University of California Press



The Environmental Legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System

Edited by Peggy L. Fiedler, Susan Gee Rumsey, and Kathleen M. Wong

Published by UC Press, 2013

Bibliography: All References, Including Sources and Literature Cited

Editors’ Note: Included in this section are all sources consulted in the preparation of this book as well as a selected listing of research conducted at each of the NRS reserves. This list includes master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and published research in peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, and selected technical reports. These references are not comprehensive but serve to illustrate the range of research that has been, and continues to be, conducted at NRS reserves.

Part I: Inspiration and Vision

Alagona, P. S. 2008. Homes on the range: Cooperative conservation and environmental change on California’s privately owned hardwood rangelands. Environmental History 13: 287-311.

Anonymous. 1939. “Dr. Grinnell, famous U.C. scientist, dies: Ornithologist succumbs to heart attack,” The San Francisco Examiner, 30 May 1939.

California Environmental Quality Act, “Article 20 Definitions,”

California State Department of Education. 2006. A Master Plan for Higher Education in California, 1960-1975, Sacramento. 230 pp.

Gomez-Pompa, A. 1998. Letter nominating Wilbur Mayhew for Chevron Conservation Awards Program.

Herring, M. 2000. Studying nature in nature: The history of the University of California Natural Reserve System. Chronicle of the University of California 3: 65-74.

Koenig, W. D. 1981a. Space competition in the acorn woodpecker: power struggles in a cooperative breeder. Animal Behaviour 29: 396-409.

--------. 1981b. Reproductive success, group size, and evolution of cooperative breeding in the acorn woodpecker. American Naturalist 117: 396-409.

Koenig, W. D. and J. M. H. Knops. 2002. The behavioral ecology of masting in oaks. In Oak Forest Ecosystems, W. J. McShea and W. M. Healy (eds.), 129-148. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Kohler, R.E. 2002. Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 341 pp.

Mathias, M. 1970. Natural Land and Water Reserves System of the University of California. Biological Conservation: 2:4.

Mathias, M. 1973. The value of natural areas. Fremontia 1: 3-6.

Mathias, M. 1982. “Among the plants of the earth oral history transcript,” interviewed by Mary Terrall in 1978 and 1979, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles.

Mayhew, W.W. 1998. “Transcription of Oral History Interview with Wilbur W. Mayhew, August 10, 1998,” UC Riverside.

Mittermeier, R. A., P. R. Gil, M. Hoffmann, J. Pilgram, T. Brooks, C. G. Mittermeier, J. Lamoreaux, and G. A. B. Da Fonseca. 2004. Hotspots Revisited. Cemex, Mexico City. 390 pp.

Norris, K. S. to Clark Kerr, 4 June 1963, NRS collection.

Norris, K. S. 1966. The Use of Natural Land and Water Reserve Land. February 11, 1966.

--------. 1997. Letter of support for Bill Mayhew to Chevron Conservation Awards, March 23, 1997.

--------. 1999. Kenneth S. Norris, Naturalist, Cetologist and Conservationist, 1924-1998: An Oral History Biography. University of California, Santa Cruz. 344 pp.

--------. 2010. Mountain Time — Reflections on the Natural World and Our Place in It. Lulu Press, . 360 pp.

Organization of Biological Field Stations,

Partnership for Indisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans.

Santa Cruz Island Foundation. 2011. Oral History with Lyndal Laughrin, Channel Islands National Park, Santa Cruz Island Foundation, Santa Barbara, May 2011.

Smith, M. L. 1987. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. Yale University Press, New Haven. 243 pp.

Sproul, R. G. to Mrs. Russell P. Hastings, 5 September 1956. University Archives, University of California, Berkeley. CU-5, Series 3, Box 15, Folder 7.

Star, S. L., and J. Griesemer. 1989. Institutional ecology, ‘translations’ and boundary objects: Amateurs and professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Social Studies of Science 19: 387-420.

Stegner, W. 1992. The Sense of Place. Random House, Inc., New York.

Suttle, K. B., M. A. Thomsen, and M. E. Power. 2007. Species Interactions reverse grassland responses to changing climate. Science 315: 640-642.

Trenham, P. C. and H. B. Shaffer. 2005. Amphibian upland habitat use and its consequences for population viability. Ecological Applications 15: 1158-1168.

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, “California,”

University of California. 1965. Regents Committee on Educational Policy recommendation, approved and adopted by The Board of Regents on January 22, 1965.

University of California, Natural Land and Water Reserves System. 1978. Systemwide Academic. November 14,1978.

University of California, Natural Reserve System,

--------. 1985. Natural Reserve System. The First Twenty Years. University of California. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA. 24 pp.

--------. 1999. Reserve Use Guildelines. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA.

--------. 2003. Acquisition Guidelines. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland.

--------. 2004. Administrative Handbook. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland.

