Chaparral Management Effects on Water and the Environment

摘要

The document is a summary of a detailed survey of the literature on shrublands in California. It summarizes the results of a multi-disciplinary project to define what is currently known about shrubland vegetation management and what additional research is needed to properly assess the social and environmental effects of such management. Fire is the most important management tool, and therefore receives the most emphasis in the publication. A general treatment of management procedures and a description of the biogeography and prehistory of shrublands are presented in the initial chapters. The effects of shrubland management (primarily by fire) are presented next, with chapters on the effects on vegetation, on soils, on water yield and water quality, on streams and on wildlife.