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Vernal Pools - Ephemeral Oasis of the Foothills
This article describes how vernal pools are formed, what animals live in them, what eats the animals that inhabit the vernal pools, and discusses the “unique assemblage of plants, several of which are endemic or only occur in vernal pool habitats.” It also includes a section on where to visit vernal pools.
"The San Joaquin Valley is home to a unique habitat – vernal pools – that exist largely unnoticed by most of us. Agriculture and urban development are causing vernal pools to disappear before many of us have the chance to learn about, much less appreciate, all they have to offer."
vernal pools,
protozoa, flatworms, leeches, seed shrimp, clam shrimp, copepods, isopods, water fleas, tadpole shrimp, fairy shrimp, Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp, Pacific Tree Frog, Western Spadefoot Toads, California Tiger Salamanders, goldfields, blue and purple flowering downingias, pogogyne, woolly marbles, slender popcorn flower, tricolored monkey flower, prickly coyote thistle, annual hairgrass, San Joaquin orcutt grass, Greene’s tuctoria
Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi), Pacific Tree Frog (Hyla regilla, Western Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus hammondi), California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum), goldfield (Lasthenia sp.), blue and purple flowering downingia (Downingia sp.), pogogyne (Pogogyne sp.), woolly marble (Psilocarphus sp.), slender popcorn flower (Plagiobothrys stipitatus), tricolored monkey flower (Mimulus tricolor), prickly coyote thistle (Eryngium sp.), annual hairgrass (Deschampsia danthonioides), San Joaquin orcutt grass (Orcuttia inaequalis), Greene’s tuctoria (Tuctoria greenei)
Durgarian, Alisa. "Vernal Pools - Ephemeral Oasis of the Foothills." Sierra Nature Notes, Volume 1, January 2001.
December 31, 2000 10:00 PM
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