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	Ecology of California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		California's high mountains block most moisture from reaching the eastern parts of the state, which are home to California's desert and xeric shrub ecoregions.
		California's Central Valley was once a large temperate grassland, the California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, which was formerly home to great herds of grazing pronghorn and elk; some writers have referred to it as "America's Serengeti".
		The mountains of northern California have a cooler and wetter climate, and are home to temperate coniferous forests, including the Sierra Nevada forests, Northern California coastal forests, Klamath-Siskiyou forests, and Central and Southern Cascades forests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecology_of_California (411 words)

	California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		California was poorly settled until modern public health eliminated the endemic outbreaks of yellow fever, malaria and plague, caused from the area’s lack of frosts, which kills mosquitoes and fleas.
		California's vast terrain is connected by an extensive system of freeways, expressways, and highways, all maintained by Caltrans and patrolled by the California Highway Patrol, except for the numbered expressways in Santa Clara County which were built and maintained by the county itself.
		California is governed as a republic, with three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the Governor of California and the other independently elected constitutional officers; the legislative branch consisting of the Assembly and Senate; and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of California and lower courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California (7297 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : California (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		California's giant judiciary is the largest in the United States (with a total of 1,600 judges, while the federal system has only about 840).
		California is famous for its earthquakes, due partly to the presence of the San Andreas Fault.
		California's vast terrain is connected by an extensive system of freeways, expressways, and highways, all maintained by Caltrans and patrolled by the California Highway Patrol.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/California.html (4737 words)

	California Plant Ecology
		California native ecosystems and the way they work (cooperation) are very different from the way the plants in a common garden grow (competition).
		Native plants of the valley grassland, coastal prairie and most other California plant communities survive because the ecosystem is a protective, closed biomass system (all the biomass in the system is conserved and recycled) based on plant community, mycorrhizal community, climate and soil types.
		California does not have highly fertile soils in any plant community (other than Riparian) unless the community is destroyed or burned because the community structure limits the nutrition of the site.
	www.laspilitas.com /advanced/advecology.htm (2835 words)

	Ecology of California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The lowdesert of southeastern California is part of the Sonoran desert ecoregion, which extends into Arizona and parts of northern Mexico.
		California's Central Valley was once a large temperategrassland, the California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, which was formerly home to great herdsof grazing pronghorn and Wapiti ; somewriters have referred to it as "America's Serengeti ".
		The mountains of northern California have a cooler and wetter climate, and are home to Temperate Coniferous Forests, including the Sierra Nevadaforests, Northern California coastal forests, Klamath-Siskiyouforests, and Central and Southern Cascades forests.
	www.therfcc.org /ecology-of-california-21790.html (359 words)

	LearnCalifornia.org - California Geography and Ecology
		California is no more prone to severe earthquakes than any other part of the country.
		You are in a major California city, the home of the first Spanish mission founded in the state.
		The tallest mountain in California, indeed the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states is:
	www.learncalifornia.org /doc.asp?id=922 (513 words)

	Game Bird Program - California Quail
		California Quail (Callipepla californica) are mostly distributed in California, Oregon, and Washington.
		In Oregon, California Quail were native to the southwestern Oregon, but have been transplanted to many other counties throughout the state.
		California Quail are associated with early-successional shrubby habitats.
	fw.oregonstate.edu /gamebird/html/california.htm (139 words)

	Institute of Ecology - Conservation Faculty
		Ecology and evolution of mating systems and variation in reproductive behavior; the causes and consequences of sexual reproduction; social behavior of vertebrates, particularly birds; sex allocation (the distribution of effort to male versus female function) including sex ratios of progeny; parentage studies using DNA markers; statistics of genetic parentage studies, social behavior of female vertebrates.
		Population and theoretical ecology; ecology of coral reefs; predator-prey dynamics; biological and historical origins of diversity, energy flow and food utilization in tropical marine ecosystems; biogeography of tropical marine organisms; paleontology and the use of the fossil records to interpret the ecology of ancient and recent environments; systematics of the scleractinian corals.
		Population ecology and biology of loggerhead and hawksbill sea turtles; ecology and population biology of long-lived organisms; barrier island ecosystems; restoration ecology of beach and dune systems; sustainable utilization and ecology of tropical rainforests.
	www.ecology.uga.edu /people/facultycons.htm (1459 words)

	BAJA DESERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Baja California peninsula of Mexico is a long finger of land about 150 km wide and extending 1,300 km south from the border with California in the USA to the Tropic of Cancer near its southern tip.
		Several mountain ranges form a backbone to Baja California, so that the land rises from sea level on the west (Pacific) coast to elevations ranging from about 1200 to 3000 metres, before dropping again towards the Gulf of California.
		The deserts of Baja California are further south than those of the USA, with a milder, subtropical climate where frosts seldom occur at the lower elevations.
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/desertecology/bajacali.htm (426 words)

	California Sea Lions and Northern Fur Seals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Observations of marked California sea lions will be used to estimate survival and natality rates for the population.
		Five hundred California sea lions were branded at San Miguel Island to continue studies of survival and natality of the population.
		A study comparing foraging ecology of California sea lions and northern fur seal females was initiated in summer 2001.
	nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /CaliforniaCurrent/CalslNorthfs.htm (281 words)

	Ecology Center
		The Ecology Center has joined progressive recycling organizations to stop the emergence of bio-based plastic bottles, until key concerns are adequately addressed.
		Read about the how the Ecology Center is addressing historic health disparities and food injustices in Berkeley and beyond by connecting small organic farmers with low income communities of color.
		Because of a well-documented threat to stable, healthy human existence, individuals and organizations are seeking the most effective ways to do their part for a sustainable society: they want information, tools, technical assistance, referrals, political strategies, and models of sustainable living.
	www.ecologycenter.org (812 words)

	Davis, California: Ecology, Sustainable Urban Development
		Yet in one northern California hamlet, residents are lining up for the privilege of having their lawns monitored for eco-incorrect sproutings.
		One of the ten University of California campuses, it was founded as the ‘University Farm’ in 1908 and its focus on life sciences has led to a stellar international reputation in agricultural, biological, biotechnological and environmental sciences.
		With students and faculty making up nearly half the total population of 62,000, Davis is one of the last ‘college towns’ in California—and its residents boast the highest level of education per capita in the state, ranking second in the nation.
	www.ru.org /113-Davis-California.htm (1247 words)

	Appendix 5 - Schoolyard Ecology Portraits, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Teachers put together individual Schoolyard Ecology Classroom Study Kits to be used to develop inquiry activities for their students during the next school year.
		The principals and superintendents from each school site were invited to our final activities and awards ceremony where we presented all participants with a certificate of completion and a small gift reflecting their unique contributions to our institute.
		The inquiry was "Abiotic factors--learning ecology using the inquiry approach".
	www.ecostudies.org /syefest/appen5ca.htm (3866 words)

	California Coastal Ecology
		At the end of the 90's though, the California Fish and Game said that budget constraints made it impossible to enforce a restriction on the number of traps that a commercial fisherman could set.
		The biggest impact on the reef, by far, was the Russian fur hunters of the previous century that removed the Sea Otter, the primary carnivore of the reef ecology.
		Harvesting, pollution, disease and other factors have left the reefs of California relatively barren of much of the animal life that was once abundant.
	diver.net /seahunt/d_hunt.htm (2467 words)

	The Ecology of Marine Fishes
		Marine fishes have been intensively studied, and some of the fundamental ideas in the science of marine ecology have emerged from the body of knowledge derived from this diverse group of organisms.
		The focus is on the fauna of the eastern Pacific, especially the fishes of the California coast, a group among the most diverse and best studied of all marine ecosystems.
		Michael H. Horn is Professor of Biology at California State University, Fullerton, and coeditor, with Karen Martin and Michael Chotkowski, of Intertidal Fishes (1998).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10513.html (392 words)

	ECOLOGY
		Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California at Irvine
		Biodiversity, Ecology, and the Environment is part of Harvard Biolabs' biosciences department in the WWW Virtual Library.
		The University of California Davis Institute of Theoretical Dynamics is a research unit that focuses on computational biology, applied mathematical analysis, and mathematical physics.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/cesmg/ecology.html (2182 words)

	The PPD Department, School of Social Ecology, and Southern California
		The department is part of the multidisciplinary School of Social Ecology, a bold and successful venture linking the planning, policy, and design department with departments in environmental health and science, criminology, and psychology in common pursuit of applied research on important social and environmental problems.
		Social ecology courses and research programs draw on these diverse fields to generate deep understanding of contemporary issues.
		Students have the flexibility to choose courses from within the department, the School of Social Ecology or from academic units on campus.
	www.seweb.uci.edu /ppd/dept_school.uci (601 words)

	physics - Ecology of California
		California's Central Valley was once a large temperate grassland, the California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, which was formerly home to great herds of grazing pronghorn and Wapiti; some writers have referred to it as "America's Serengeti".
		The Central Valley has been mostly converted to farms and rangeland; its once great seasonal wetlands have been drained and its perennial bunch grasses replaced by exotic annual grasses or farm fields, but patches of the native bunchgrasses still exist, as do some of the small seasonal wetlands known as vernal pools.
		The highest peaks are home to Mountain-tops contain tundra, fellfields (stony ground with patches of meadow), and krummholz (dwarf forests).
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Ecology_of_California (376 words)

