Santa Barbara County Oak Woodland Inventory and Monitoring

The UCSB Biogeography Lab conducted a pilot Santa Barbara County Oak Woodland Inventory and Monitoring Program with the following objectives:

Cumulative Biological Impacts Framework for Solar Energy Projects in the California Desert

Project Brief (click to download)

Initial Implementation of U.S. State Wildlife Action Plans Impacts, Challenges and Enabling Mechanisms

In 2007 a distributed graduate seminar at eight universities analyzed the recently completed state wildlife action plans. We interviewed agency personnel and stakeholders in all 50 states to document impacts of the plans on conservation activities, current challenges to implementation, and enabling mechanisms that have accelerated conservation progress.
Please follow this link to our final report, state-by-state and regional summaries of findings.

Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the Cape proteaceae

P. Williams, Hannah, L., Andelman, S., Midgley, G., Araujo, M., Hughes, G., Manne, L., Martinez-Meyer, E., and Pearson, R., “Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the Cape proteaceae”, Conservation Biology, vol. 19, pp. 1063-1074, 2005.

Anthropogenic impacts upon plant species richness and NPP in California

J. W. Williams, Seabloom, E. W., Slayback, D., Stoms, D. M., and Viers, J. H., “Anthropogenic impacts upon plant species richness and NPP in California”, Ecology Letters, vol. 8, pp. 127-137, 2005.

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

A. A. Whipple, Grossinger, R. M., and Davis, F. W., “Shifting Baselines in a California Oak Savanna: Nineteenth Century Data to Inform Restoration Scenarios”, Restoration Ecology, vol. 19, pp. 88-101, 2011.

Impacts of Nitrogen Deposition on California Ecosystems and Biodiversity

S. B. Weiss, “Impacts of Nitrogen Deposition on California Ecosystems and Biodiversity”, University of California Santa Barbara and Creekside Center for Earth Observations, Santa Barbara, 2006.

Inclusion of a simple multiple scattering model into a microwave canopy backscatter model

Y. Wang, Paris, J. F., and Davis, F. W., “Inclusion of a simple multiple scattering model into a microwave canopy backscatter model”, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 63, pp. 101-111, 1998.

The effects of changes in loblolly pine biomass and soil moisture on ERS-1 SAR backscatter

Y. Wang, Kasischke, E. S., Melack, J. M., Davis, F. W., and Christensen, N. L., J., “The effects of changes in loblolly pine biomass and soil moisture on ERS-1 SAR backscatter”, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 49, pp. 25-31, 1994.

Modeling L-Band Radar Backscatter of Alaskan Boreal Forest

Y. Wang, Day, J. L., Davis, F. W., and Melack, J. M., “Modeling L-Band Radar Backscatter of Alaskan Boreal Forest”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, vol. 31, pp. 1146-1154, 1993.

BIOGEOGRAPHY LAB

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara