of individuals,
and to score each individual for their throat color. Throat color scores
provide preliminary indications of the behavioral strategies in each
population. At Stunt Ranch, the lizards are found up the fireroad going up
into the Santa Monica Mountains. The highest densities are found at the
crossroads of trails (near where there is a bench). Other species in the
area are whiptails, Western fence lizards, and a kingsnake. I was looking
for the presence or absence of genetically determined behavioral morphs that
are found in the side-blotched lizard. Preliminary evidence indicates that
the morphs are likely to be found at Stunt Ranch.
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#11. The response of
pollinators to hybrid arrays of Penstemon centranthifolius and Penstemon
spectabili
Paul Wilson,
Elizabeth Jordan
Department of Biology
California State University, Northridge
Penstemon centranthifolius and Penstemon spectabilis grow
together in the Santa Monica Mountains, and very occasionally produce F1
hybrids. Parents and F1s were observed near the Reserve, but not on it.
Artificial backcrosses in both directions, F1s and both parents were grown
in pots. A linear relationship was found between parentage and many floral
characters, including the amount of nectar produced. Parents, F1s and
backcrosses were places in a 5 x 5 array on the Reserve. Pollinators were
allowed to forage. Ceratina
bees
preferred P. spectabilis over P. centranthifolius.
Hummingbirds preferred P. centranthifolius over P. spectabilis.
Hybrids tended to be treated by the animals like one parent or the other.
The response was not linear, rather it had a threshold to one side or the
other of the F1s. In order to test the hypothesis that nectar is the primary
reason why
hummingbirds prefer P.
centranthifolius, we added 5 uL of 19% sucrose solution hourly to P.
spectabilis and the backcrosses to P. spectabilis. This tended to
equalize
hummingbird preferences
between P. centranthifolius and P. spectabilis. The F1s that
were not augmented continued to be undervisited.
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# 12. Rainfall variation and persistence
of native plant in exotic grassland
Jonathan Levine and
Heather Coleman
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
This work is based on a
largely unanswered question in ecology, namely how rare species persist in
the presence of superior competitors, effective colonizers, and
well-defended counterparts. When examined on a population level, it would
seem that rare species are threatened by environmental fluctuations, as less
favorable conditions could substantially reduce their already low numbers.
However, we hypothesize that community level analysis might reveal the
benefits of variable environmental conditions for rare species. For example,
the possession of a seed bank allows rare species to remain dormant
throughout less profitable years and maximize their success in the eventual
presence of favorable conditions. In order to establish the importance of
unfavorable growing conditions in rare plant persistence, we manipulate
rainfall as a proxy, since Southern Californian plants are mainly limited by
their water supply. We are currently providing half of the plots with more
water than average. We also control the amount of litter covering plots, and
remove exotic grass competitors. Finally, we are excluding grazers from half
of the plots as well. Our goal is to understand the impact of variable
conditions on native plant communities in Southern California, thus
providing valuable information relevant to the management of these rare
species and to diversity preservation in general.
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2001-2002 PUBLICATIONS
Guo, Q. 2001. Early post-fire
succession in California chaparral: Changes in diversity, density, cover and
biomass. Ecological Research (2001) 16, 471-485.
Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. The historical role of fire in
California shrublands. Conservation Biology 15:1536-1548.
Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. History and management of
crown-fire ecosystems: A summary and response. Conservation Biology 15:
1561-1567
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.
Keeley, J.E. 2002. Fire management of California shrubland landscapes.
Environmental Management 29:395-408.
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 Environment 79 (2002) 60-71. Elsevier Science, Inc.
Rundel, P.W. 2002. Preserving biodiversity. pp. 4-13, In: Southern
California Environmental Report Card 2002. UCLA Institute of the
Environment, Los Angeles.
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.
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: (in press).
News item: Phil
Rundel together with Robert Gustafson of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural
History have a contract with the University of California Press to write a
new book, "Introduction to the Plants of Southern California.
This book will discuss the ecology, diversity and conservation of the
Southern California flora and will include approximately 250 high quality
color photographs.
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RESERVE
USE DATA 2001 - 2002
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
University-Level Research: 22 users, 230 user days
Faculty: 6 users, 60 user days
Research Scientist: 1 user, 30 user days
Graduate Student: 15 users, 140 user days
University –Level Instruction: 165 users, 275 user days
Instructors: 5 users, 25 user days
Students: 160 users, 250 user days
Public Service: 137 users, 185 user days
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
University-Level Instruction/Research: 54 users, 65 user days
Instructors/Faculty: 4 users, 15 user days
Students: 50 users, 50 user days
K-12
Users: 2820, user days, 3065
Students and adult chaperones): 2805 users, 2805 user days
Instructors (docents): 15 users, 260 user days
OTHER
Public Outreach: 40 users, 40 user days
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TOTAL: 3238 users, 3860 user days
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2001-2002
User's Affiliation
1. University of California campuses: Los
Angeles, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Davis, Berkeley
2. California State University System: California State University
Dominguez Hills, California State University Northridge
3. Other colleges/universities outside California: Trinity University
(Texas), University of the Western Cape (South Africa), University of Cape
Town (South Africa), University of Glamorgan (Wales, UK)
4. K-12 system: see list of schools attached
5. Federal/state/local governmental agencies: Los Angeles Unified School
District, Las Virgenes Unified School District, Santa Monica Unified
School District, National Park Service, City of Santa Monica
6. Local environmental/community organizations: California Science Center,
Cold Creek Docents, Mountains Restoration Trust, Mishkon Tephilo (a
synagogue environmental workshop)
7. International environmental agencies/organizations in CHILE:
Corporacion Nacional Forestal; and in SOUTH AFRICA: South African National
Parks, Western Cape Nature Conservation Board, Cape Peninsula National
Park, South African National Parks, National Working for Water Programme,
Cape Action for People and the Environment, CSIR Division of Water,
Environment and Forestry Technology, City of Cape Town
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2000 – 2001 K-12
USE
Coordinated by the Cold Creek Docents of the Mountains Restoration
Trust
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Bay Laurel Elementary,
Calabasas |
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Pacifica Montessori School,
Culver City |
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Compton High School, Compton |
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Bandini Elementary, San Pedro |
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Wilson Elementary, Lynwood |
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Germain St. Elementary,
Chatsworth |
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Jackson Elementary, Whittier |
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Halldale Elementary, Torrance |
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Bellagio Newcomers School, Los
Angeles |
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Los Feliz Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Vintage Ave. Elementary, North
Hills |
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Liggett Elementary, Panorama
City |
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Plummer Elementary, North
Hills |
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Wilton Place Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Normont Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Russell Ave Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Laurel Elementary, Los Angeles |
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Windsor Hills Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Euclid Ave Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Boys Republic – Community
Education Center, Monrovia |
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Franklin Ave. Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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20th Street
Elementary, Los Angeles |
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Community Magnet School, Los
Angeles |
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Stoner Ave. Elementary, Culver
City |
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Charter School, Los Angeles |
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Harbor Science Magnet
Elementary, San Pedro |
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Vena Elementary, Arleta |
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Lockhurst Elementary, Woodland
Hills |
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Walter Reed Middle School,
North Hollywood |
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L.B. Weemes Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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King Elementary, Los Angeles |
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Turningpoint School, Culver
City |
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Round Meadow Elementary, Los
Virgenes |
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Our Lady of the Valley, Canoga
Park |
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Nimitz Middle School,
Huntington Park |
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Maimonides Academy, Los
Angeles |
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Hyde Park Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Lincoln Middle School, Santa
Monica |
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Main Street Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Woodlawn Ave. Elementary, Bell |
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Bandini Elementary, San Pedro |
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Kennedy Elementary, Los
Angeles |
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Personnel
Updates
PHILIP
W. RUNDEL
Reserve Faculty Director: Philip Rundel is a professor in the
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, at UCLA. He is a
former UCLA representative to the UC Natural Reserve System Advisory
Committee. Rundel has a broad research program involving a variety of
aspects of plant ecology and ecophysiology, with a special emphasis on
chaparral ecosystems of Southern California and warm desert ecosystems of
the Mojave Desert. Field works centers on studies at Stunt Ranch and in
the desert at the Sweeney Granite Mountains Reserve, Edwards Air Force
base, and the Fort Irwin National Training Center. In March 2002 he
presented an invited paper at an international conference, "Promoting Best
Practices for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity of Global
Significance in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones", in Santiago Chile. In addition
to these studies, he continues an active program of research on the
ecophysiology of plants in tropical environments. This research involved
field studies at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica in January,
and he mentored an undergraduate student from the University of New Mexico
in a La Selva NSF program in Research Experience for Undergraduate
Students. Rundel has also been appointed to the Research Committee for the
Organization for Tropical Studies, a consortium of universities and
scientific institutions that sponsors international research and education
programs on tropical ecology. Other administrative activities in the past
year have included serving on an NSF panel reviewing proposals for
Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT), and similar
efforts in Brussels reviewing research programs in global change ecology
and desertification for the European Union.
