Tertiary Vegetation History: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project

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"An important message for ecosystem management from a study of the Tertiary flora of the Sierra Nevada is that, although vegetation has changed drastically over 65 million years, the rate has been very slow. Human impacts in the Sierra are potentially of a similar magnitude to these evolutionary changes but can occur at rates many times faster; such changes may be more rapid than plants are likely able to."

"The most appropriate management action is to maintain diverse, healthy forests with conditions favoring resilience to unpredictable but changing future climates and management regimes. Plans that require landscapes to reach precise vegetation targets are likely to fail. Management programs that build flexibility, reversibility, and alternative pathways are more likely to succeed in an uncertain future."

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http://ceres.ca.gov/snep/pubs/v2s1.html

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Bibliographical Authors:

Millar, Constance I.

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Keywords:
fossil record, macrofossils, microfossils, sierra nevada history, vegetation-historic, vegetation-paleo, oligocene, paleocene, eocene, miocene, pliocene, sierra nevada uplift, fossil deposition, sierra nevada climate, vegetation-miocene, extinctions, vegetation-distribution

Species Common Names:
willow, cottonwood, giant sequoia, red fir, bristlecone pine, foxtail pine, white pine, hemlock, white fir, incense cedar, sugar pine, ponderosa pine, jeffrey pine, douglas fir, giant sequoia, black oak, white oak, Santa Lucia fir, Brewer's spruce, coast redwood, coast live oak, blue oak

Species Latin Names:
Sequoiadendron cf. giganteum, Abies cf. magnifica, Pinus cf. longaeva, Pinus cf. balfouriana, Pinus cf. monticola, Tsuga, Abies cf. concolor, Calocedrus cf. decurrens, Pinus cf. lambertiana, Pinus cf. ponderosa, Pinus cf. jeffreyi, Pseudotsuga cf. douglasii, Quercus cf. kelloggii, Quercus cf. lobata, Abies bracteata, Picea cf. breweriana, (Sequoia cf. sempervirens, Quercus cf. chrysolepis, Quercus douglasii

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June 01, 1996 12:00 AM

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Complete

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Public

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Tulelake, Owens Lake (dry), Chalk Bluffs

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Colfax, California; Susanville, California; La Porte, California

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Merced River Watershed Portal

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Tertiary Vegetation History: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project