--------. 2008. Special Research Projects: National Centers and Other Landscape-Scale Projects that Utilize NRS Reserves. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA. 19 pp.

--------. 2009. UC Courses Hosted by UC Natural Reserves. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA. 39 pp.

University of California, Oral History Program. 1982. Among the Plants of the Earth, Transcript 1978-1979. Mildred Ester Mathias; Harlan Lewis, Mary Terrall. University of California, Los Angeles.

University of California, Santa Cruz, “Natural History Field Quarter Information and Application,”

Wikipedia, “List of U.S. National Forests,”

Wu, D., P. Gupta, and P. Mohapatral. 2007. Quail Ridge Reserve Wireless Mesh Network: Experiences, challenges, and findings. International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Network and Communication (TridentCom) 2007: 1-6.

Wu, D., and P. Mohapatra. 2011. QuRiNet: a wide-area wireless mesh testbed for research and experimental evaluations. Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) 2010: 1-10.

Part II: Reserves

Heath and Marjorie Angelo Coast Reserve

Bastow, J. L., J. L. Sabo, J. C. Finlay, and M. E. Power. 2002. A basal aquatic-terrestrial trophic link in rivers: algal subsidies via shore-dwelling grasshoppers. Oecologia 131: 261-268. 

Bergey, E. A., C. A. Boettiger, and V. H. Resh. 1995. Effects of water velocity on the architecture and epiphytes of Cladophora glomerata Chlorophyta. Journal of Phycology 31: 264-271.

Berlow, E. L., S. A. Navarrete, M. E. Power, B. A. Menge, and C. Briggs. 1999. Quantifying variation in the strengths of species interactions. Ecology 80: 2206-2224.

Estes, J. A., J. Terborgh, J. S. Brashares, M. E. Power, J. Berger, W. J. Bond, S. R. Carpenter, T. E. Essington, R. D. Holt, J. B. C. Jackson, R. J. Marquis, L. Oksanen, T. Oksanen, R. T. Paine, E. K. Pikitch, W. J. Ripple, S. A. Sandin, M. Scheffer, T. W. Schoener, J. B. Shurin, A. R. E. Sinclair, M. E. Soulé, R. Virtanen, and D. A. Wardle. 2011. Trophic downgrading of planet earth. Science 333: 301-306.

Finlay, J. C., S. Khandwala, and M.E. Power. 2002. Spatial scales of carbon flow in a river food web. Ecology 83: 1845-1859. 

Herring, M. 1987. Heath and Marjorie Angelo Coast Range Reserve. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA. 8 pp.

Hill, W. R., and A. W. Knight. 1987. Experimental analysis of the grazing interaction between a mayfly and stream algae. Ecology 68: 1955-1965.

Hunter, J. C., and M. G. Barbour. 2001. Through-growth by Pseudotsuga menziesii: A mechanism for change in forest composition without canopy gaps. Journal Vegetation Science 12: 445-452.

Kotanen, P. M. 1997. Effects of experimental soil disturbance on revegetation by natives and exotics in coastal Californian meadows. Journal of Applied Ecology 34: 631-644.

Levine, J. M., and C. M. D'Antonio. 1999. Elton revisited: a review of evidence linking diversity and invasibility. Oikos 87: 15-26.

Lowe, W. H., G. E. Likens, and M. E. Power. 2006. Linking scales in stream ecology. BioScience 56: 591-597.

McClure, M. M., S. M. Carlson, T. J. Beechie, G. R. Pess, J. C. Jorgensen, S. M. Sogard, S. E. Sultan, D. M. Holzer, J. Travis, B. J. Sanderson, M. E. Power, and R. W. Carmichael. Evolutionary consequences of habitat loss for Pacific anadromous salmonids. 2008. Evolutionary Applications 1: 300-318.

McNeely, C., and M. E. Power. 2007. Spatial variation in caddisfly grazing regimes within a northern California watershed. Ecology 88: 2609-2619.

Power, M. E. 1990. Effects of fish in river food webs. Science 250: 411-415.

--------. 1992. Top down and bottom up forces in food webs: do plants have primacy? Ecology 73: 733-746.

--------. 2006. Environmental controls on food web regimes: a fluvial perspective. Progress in Oceanography 68: 125-133.

Power, M. E., N. Brozovic, C. Bode, and D. Zilberman. 2005. Spatially explicit tools for understanding and sustaining inland water ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 47-55.

Power, M. E., and W. E. Dietrich. 2002. Food webs in river networks. Ecological Research 17: 451-471.

Power, M. E., R. Lowe, P. C. Furey, J. Welter, M. Limm, C. Bode, S. Chang, M. Goodrich, and J. Sculley. 2009. Algal mats and insect emergence in rivers under Mediterranean climates: Toward photogrammetic surveillance. Freshwater Biology doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02163x.

