Articles and Bibliographies on Coastal Sage Scrub

Free Full Text Scholarly Articles on the Web:

Andelman SJ, Fagan WF Umbrellas and flagships: Efficient conservation surrogates or expensive mistakes? (also  here) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 23; 97(11): 5954-5959.

Atwood, Jonathan L. and Jeffery S Bolsinger.1992.  Elevational Distribution of California Gnatcatchers in the United States. Journal of Field Ornithology. 63(2):159-168.

Burger J. C., R. A. Redak, E. B. Allen, J. T. Rotenberry, and M. F. Allen.2003. Restoring Arthropod Communities in Coastal Sage Scrub. Conservation Biology  17(2): 460-467.

Fisher, Robert N., Andrew V. Suarez, and Ted J. Case. 2002  Spatial Patterns in the abundance of the coastal horned lizard. Conservation Biology 16(1): 205-215.

Gabert, Emmanuel J. and Thomas Dunne.2002 Landslides on coastal sage-scrub and Grassland Hillslopes in a Severe El Nino Winter: The effects on vegetation conversion on sediment delivery. Geological Society of America Bulletin.114(8): 983-990.

Gabert, Emmanuel J. and Thomas Dunne. 2003. A stochastic sediment delivery model for a steep Mediterranean landscape. Water Resources Research 39 (9, 1237) ESG2-1 to ESG 2-12.

Halsey, Richard W. 2004. In search of allelopathy: an eco-historical view of the investigation of chemical inhibition in California coastal sage scrub and chamise chaparral. (Findarticles.com html version) The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society: Vol. 131, No. 4, pp. 343–367.

JAMES, MATHEW L.and JOY B. ZEDLER Dynamics of Wetland and Upland Subshrubs at the Salt\par Marsh-Coastal Sage Scrub Ecotone The American Midland Naturalist 143(2):298-311. 2000  doi: 10.1674/0003-0031(2000)143[0298:DOWAUS]2.0.CO;2

Montalvo, Arlee M. and Norman C. Ellstrand Nonlocal transplantation and outbreeding depression in the subshrub Lotus scoparius (Fabaceae) American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:258-269.

Stanton, Patricia A.May-June 1986 Comparison of Avian Community Dynamics of Burned and Unburned Coastal Sage Scrub   Condor: 88(3):  285-289.

Talluto, Matt V., Katharine Nash Suding, Peter A. Bowler. FACTORS AFFECTING UNDERSTORY ESTABLISHMENT IN COASTAL SAGE SCRUB RESTORATION. Madroño 53(1):55-59. 2006 doi: 10.3120/0024-9637(2006)53[55:FAUEIC]2.0.CO;2

Wood, Yvonne A., Thomas Meixner, Peter J. Shouse and Edith B. Allen. Altered Ecohydrologic Response Drives Native Shrub Loss under Conditions of Elevated Nitrogen Deposition Journal of Environmental Quality 35:76-92 (2006) DOI: 10.2134/jeq2004.0465

Yoshida, Lidia C. and Edith B. Allen Response to ammonium and nitrate by a mycorrhizal annual invasive grass and native shrub in southern California American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:1430-1436

Additional full text articles might be found at :

• National Science Digital Library
• OpenDOAR Try using the search strings coastal sage scrub or coastal sage scrub pdf for articles.
• SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
• Ecological Society of America Journals search.
• Findarticles.com

but these are more related to details about the animal species (particularly the gnatcatcher) found in coastal sage scrub than studying the ecosystem as a whole. Also, keep in mind that there a not large numbers of free full text articles out there.

Sites with Bibliographies

• O'Leary, John Francis. 1994. Bibliographies on coastal sage scrub and related malacophyllous shrublands of other Mediterranean-type climates  Sacramento, Calif. : Resources Agency, California Dept. of Fish and Game.
• BIBLIOGRAPHY of the The UCI Ecological Preserve Draft Management Plan.
• Here are the results of an older bibliographic search on CSS from the Agricola database (last updated March 12, 2001).