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| Biosphere Reserve Information | ||||
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CALIFORNIA COAST RANGES |
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| General Description |
Located in the San Francisco Bay area, this biosphere reserve includes a highly diverse complex of evergreen sclerophyllous woodland, coastal, estuary and marine ecosystems. San Francisco is a focal point for coastal industry and trade. Tourism, some agriculture and fisheries, transportation, manufacturing, military installations, and research and educational institutions are also important to the regional economy. The primary aim of the biosphere reserve is to develop a commitment to ecosystem management among the various management agencies. Given the intense human pressure of the area, the conservation of biodiversity is very challenging. Of particular concern is to raise environmental awareness among the diverse urban communities. |
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| Major ecosystem type | Temperate rainforest | |||
| Major habitats & land cover types |
(At Angelo Reserve) Mixed forests (including mixed evergreen, California bay, tan oak, madrone, upland redwood, upland Douglas-fir, Pacific yew, and knobcone pine); woodlands (including Oregon oak, black oak, interior live oak, and mixed north-slope cismontane); mixed chaparral (including chamise, montane manzanita, whitethorn, tobacco brush, buck brush, interior live oak, and north-slope chaparral); bald hills prairie; grassland; freshwater seep; coastal winter steelhead trout stream; coastal salmon stream (At Big Creek Reserve) Coastal strand; coastal bluff scrub; coastal scrub; ceanothus shrub; sage scrub; rocky scrubland; chamise chaparral; coast range and streambank woodland; stream-mouth woodland; sycamore-draw woodland; coast live oak forest; mixed hardwood-coast live oak forest; mixed hardwood-canyon live oak forest; Ponderosa pine-Hoover's manzanita woodland; Ponderosa pine-mixed hardwood-coast live oak forest; Ponderosa pine-mixed hardwood-canyon live oak forest; Ponderosa pine-coast live oak forest; coulter pine forest; Santa Lucia-fir woodland; redwood streamside forest; redwood-mixed hardwood forest; pure redwood forest; aquatic (both freshwater and marine) habitats |
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| Location | 39°45'N; 123°58'W; 41°30'N; 124°00'W; 36°N; 121°31'W; 36°N; 121°37'W | |||
| Area (hectares) | ||||
| Total | 62,098 | |||
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| Transition area(s) when given | ||||
| Altitude (metres above sea level) | 0 to +1,571 | |||
| Year designated | 1983 | |||
| Administrative authorities | University of California Natural Reserve System | |||
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| Brief description |
Archaeology Biological surveys and collections Comparative ecology Downcutting response Ecosystem restoration Ethnobiology Food webs Invasive species Geology Intertidal and subtidal communities Invertebrate biodiversity Landscape-scale monitoring Leaf packs Listed species Marine fish populations Redwood biogeography Sedimentation Succession Watershed studies Wildlife population dynamics |
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| Specific variables... | ||||
| Abiotic | Geology, siltation/sedimentation, soil. | |||
| Biodiversity | Alien/Invasive/Exotic/Introduced species, biodiversity, biogeography, biology, coastal/marine, ecology, fishes, invertebrates/insects/spiders, phytosociology/succession, population genetics/population dynamics, restoration/rehabilitation/redevelopment, species inventorying/inventory, wildlife. | |||
| Socio-economic | Archaeology/Paleontology, traditional practices/ethnology/traditional knowledge. | |||
| Integrated monitoring | Impact and risk studies/Environmental impact, landscape inventorying/monitoring, watershed studies/monitoring. | |||
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| Contact address |
Alexander Glazer University of California 1111 Franklin Street, 6th Floor 94607-5200 Oakland, California United States of America |
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| Telephone | (1.510) 987 0150 | |||
| Fax | (1.510) 763 2971 | |||
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alexander.glazer@ucop.edu |
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| Web site | nrs.ucop.edu | |||
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| Last updated: 23/04/2002 |
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