Power, M. E., J. C. Marks, and M. S. Parker. 1992. Variation in the vulnerability of prey to different predators: Community-level consequences. Ecology 73: 2218-2223.

Power, M.E., M. S. Parker, and W. E. Dietrich. 2008. Seasonal reassembly of river food webs under a Mediterranean hydrologic regime: Floods, droughts, and impacts of fish. Ecological Monographs 78: 263-282.

Sabo, J. L., and M. E. Power. 2002. Numerical response of riparian lizards to aquatic insects and the short-term consequences for alternate terrestrial prey. Ecology 83: 3023-3036. 

Siedl, M. A., and W. E. Dietrich. 1992. The problem of channel erosion into bedrock. Catena Supplement 23: 101-124.

Sklar, L., and W. E. Dietrich. 1998. River longitudinal profiles and bedrock incision models: stream power and the influence of sediment supply. Geophysical Monograph 107: 237-260.

Strayer, D. S., M. E. Power, W. F. Fagan, S. T. A. Pickett, and J. Belnap. 2003. A classification of ecological boundaries. BioScience 53: 723-729. 

Suttle, K. B., M. E. Power, J. M. Levine, and C. McNeely. 2004. How fine sediment in riverbeds impairs growth and survival of juvenile salmonids. Ecological Applications 14: 969-974.

University of California, Natural Reserve System, Angelo Reserve, .

Wootton, J. T., M. S. Parker, and M.E. Power. 1996. The effect of disturbance on river food webs. Science 273: 1558-1560.

Wootton, J. T., and M. E. Power. 1993. Productivity, consumers, and the structure of a river food chain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90: 1384-1387.

Año Nuevo Island Reserve

Andrews, R.D., D. R. Jones, J. D. Williams, P. H. Thorson, G. W. Oliver, D. P. Costa, and B. L. LeBoeuf. 1997. Heart rates of northern elephant seals diving at sea and resting on the beach. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 2083-2095.

Block, B.A., I. D., Jonsen, S. J. Jorgensen, A. J. Winship, S. A. Shaffer, S. J. Bograd, E. L. Hazen, D. G. Foley, G. A. Breed, A-L. Harrison, J. E. Ganong, A. Swithenbank, M. Castleton, H. Dewar, B. R. Mate, and D. P. Costa. 2011. Tagging of pacific predators: Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic ocean. Nature 475: 86-90.

Boehlert, G. W., D. P. Costa, D. E. Crocker, P. Green, T. O'Brien, S. Levitus, and B. J. Le Boeuf. 2010. Autonomous pinniped environmental samplers: Using instrumented animals as oceanographic data collectors. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 18: 1882-1893.

California State Parks, “Año Nuevo State Park,”

Costa, D. P. How Electronic Tags Are Helping to Understand the Movements, Behavior and Habitats of Marine Vertebrates. Online publication Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS).

--------. 2009. Osmoregulation. In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. 2nd Edition, W.F. Perrin, J.G.M. Thewissen, and B. Wursig, (eds.), pp. 791-796. Academic Press, New York.

Costa, D. P., D. E. Crocker, J. Gedamke, P. M. Webb, D. S. Houser, S. B. Blackwell, D. Waples, S. A. Hayes, and B. J. LeBoeuf. 2003. The effect of a low-frequency sound source (acoustic thermometry of the ocean climate) on the diving behavior of juvenile northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113: 1155-1165.

Costa, D. P., L. A. Huckstadt, D. E. Crocker, B. I. McDonald, M. E. Goebel, and M. A. Fedak. 2010. Approaches to studying climatic change and its role on the habitat selection of Antarctic pinnipeds. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 1018-1030.

Crocker, D. E., D. P. Costa, B. J. Le Boeuf, P. M. Webb, and D. S. Houser. 2006. Impact of El Niño on the foraging behavior of female northern elephant seals. Marine Ecology Progress Series 309: 1-10.

Crocker, D. E., B. J. LeBoeuf, and D. P. Costa. 1997. Drift diving in female northern elephant seals: Implications for food processing. Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 27-39.

Crocker, D. E., J. D. Williams, D. P. Costa, and B. J. LeBoeuf. 2001. The effects of maternal mass, body composition, and age on reproductive effort in northern elephant seals. Ecology 82: 3541-3555.

Graham, B. S., P. L. Koch, S. D. Newsome, K. W. McMahon, and D. Aurioles. 2010. Using isoscapes to trace the movements and foraging behavior of top predators in oceanic ecosystems. In Understanding Movement, Pattern, and Process on earth Through Isotope Mapping, J. B. West, G. J. Bowen, T. E. Dawson, and K. P. Tu (eds), 299-318. Springer Science + Business Media, New York.

Hassrick, J. L., D. E. Crocker, N. M. Teutschel, B. I. McDonald, P. W. Robinson, S. E. Simmons, and D. P. Costa. 2010. Age and mass impact oxygen stores and dive duration in adult female northern elephant seals. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 585-592.

