• Coastal Sage Scrub (Google)
• Coastal Sage Scrub  (FAST Search)
• California* Scrub* (Google)
• California Gnatcatcher (Google)

Searching for Articles:

• One might get a few free articles with this Google search: coastal sage scrub pdf
• Agricola: the general public can access the National Agriculture Library website to search the Agricola database. A good search strategy is:

  coastal sage 
  OR 
  california* AND scrub* 
  OR
  coastal scrub*

• Students and faculty here at Cal Poly Pomona can search the databases on our Databases page. Included on that page is the Firstsearch version of Agricola (which I consider superior to the National Agriculture Library version). Other databases on that page of possible use are BasicBiosis,  Biological Abstracts, Academic Search Elite, JSTOR (has a large number of full text articles) and the Biological and Agricultural Index. At the time of this writing, the Biological Abstracts database is the best source.
• For persons without a library affiliation, see Getting Along Without a Library.

Keywords for Searching this Subject:

• coastal sage
• soft chaparral
• riversidean sage
• san diegan sage
• california* AND scrub*
• coastal scrub*
• southern coastal scrub*
• mediterranean AND (ecosystem* OR biome OR communit* OR habitat* OR climat*) AND (calfornia* or mexic*)
• coastal sage scrub AND (fire* OR postfire* OR burn* OR postburn* OR unburned OR pyrogenicity)