CAROL
FELIXSON
Reserve Director of Education and Community Outreach: In
addition to her work for the Stunt Ranch Reserve, Carol Felixson also
serves as the docent and communications coordinator for the Mildred E.
Mathias Botanical Garden (MEMBG) at UCLA. Felixson writes Carol’s Corner,
a regular column in the MEMBG newsletter, about “what’s going on” in the
garden. She also is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times Reading by
Nine literacy program. Felixson writes about the plants and animals found
at the reserve and in the garden for the
Los Angeles Times Kids Page California Classroom.
Accompanying illustrations by children between the ages of 5-12 are unique
to her articles. Felixson, a graduate in Social Welfare from the
University
of Wisconsin, Madison, completed a Professional Designation in Public
Relations from UCLA Extension.
LISA
POMPELLI
Reserve Design Consultant: Lisa Pompelli is an
illustrator and exhibit designer for the Stunt Ranch Reserve. She recently
created, with Dr. Phil Rundel, an educational poster on the
Mediterranean-Climate Regions of the World. She currently teaches
botanical illustration at the Huntington Botanical Garden where she
continues to design posters for their science and botany programs.
Pompelli attended Art Center College of Design and graduated with a degree
in Geography at UCLA
UCLA
RESERVE FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Philip W. Rundel, Chair: Professor in the Department of Organismic
Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, at UCLA.
Richard F. Ambrose: Associate Professor in the UCLA School of
Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Director
of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program.
Jeanne Arnold: is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA and an
archaeologist with a research focus on California and the northern Pacific
Coast. Dr. Arnold is co-director of an international (US-Canada)
collaborative archaeological research project on the later prehistory of
southern British Columbia and is also engaged in a 3-year
ethnoarchaeological project on western Native American and modern Los
Angeles household architecture, family interactions, and spatial
dimensions of activity areas. She and her students continue to do research
on the Channel Islands and mainland southern California. Her new book, The
Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom: The Chumash of the Channel Islands,
was published last year.
Martin Cody: Professor in the Department of Organismic Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution, at UCLA. In this last year Cody continued with
long-tern research projects on bird breeding densities in Grand Teton
National Park (June) and on plant colonization-extinction dynamics on
islands in British Columbia. Also gave seminars at the University of
Missouri St Louis, Valparaiso Chile, and at Cal State University
Northridge, attended the EcolSocAmerica conference for an invited
symposium.
Art Huffman: Senior Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy. He teaches
physics and astronomy in regular session and in extension classes,
develops labs and new classes, gives demonstration shows at schools, and
runs observation astronomy trips to dark sky sites, including Stunt Ranch.
Peter Nonacs: Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic
Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, at UCLA. Dr. Nonacs serves as UCLA
representative to the UC Natural Reserve System Advisory Committee. Nonacs
research interests are behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both
theoretical and experimental approaches.
Hartmut Walter: Professor of Geography. Dr. Walter traveled to
southern Italy last November to begin a study of the native environments
of some of California's bothersome introduced weed species such as fennel,
salt cedar and giant arundo. He is currently engaged in the development of
a Web and CD-ROM version of his biogeographic field course; modules for
each study site in southern California will enable students and teachers
to learn field methodologies and to practice ecological field exercises.
The Stunt Ranch is one of the areas used by his field course.
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UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica
Mountains Reserve
MISCELLANEOUS
Managing Conservation Lands in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems: Southern
California and the Cape Region of South Africa.
•
South African Participants
• Program and Field Trip Highlights
Los Angeles Times
Reading by 9, California Classroom
• Chaparral
• Firestorms
• Rattlesnakes
UCLA Today
• Red, white and blue in post-September 11 America
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Southern California and the
Cape Region of South Africa April 2-4, 2001 Covel Commons, UCLA Campus
SOUTH AFRICAN PARTICIPANTS
Paul
Britton,
Manager for Planning, Cape Peninsula National Park, South African National
Park
Fanie
Bekker,
Operations Director, Western Cape Nature
Conservation Board
David
Daitz,
Chief Executive Officer, Western Cape Nature
Conservation Board
Paddy
Gordon,
Area Manager of Table Mountain Region, Cape Peninsula National Park, South
African National Parks
Richard
Knight,
Senior Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of the Western Cape
Howard Langley,
Park Manager, Cape Peninsula National Park, South African National Parks
Christo Marais,
Acting General Manager/Research Manager, National Working for Water Programme
Nonhlanhla
Mkhize,
Technical Research Coordinator, National Working for Water Programme
Dave Richardson,
Chief Research
Officer, Institute for Plant Conservation, Botany Department, University of
Cape Town
Trevor Sandwith,
Coordinator, Cape Action for People and the Environment (CAPE)
Brian van
Wilgen,
Ecologist/Divisional Fellow, CSIR Division of Water, Environment and
Forestry Technology
Ernita van
Wyk,
Ecologist/Researcher for Catchment Management, CSIR Division of Water,
Environment and Forestry Technology
Julia Wood,
Principal
Environmental Specialist, Environmental Management Directorate, South
Peninsula Administration, City of
Cape Town
Introduction to Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems of Southern
California and the Cape Region, South Africa.
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Southern
California. Phil Rundel |
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The Cape
Region of South Africa. David Daitz |
Critical Resources and Parklands: Regional, National and
International Significance.
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Santa Monica
Mountains, Channel Islands and Southern California.
Ray Sauvajot and Kate Faulkner |
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The Cape
Peninsula of South Africa. Howard Langley |
Working Together:
Institutional Challenges for Effective Conservation at the Ecoregional
Scale.
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Santa Monica
Mountains, Channel Islands and Southern California.
Woody Smeck |
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The Cape Peninsula of South Africa.
Fanie Bekker |
Prioritizing and Implementing Land
Protection Strategies: Politics, Pitfalls and Progress of Parkland
Protection in South Africa and Southern California.
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Cape Action
Plan for People and the Environment: Putting Plans into Action.
Trevor Sandwith |
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The
Experience from Cape Peninsula National Park.
Paul Britton |
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Provincial
and Local South African parks. Fanie Bekker |
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The
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Land Protection Plan.
Woody Smeck |
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The Role of
Land Conservancies. Joe Edmiston |
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Public/Private/Community Partnerships for Land Protection.
Steve Harris |
Panel discussion:
Protecting Parklands:
Trevor Sandwith, Paul Britton, Fanie Bekker, Woody Smeck, Joe
Edmiston, Steve Harris
Science and Resource Management
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The Role of
Scientific Information in Park Protection and Management.
Trevor Sandwith and Ray Sauvajot |
Habitat Loss and Fragmentation
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Urban
Encroachment and Fragmentation Effects on Vertebrates.
Seth Riley |
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Ecological
Effects of Fragmentation in the Cape Peninsula.
Richard Knight |
Protecting and Restoring Wetland Habitats
and Watersheds
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The Working
for Water Program: Using Natural Resource Repair to Develop the Poor.
Christo Marais |
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Wetland
Management and Restoration in the Cape Peninsula.
Julia Wood |
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Managing
Water Resources to Retain an Ecological Reserve.
Ernita van Wyk |
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Wetland
Restoration in Southern California. Richard
Ambrose |
Panel Discussion:
Wetland Restoration and Management.
Christo Marais, Julia Wood, Ernita van Wyk,
Richard Ambrose, Suzanne Goode
Managing Invasive Plants
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Managing
Invasive Alien Plant Species: A Regional Comparison.
Dave Richardson |
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Biocontrol of
Acacias: South African Experiences and Success Stories in the Fynbos
Biome. Nonhlanhla Mkize |
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Managing
Invasive Alien Plant Species: Southern California Experiences.
Suzanne Goode |
Panel Discussion:
Managing Invasive Plants.
Dave Richardson, Nonhlanhla Mkize, Suzanne Goode, John Tiszler
Fire Ecology and Management
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Fire Ecology
and Management of South African Shrublands. Brian van Wilgen
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Fire Ecology
and Management of California Shrublands. Jon
Keeley |
Panel Discussion: Fire
Ecology and Management.
Brian van Wilgen, Jon Keeley, Corrina Marote, John Tiszler
Community Outreach,
Education and Involvement.
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The Cape
Peninsula of South Africa. Paddy Gordon and
Paul Britton |
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Environmental
Education and Southern California Parks.
Debbie Conway and Barbara Applebaum |
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Connecting to
Communities Through Media Outreach and Public Awareness.
Charles Taylor |
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The
Mediterranean Coast Network Learning Center.
Ray Sauvajot |
Panel Discussion:
Education and Outreach.
Paddy Gordon, Paul Britton, Debbie Conway, Barbara Applebaum, Charles
Taylor, Ray Sauvajot
Parallel Challenges and
Opportunities in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystem Parks: What Have We Learned?
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The Cape
Peninsula of South Africa. Howard Langley |
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The Santa
Monica Mountains, Channel Islands and Southern California.
Ray Sauvajot |
Panel Discussion: What
Does the Future Hold for International Park Conservation and Management?
David Daitz, Howard Langley, Trevor Sandwith, Ray Sauvajot, Rorie Skei, Kate
Faulkner
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FIELD TRIP HIGHLIGHTS:
Introduction to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area,
Park
Headquarters, Thousand Oaks.
• Ray Sauvajot
The Simi Hills. Discuss urban encroachment, Calabasas landfill, habitat
fragmentation, exotic plant control, and fire ecology and management via
loop
through Cheeseboro and Palo Comado Canyons.
• Ray Sauvajot, Corrina Marote, John Tiszler, Marti Witter, Carnivore,
Project Crew: Piper Roby and Cass Bromley
Zuma Ridge, Zuma Canyon, and Zuma Lagoon. Discuss urban interface
issues,
more fire ecology and management, sensitive species, and interagency
restoration
efforts.
• John Tiszler, Corrina Marote, Marti Witter
Trippet Ranch and Topanga State Park. Discuss education and outreach
issues,
community involvement, park uses and visitor management, and adjacency of
Los
Angeles. Walk to city overlook and pass by Grandma Oak.
• John Tiszler, Phil Rundel, Brendan Clarke
La Jolla Valley Preserve morning hike or hike leaders choice.
• John Tiszler, Corrina Marote, Scott Story
Cold Creek Preserve. Discuss Malibu Creek issues including water quality,
exotic
species control, reintroduction of steelhead, human impacts in canyon, etc.
• Ray Sauvajot, John Tiszler, Phil Rundel
Cold Creek Preserve. Hike from upper Cold Creek to Stunt Road, ending at
UC
Stunt Ranch Reserve. Discuss public/private partnerships for land
protection, etc.
• Jo Kitz, Andrea Warniment, Phil Rundel
UCLA Stunt Ranch Reserve. Overview of reserve and research issues;
education
and outreach.
• Phil Rundel, Carol Felixson, Nancy Helsley
Optional Channel Islands Field Trip
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