Herring, M. 1987. Año Nuevo Island Reserve. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA. 8 pp.

Hoelzel, A. R., B .J. Le Boeuf, J. Reiter, and C. Campagna. 1999. Alpha male paternity in elephant seals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46: 298-306.

Hoelzel, A.R., R.C. Fleischer, C. Campagna, B. Le Boeuf, and G. Alvord. 2002. Impact of a population bottleneck on symmetry and genetic diversity in the northern elephant seal. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 567-575

Holt, M. M., B. L. Southall, S. J. Insley, and R. J. Schusterman. 2010. Call directionality and its behavioural significance in male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris. Animal Behaviour 80: 351-361.

Klimley, A. P., B. J. Le Boeuf, K. M. Cantara, J. E. Richert, S. F. Davis, S. Van Sommeran, and J. T. Kelly. 2001. The hunting strategy of white sharks at a pinniped colony. Marine Biology 13: 617-636.

Kuhn, C. E., D. E. Crocker, Y. Tremblay, and D. P. Costa. 2008. Time to eat: Measuring at-sea feeding behavior of a large marine predator, the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Journal of Animal Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01509.x.

Le Boeuf, B. J., D. E. Crocker, D. P. Costa, S. B. Blackwell, P. M. Webb, and D. S. Houser. 2000. Foraging ecology of northern elephant seals. Ecological Monographs 70: 353-382.

Lester, C. W, and D. P. Costa. 2006. Water conservation in fasting northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 4283-4294.

Mitani, Y., R. Andrews, K. Sato, A. Kato, Y. Naito, and D. P. Costa. 2010. 3D resting behaviour of northern elephant seals: drifting like a falling leaf. Biology Letters 6: 163-166.

Meir, J. U., C. D. Champagne, D. P. Costa, C. L. Williams, and P. J. Ponganis. 2009. Extreme hypoxemic tolerance and blood oxygen depletion in diving elephant seals. American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 297: R927 –R939, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00247.2009

Padman, L., D. P. Costa, S. T. Bolmer, M. E. Goebel, L. A. Huckstadt, A. Jenkins, B. I. McDonald, and D. R. Shoosmith. 2010. Seals map bathymetry of the Antarctic continental shelf. Geophysical Research Letters 37, L21601, doi:10.1029/2010GL044921

Radford, K.W., R.T. Orr, C.L. Hubbs. 1965. Reestablishment of the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) off central California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 31:601-612.

Rea, L., and D. P. Costa. 1992. Changes in standard metabolism during long-term fasting in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris). Physiological Zoology 65: 97-111.

Rick, T. C., R. L. DeLong, J. M. Erlandon, T. J. Braje, T. L. Jones, J. E. Arnold, M. R. Des Lauriers, W. R. Hildebrandt, D. J. Kennett, R. L. Vellanoweth, and T. A. Wake. 2011. Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustrirostris. Holocene 21: 1159-1166.

Robinson, P.W., S. E. Simmons, D. E. Crocker, and D. P. Costa. 2010. Measurements of foraging success in a highly pelagic marine predator, the northern elephant seal. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 1146–1156

Simmons, S. E., D. E. Crocker, J. L. Hassrick, C. E. Kuhn, P. W. Robinson, Y. Tremblay, and D. P. Costa. 2010. Climate-scale hydrographic features related to foraging success in a capital breeder, the northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris. Endangered Species Research 10: 233-243.

Thayer, J. A., M. M. Hester, and W. J. Sydeman. 2000. Conservation biology of Rhinoceros Aukleets, Cerorhinca monocerata, on Año Nuevo Island, California, 1993-1999. Endangered Species Update 17: 62-67

Thornton, S. J., D. M. Speilman, N. J. Pelc, W. F. Block, D. E. Crocker, D. P. Costa, B. J. Le Boeuf, and P. W. Hochachka. 2001. Effects of forced diving on the spleen and hepatic sinus in northern elephant seal pups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98: 9413-9418.

U.S. Geological Survey. 1996. National Water Summary on Wetland Resources. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2425.

Weise, M. J., J. T. Harvey, and D. P. Costa. 2010. The role of body size on the foraging behavior of an apex predator, the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus. Ecology: 91: 1004–1015.

Williams, T. M., R. W. Davis, L. A. Fuiman, J. Francis, B. J. Le Boeuf, M. Hornin, J. Calambokidis, and D. Croll. 2000. Sink or swim: Strategies of cost-efficient diving by marine mammals. Science 288: 133-136.

Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

Bainbridge, S., and T. Kan. 1997. Botanical survey of the Blue Oak Ranch, Santa Clara County, California.

Benson, B. J., B. J. Bond, M. P. Hamilton, R. K. Monson, and R. Han. 2010. Perspectives on next generation technology for environmental sensor networks. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 193–200.

Fry, D. L. 2008. Prescribed fire effects on deciduous oak woodland stand structure, northern Diablo Range, California. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61: 294-301.

Huck, K. L. 2010. Reproductive den habitat characterization of American badgers (Taxidea taxus) in Central California. Master’s Thesis, San José State University, San Jose, CA.

Stumpf, U. E. 2010. Influence of slope position and mistletoe infestation on water relations of oak trees (Quercus lobata (Nee.)) measured by traditional methods in comparison to aerial SAVI images. Thesis, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany.

University of California, Natural Reserve System, “Blue Oak Ranch Reserve,”

Wilcox, J. T., and D. H. Van Vuren. 2009. Wild pigs as predators in oak woodlands of California. Journal of Mammalogy 90: 114–118.

Wilcox, J. T. 2010. Actinemys marmorata western pond turtle predation. Herpetological Review 41: 212.

Bodega Marine Reserve

Alpert, P., and J. L. Maron. 2000. Carbon addition as a counter-measure against biological invasion by plants. Biological Invasions 2: 33-40.

Danin, A., S. Raie, M. Barbour, N. Jurjavcic, P. Connors, and E. Uhlinger. 1998. Early primary succession on dunes at Bodega Head, California. Madroño 45: 101-109.

Dawson, M. N., R. K. Grosberg, Y. E. Stuart, and E. Sanford 2010. Population genetic analysis of a recent range expansion: mechanisms regulating the poleward range limit in the volcano barnacle Tetraclita rubescens. Molecular Ecology 19: 1585-1605.

Ferber, M. C., and B. Gaylord. 2008. Flexibility foils filter function: structural limitations on suspension feeding. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3563-3572.

Goodson J. L., and A. H. Bass. 2000. Forebrain peptides modulate sexually polymorphic vocal circuitry. Nature 403: 769-772.

Grosberg, R. K., and D. J. Ayre. 1997. Is there a relationship between multilocus homozygosity and dominance rank in sea anemones? American Naturalist 149: 790-793.

Hastings, A., and L. W. Botsford. 1999. Equivalence in yield from marine reserves and traditional fisheries management. Science 284: 1537-1538.

Herring, M. 1987. Bodega Marine Reserve. University of California Natural Reserve System, Oakland, CA. 8 pp.

Hughes, A. R., R. J. Best, and J. J. Stachowicz. 2010. Genotypic diversity and grazer identity interactively influence seagrass and grazer biomass. Marine Ecology Progress Series 403: 43-51.

Karban, R., and P. de Valpine. 2010. Population dynamics of an Arctiid caterpillar-tachinid parasitoid system using state-space models. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 650-661.

Knapp, E. E., and P. G. Connors. 1999. Genetic consequences of a single-founder population bottleneck in Trifolium amoenum (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany 86: 124-130.

Maron J. L., and R. L. Jefferies, 1999 Bush lupine mortality, altered resource availability, and alternative vegetation states. Ecology 80: 443-454.

Marvier, M. A. 1998. Parasite impacts on host communities: plant parasitism in a California coastal prairie. Ecology 79: 2616-2623.

Miller, W. B., and A. E. Weis. 1999. Adaptation of coyote brush to the abiotic environment and its effects on susceptibility to a gall-making midge. Oikos 84: 199-208.

Morgan, S. G., J. L. Fisher, S. H. Miller, S. T. McAfee, and J. L. Largier. 2009. Nearshore larval retention in a region of strong upwelling and recruitment limitation. Ecology 90: 3489-3502.

Pincebourde, S., E. Sanford, and B. Helmuth. 2009. An intertidal sea star adjusts thermal inertia to avoid extreme body temperatures. American Naturalist 174: 890-897.

Ruiz, G. M., P. Fofonoff, A. H. Hines, and E. D. Grosholz. 1999. Nonindigenous species as stressors in estuarine and marine communities: assessing invasion impacts and interactions. Limnology and Oceanography 44: 950-972.

Sanford, E., and D. J. Worth. 2009. Genetic differences among populations of a marine snail drive geographic variation in predation. Ecology 90: 3108-3118.

Strauss, S. Y., D. Siemens, M. B. Decher, and T. Mitchell-Olds. 1999. Ecological costs of resistance to herbivores in the currency of pollination. Evolution 53: 1105-1113.

Strong, D. R., and R. Pemberton. 2000. Biological control of invading species – risk and reform. Science 288: 1969-1970.

University of California, Natural Reserve System, “Bodega Marine Reserve,”

Vila, M., and C. M. D'Antonio. 1998. Fruit choice and seed dispersal of invasive vs. noninvasive Carpobrotus (Aizoaceae) in coastal California. Ecology 79: 1053-1060.