	UCI Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
		The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology seeks to fill two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in ecology.
		The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (http://ecoevo.bio.uci.edu/) maintains strong ties with the Department of Earth System Sciences in the area of global change ecology (http://globalchange.bio.uci.edu/; http://www.ess.uci.edu/).
		The University of California, Irvine has an active career partner program, is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity, and has a National Science Foundation Advance Gender Equity Program.
	ecoevo.bio.uci.edu /news/ecology_positions.htm (228 words)

	CGS Ecology
		The human relation to and dependence upon other forms of life are nowhere illustrated more clearly than in the fields of human health and agriculture.
		Spermophilus beecheyi populations cause hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural damage annually and also there where they serve as a major public health threat as a host for etiologic agents and vectors of many diseases including bubonic plague, which is transferable to humans via rodent fleas.
		Ecology and Natural History of the California Ground Squirrel
	www.webpages.uidaho.edu /~hubb8662/cgs_ecology.htm (215 words)

	UC Davis Ecology - Ecology Home
		The UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology (GGE) is a diverse and dynamic group of ~200 students and 125 faculty from 24 different departments/ units on campus.
		With the largest and most comprehensive ecology graduate training group of its kind, GGE offers unparalleled diversity and depth in course work and research opportunities.
		The GGE defines ecology broadly to span scales from genes to landscapes and explicitly includes human ecology and policy.
	ecology.ucdavis.edu (261 words)

	Cal Coast Divers Marine Ecology Pages: The California Spiny Lobster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The California Spiny Lobster's ecology is not very well studied at this time.
		It has been my experience that during the initial months of lobster season lobsters are more common to shallower depths where lobster seem to gather in the early and late summer months to tend and hatch their brood.
		Conservation: The California Spiny Lobster is a highly prized cuisine, and an especially large attraction for certified divers.
	www.calcoastdivers.com /ecology/id/lobster.html (768 words)

	UC Irvine, School of Social Ecology
		The School of Social Ecology is an interdisciplinary academic unit whose scholarly research and instruction is informed by and contributes to knowledge in the social, behavioral, legal, environmental, and health sciences.
		Social Ecology faculty apply scientific methods to the study of a wide array of recurring social, behavioral, and environmental problems.
		While the field of ecology focuses on the relationships between organisms and their environments, social ecology is concerned with the relationships between human populations and their environments.
	www.seweb.uci.edu (206 words)

	Ecological Regions
		Another way of recognizing California's diversity, then, is to examine its geographically distinct regions from the point of view of ecology.
		In California, life became so environmentally focused that many more than one hundred different tibes and tribelets were well established by the 18th Century, when Europeans first began to explore the region.
		The ecology of natural environments is diverse; it is a trait of modern human environments that they tend away from diversity toward uniformity.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/indian/california/ecology.htm (1015 words)

	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
		Faculty research interests cover a wide range of modern biology, and are grouped in four research clusters focusing on behavior and physiology, conservation biology, marine and terrestrial ecology, and evolution.
		JOB OPPORTUNITY : Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is conducting recruitments for the academic year 2006-07 for a Comparative Animal Physiologist, a Plant Evolutionary Biologist and a Quantitative Ecologist all at the Assistant Professor level.
		The graduate program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) is comprised of four core tracks: (1) population and community ecology (2) evolutionary biology (3) physiology and behavior including marine and terrestrial animals and (4) systematics and biodiversity.
	www.biology.ucsc.edu /eeb (236 words)

	California Riparian Systems: Ecology, Conservation, and Productive Management
		The Role of Streamside Bufferstrips in the Ecology of Aquatic Biota1
		Geographical Ecology of the Sacramento Valley Riparian Butterfly Fauna1
		© 2003 The Regents of the University of California
	ark.cdlib.org /ark:/13030/ft1c6003wp (1089 words)

	Global Climate Change and California
		California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation.
		These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change--temperature increases, water shortages, more ultraviolet radiation.
		The warning inherent in a scenario of unchecked population growth and energy use in California applies to residents of the entire planet.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/2662.html (245 words)

	EME Systems projects page
		It is a teaching laboratory in tropical island ecology, ethnology and marine biology and a facility for serious research.
		Part of the Natural Reserve System of the University of California, the reserve is home to classes and ongoing research on the ecology of the California coastal mountains.
		The South Fork of the Eel River runs through the preserve, and the watershed of Elder Creek is entirely within the park, one of the largest completely protected watersheds in the State.
	www.emesystems.com /projects.htm (639 words)

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