Click here to view information regarding the 4th Annual Chaparral Symposium, being held in 2024.
Sponsored by the Santa Monica Mountains Fund, the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region and the California Fire Science Consortium
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View a summary of this workshop from The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America :
Underwood, E. C., J. Franklin, N. A. Molinari, H. D. Safford. 2018. Global Change and the Vulnerability of Chaparral Ecosystems. Bull Ecol Soc Am 99(4):e01460. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1460
When: May 14-16, 2018
Where: Angeles Training and Conference Center, Arcadia, CA
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Presentation resources in order of agenda:
Detecting drought refugia in the chaparral: a case study from the CA Channel Islands − Aaron Ramirez (Reed College)
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Global change and the vulnerability of chaparral shrubs to acute drought versus chronic drought − Stephen Davis (Pepperdine Univ.)
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Chaparral response to heat waves: Extreme heat reduces the carbon gain of chaparral shrubs − Alex Pivovaroff (UCLA)
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Vulnerability of chaparral plant functional types to multiple stressors: climate, fire and land use − Janet Franklin (UC Riverside)
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Making fuels management compatible with restoration objectives in an age of global change- Hugh Safford (UC Davis/USFS)
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
The ever changing role of climate and weather in chaparral fire regimes − Jon Keeley (USGS) & Alexandra Syphard (Conservation Biology Institute)
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Effects of future climate on fire regimes − Max Moritz (UC ANR & UCSB)
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The Santa Monica Mountains Wildland Fire Resilient Landscape Cooperative: Integrating conservation and wildfire risk reduction − Marti Witter (NPS) & Jay Lopez (LA County Fire)
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Environmental correlates with type conversion and what the future holds − Alex Syphard (CBI) Tess Brennan (USGS) & Jon Keeley (USGS)
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Tools for seed sourcing in a changing world − Arlee Montalvo (Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District)
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Implications for chaparral restoration from exotic root-rotting Phytophthora − Katie VinZant (USFS) & Susan Frankel (USFS PSW)
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Challenges of chaparral restoration- can a trait-based approach help? − Carla D’Antonio (UC Santa Barbara)
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Trait based approaches to understanding and maximizing ecosystem resilience − Marko Spasojevic (UC Riverside)
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Estimating recreational use values of shrublands on public lands Frank Lupi (Michigan State University)
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Connecting Californians to the chaparral − Richard Halsey (CA Chaparral Institute)
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
CHAPARRAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (ES) PROJECT
Project overview and mapping of ecosystem services − Hugh Safford (US Forest Service) & Emma Underwood (UC Davis)
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Economic valuation of services − Lorie Srivastava (UC Davis) & Frank Lupi (Michigan State Univ)
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Introduction to ecosystem services tool − Eric Rounds (US Forest Service)
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About this Event:
Chaparral vegetation dominates much of California, and there is growing appreciation of its ecological importance and its role in providing vital ecosystem services. At the same time, chaparral landscapes in California are increasingly under threat from regional and global pressures including rising human populations and expanding cityscapes, warming temperatures and multiyear droughts, air pollution, and progressively more frequent fire. We build on the topics of the first symposium (Chaparral Restoration in 2013) and the second symposium (the Ecological Value of Chaparral in 2015), and this year focus on the ecological vulnerability of chaparral landscapes, and what managers might do to promote chaparral persistence and resilience in the face of environmental change.
The first two days of the symposium (May 14 and May 15) will be dedicated to a set of engaging presentations by regional and national experts on chaparral vulnerability in the context of regional and global environmental threats and related management and scientific topics. The morning of May 16 (Wednesday), a new ecosystem service assessment tool developed by a joint USFS-UC-USGS-Michigan State University team will be presented. The online tool can be used to provide economic values for carbon, surface water runoff and groundwater recharge, sediment retention, recreation, and other services and includes modules to assess the effects of wildfires, climate change, and management actions on these services. The symposium will conclude (May 16 afternoon) with a field trip to a chaparral site in the San Gabriel National Monument.