Waycott, M., C. M. Duarte, T. J. B. Carruthers, R. J. Orth, W. C. Dennison, S. Olyarnik, A. Calladine, J. W. Fourqurean, K. L. Heck, A. R. Hughes, G. A. Kendrick, W. J. Kenworthy, F. T. Short, and S. L. Williams. 2009. Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 12377-12381.

White, J. W., L. W. Botsford, A. Hastings, and J. L. Largier. 2010. Population persistence in marine reserve networks: incorporating spatial heterogeneities in larval dispersal. Marine Ecology Progress Series 298: 49-67.

Wing, S. R., and M. R. Patterson. 1993. Effects of wave-induced lightflecks in the intertidal zone on photosynthesis in the macroalgae Postelsia palmaeformis and Hedophyllum sessile (Phaeophyceae). Marine Biology 116: 519-525.

Box Springs Reserve

Anonymous. 1961. Mimeo entitled “Excerpts from Application for Land for Recreation or Public Purposes, 1961.” Box Springs, NRS project files, Oakland.

Fenn, M. E., J. S. Baron, E. B. Allen, H. M. Rueth, K. R. Nydick, L. Geiser, W. D. Bowman, J. O. Sickman, T. Meixner, D. W. Johnson, and P. Neitlich. 2003. Ecological effects of nitrogen deposition in the Western United States. BioScience 53: 404-420.

Rao, L. E., and E. B. Allen. 2010. Nitrogen mineralization across an atmospheric nitrogen deposition gradient in southern California deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 73: 920-930.

University of California, Natural Reserve System, “Box Springs Reserve,”

Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center

Alberts, A. C. 1992. Density-dependent scent gland activity in desert iguanas. Animal Behavior 44: 774-776.

Bealor, M. T., and C. O. N. Krekorian. 2002. Chemosensory identification of lizard-eating snakes in the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis (Squamata: Iguanidae). Journal of Herpetology 36: 9-15.

Chappell, M. 1984.Temperature regulation and energetics of the solitary bee Centris pallida during foraging and intermale mate competition. Physiological Zoology 57: 215-225.

Miyoko, C. 2001. Heterospecific responses to scream calls and vocal mimicry by Phainopeplas (Phainopepla nitens) in distress. Behaviour 138: 775-787.

Clark, C. J., and T. J. Feo. 2010. Why do Calypte hummingbirds “sing” with both their tail and their syrinx? An apparent example of a sexual sensory bias. American Naturalist 175: 27-37.

Crosbie, P. R., W. L. Goff, D. Stiller, D. A. Jessup, and W. M. Boyce. 1997. The distribution of Dermacentor hunteri and Anaplasma sp. in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). Journal of Parasitology 83: 31-37.

Durtsche, R. D. 1995. Foraging ecology of the fringe-toed lizard, Uma inornata, during periods of high and low food abundance. Copeia 1995: 915-926.

Fuller, P. J., and M. E. Hay. 1983. Is glue production by seeds of Salvia columbariae a deterrent to desert granivores? Ecology 64: 960-963.

Gee, J. M. 2003. How a hybrid zone is maintained: behavioral mechanisms of interbreeding between California and Gambel's quail (Callipepla californica and C. gambelii). Evolution 57: 2407-2415.

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Ernst, W. G. 1992. Post-Archean crustal evolution, terrane accretion, and metamorphism of the western Cordillera, with emphasis on northern and central California. In Basement Tectonics 8: Characterization and Comparison of Ancient and Mesozoic Continental Margins: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, M.J. Bartholomew, D.W. Hyndman, D.W. Mogk, and R. Mason (eds.), R 151-175. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Berlin. Gary Ernst worked at White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] and published many significant geoscience articles during four decades at the facility. He was the 2004 recipient of the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America.

Frank, C. L., E. S. Dierenfeld, and K. B. Storey. 1998. The relationship between lipid peroxidation, hibernation, and food selection in mammals. American Zoologist 38: 341-349. This long-running study of golden-mantled ground squirrel hibernation physiology uses telemetry to measure underground conditions.

Glazner, A. F., J. M. Bartley, D. S. Coleman, W. Gray, and R.Z. Taylor. 2004. Are plutons assembled over millions of years by amalgamation from small magma chambers? GSA Today 14: 4-11. An on-going active research program examining the development of mountains such as the Sierra Nevada.

Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA),

Grubisic, V., J. D. Doyle, J. Kuettner, S. Mobbs, R. B. Smith, C. D. Whiteman, R. Dirks, S. Czyzyk, S. A. Cohn, S. Vosper, M. Weissman, S. Haimov, S. F.J. De Wekker, L. L. Pan, and F. K. Chow. 2008. The terrain-induced rotor experiment: a field campaign overview including observational highlights. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 89:1513-1533. White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] sometimes hosts large field expeditions, in this case, serving as the command center for three aircraft in this National Science Foundation-funded effort to understand mountain-induced airflows.

