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Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks

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Authors
J. A. Estes, G.R. VanBlaricom

Russelspringer. [Elephant-shrew] Russelspringer. [Elephant-shrew]

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Authors
G. B. Rathbun, R. Fons

Soils and vegetation of Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Park, CA Soils and vegetation of Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Park, CA

The multifaceted development of an erosion surface on Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, has led to this study of the relationship between soils and vegetation. A dry Mediterranean climate and past attempts at farming and introductions of alien species have led to vegetative degradation accompanied by both gully and surface erosion. Soil and vegetation...
Authors
W. L. Halvorson, D.B. Fenn, W.R. Allardice

Terrestrial Vertebrates Monitoring Handbook Terrestrial Vertebrates Monitoring Handbook

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Authors
Gary M. Fellers, Charles A. Drost, Brian W. Arnold

Memory Memory

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Authors
J. A. Howell

Predation, herbivory and kelp evolution Predation, herbivory and kelp evolution

We propose that the kelps (Laminariales) radiated in the North Pacific following the onset of late Cenozoic polar cooling. The evidence is that (1) extant kelps occur exclusively in cold-water habitats; (2) all but one of 27 kelp genera occur in the North Pacific, 19 of these exclusively; and (3) limpets and herbivorous marine mammals obligately associated with kelps or other stipitate...
Authors
J. A. Estes, P.D. Steinberg
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