Hall, C. A. Jr. (ed.) 1991. Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley. 536 pp.

Hall, C. A., Jr., and N. Pace. 1994. History of the White Mountain Research Station and the Crooked Creek facilities. In The Crooked Creek Guidebook, C. A. Hall, Jr. and B. Widawski (eds.), 1-8. University of California, Los Angeles.

Hall, C. A., Jr., and N. Pace. 1973. A history. In 25 Years of High-Altitude Research, White Mountain Research Station, Hall, C. A., Jr., and N. Pace (eds.) 1-8. University of California White Mountain Research Station, Bishop.

Hall, L. S. and M. L. Morrison. 1994. Natural history of vertebrate animals of the Crooked Creek area, White Mountains, California. In The Crooked Creek Guidebook, C. A. Hall, Jr. and B. Widawski (eds.), 106-110. University of California, Los Angeles.

Hall, C. A., Jr. and B. Widawski. 1994. The Crooked Creek Guidebook. University of California, Los Angeles. 132 pp.

Holmquist J. G., J. Schmidt-Gengenbach, and S. A. Haultain. 2010. Does long-term grazing by pack stock in subalpine meadows result in lasting effects on arthropod assemblages? Wetlands 30: 252-262. White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] research scientist Jeff Holmquist contracts with National Park Service to study communities and conservation ecology in the area.

Jayko, A. S. 2009. Deformation of the Late Miocene to Pliocene Inyo Surface, eastern Sierra region. In Late Cenozoic Structure and evolution of the Great Basin-Sierra Nevada, J.Oldow, P. Cashman (eds.), 313-350. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 447, Boulder. Dramatic and diverse geology and the sparse vegetation facilitate studies of surface processes.

LaMarche Jr., V. C. 1984. Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide: tree ring evidence for growth enhancement in natural vegetation. Science 225: 1019-1021. LaMarche used White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] meteorological data to make one of the first arguments that atmospheric CO2 build-up explains recent increases in bristlecone ring width.

Lloyd, R. M., and R. S. Mitchell. A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada. University of California Press, Berkeley. 202 pp.

Meinhold, P. R., M. Bersanelli, J. Childers, N. Figueiredo, T. C. Gaier, D. Haveli, G. G. Huey, M. Kangas, C. R. Lawrence, A. Levy, P. M. Lubin, M. Malaspina, N. Mandolesi, J. Marvil, J. Mejía, P. Natoli, I. O’Dwyer, H. O’Neill, S. Parendo, A. Pina, M. D. Seiffert, N. C. Stebor, C. Tello, F. Villa, T. Villela, L. A. Wade, B. D. Wandelt, B. Williams, and C. A. Wuensche. 2005. A Map of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the BEAST Experiment. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 158: 101-108. The astrophysics research program continues to the present day under the leadership of UCSB Professor Philip Lubin.

Pace, N., D. F. Rahlmann, A. M. Kodama, R. C. Mains, and B. W.Grunbaum. 1974. A monkey metabolism pod for space flight weightlessness studies. Life Sciences and Space Research 12: 149-157. In the 1970s, White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] received major support from NASA for preparing monkeys for space flights.

Powell, F. L., H. Shams, S. C. Hempleman, and G. S. Mitchell. 2004. Breathing in thin air: Acclimatization to altitude in ducks. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 144: 225-235. White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] started as a place to study high altitude physiology, and this is only one of many articles on that subject in the reserve’s publication list.

Rundel, P. W., E. A. Graham, M. F. Allen, J. C. Fisher, and T. C. Harmon. 2009. Environmental sensor networks in ecological research. New Phytologist 182: 589–607. White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] has a long history as a site for testing new technologies, in this case, environmental sensor networks.

Scherer, H. H., W.G . Ernst, and R. B. Hanson. 2008. Geologic implications of new zircon U-Pb ages from the White Mountain Peak metavolcanic complex, eastern California. Tectonics 27, TC2002, doi:10.1029/2007TC002141. A detailed look at the geology of White Mountain Peak using new dating techniques.

Schulman, E. 1954. Longevity under adversity in conifers. Science 119: 396-399. Edmund Schulman documented the great longevity of bristlecone pines in the White Mountains and called attention to their value for the study of climatology.

Severinghaus, J. W., R. A. Mitchell, B. W. Richardson, and M. M Singer. 1963. Respiratory control at high altitude suggesting active transport regulation of CSF pH. Journal of Applied Physiology 18: 1155-1166. John Severinghaus and colleagues published many landmark articles on the physiology of breathing.

Smoot, G. F., III. 2007. Nobel Lecture: Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropies: Their discovery and utilization. Reviews of Modern Physics 79: 1349-1379. George Smoot’s decade of work at White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] is one of the high points of a more than 60-year tradition of astrophysics research.

Van de Ven, C., S. B. Weiss, and W. G. Ernst. 2007. Plant species distributions under present conditions and forecasted for warmer climates in an arid mountain range. Earth Interactions 11: 1-33. This long-running project includes remote sensing, on-the-ground measurements of vegetation and microclimate, and modeling climate change effects.

Wehausen, J. D. 1996. Effects of mountain lion predation on bighorn sheep in the Sierra Nevada and Granite Mountains of California. Wildlife Society Bulletin 24: 471-79.

Wehausen, J. D. 1999. Rapid extinction of mountain sheep revisited. Conservation Biology 13: 378-384. White Mountain Research Station [now White Mountain Reserve] research scientist John Wehausen, an acknowledged authority on Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, has worked for decades to understand the conservation biology and genetics of these endangered vertebrates.

Wilkinson, D. T. 1967. Measurement of the cosmic microwave background at 8.56-mm wavelength. Physical Review Letters 19: 1195-1198. Right after the discovery of the “cosmic fireball” (i.e., “big bang”), astrophysicists flocked to Barcroft Field Station to make more accurate measurements.

Yilmaz C., D. M. Dane, and C. C. W. Hsia. 2007. Alveolar diffusion-perfusion interactions during high altitude residence in guinea pigs. Journal of Applied Physiology 102: 2179-2185. Effects of long-term hypoxia on lung development in guinea pigs raised at Barcroft Field Station.

Younger Lagoon Reserve

Weiner, R., and K. S. Norris. 1983. A Plan for a Natural Areas Reserve on the UC Santa Cruz Campus. Publication No. 12, Environmental Field Program, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Brown, M., and K. S. Norris. Campus Natural Reserve Committee. 1986. Academic Plan for the Campus Natural Areas Reserve, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Murphey, P. G. 1978. Collisella austrodigitalis sp nov.: A sibling species of limpet (Acmaeidae) discovered by electrophoresis. Biological Bulletin 155: 193-206.

Prest, H. F., and L. A. Jacobson. 1995. Passive sampling of water and coastal air via semipermeable membrane devices. Chemosphere 30: 1351-1361

Part III: Future Directions for the UC Natural Reserve System

Ackerly, D. D., S. R. Loarie, W. K. Cornwell, S. B. Weiss, H. Hamilton, R. Branciforte, and N. J. B. Kraft. 2010. The geography of climate change: Implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions 16: 476-487.

Adventure•Risk•Challenge (ARC), home/html

Bowen, G. M. and W-M. Roth. 2007. The practice of field ecology: Insights for science education. Research in Science Education 37: 171-187.

[State of] California, “Department of Finance,” demographic/reports/projections/p-1/

Dallman, P. R. 1998. Plant Life in the World’s Mediterranean Climates. California Native Plant Society and University of California Press, Sacramento and Berkeley. 257 pp.

Dayton, P.K. 2003. The importance of the natural sciences to conservation. The American Naturalist 162: 1-13.

Kraft, N. J. B., B. G. Baldwin, and D. D. Ackerly. 2010. Range size, taxon age and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora. Diversity and Distributions 16: 403-413.

International Union for the Conservation of Nature, “Commission on Ecosystem Management,” about/union/commissions/ cem/cem_about/.

Leache, Adam L., Der-Shing A. Helmer, Craig Moritz. 2010. Phenotypic evolution in high-elevation populations of western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 100: 630-641

Loarie, S. R., B. E. Carter, K. Hayhoe, S. McMahon, R. Moe, C. A. Knight, and D. D. Ackerly. 2008. Climate change and the future of California’s endemic flora. PLoS ONE 3 e2502, 18 pp.

Mathias, M. 1973. The value of natural areas. Fremontia 1: 3-6.

Moritz, C., J. Patton, C. Conroy, J. Parra, G. White, and S. Beissinger 2008. Impact of a century of climate change on small-mammal communities in Yosemite National Park, USA. Science 322: 261-264.

National Ecological Observatory Network,

Norris. K. S. 2010. Mountain Time — Reflections on the Natural World and Our Place in It. Lulu Press, . 360 pp.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, “Millienium Seed Bank,”

Rubidge, E. M., Monahan, W. B., Parra, J. L., Cameron, S. E. and Brashares, J. S. 2011. The role of climate, habitat, and species co-occurrence as drivers of change in small mammal distributions over the past century. Global Change Biology 17: 696-708.

Sagehen Creek Field Station website

State of California, “Governor’s home page,”

Tingley, M.W., W.B. Monahan, S.R. Beissinger, and C. Moritz. 2009. Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 106 (suppl. 2): 19637-19643.

Tingley, M.W., and S.R. Beissinger. 2009. Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 625-633.

University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, “The Grinnell Resurvey Project”,

University of California Natural Reserve System website

U.S. Bureau of Land Management, “Seeds of Success,” plants/sos/index.htm

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