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Other Pests of Oaks in California Thomas F. Smith, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Although major invasive insects and diseases have been shown to have profound impacts on oaks in California there are many other pests that do act as stress agents too.
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Long-term monitoring of mixed oak woodlands for goldspotted oak borer host preference and spatiotemporal patterns in host colonization Adrian L. Poloni, Inland Empire Resource Conservation District (IERCD) Stacy M.
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Monitoring Drought and Beetle Mortality in the Santa Monica Mountains and Implementing an Early Detection-Rapid Response Plan Rosi Dagit, RCD of the Santa Monica Mountains Since 2012 hundreds of native trees (alders, oaks, sycamores, willows) in the Santa Monica Mountains have died, mostly due to th...
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Drone-based Remote Sensing of Canopy Thinning to Inform Conservation Management for California Live Oak Communities Facing Insect Pest Invasions and Drought Marc Mayes, Earth Research Institute, University of California-Santa Barbara Andrea Hefty, Stacy Hishinuma, Sheri Smith: US Forest Service, Pac...
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Screening Oak Taxa for Suitability for Producing Acorns as an Animal Feed Crop Shawn Overstreet, Independent Scholar, UC Davis Thomas Gradziel, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis Substituting perennial carbon-sequestering oak trees for a portion of the annual cereal grains...
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Investigating Blue Oak Phenology, Vigor, and Mortality on Central California Rangelands Rebecca Ozeran, University of California Cooperative Extension Julie Finzel, University of California Cooperative Extension and Devii Rao, University of California Cooperative Extension On rangelands in the south...
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A Theoretical Model of Oak Persistence Under Competition and Herbivory M.V. Eitzel, Science & Justice Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz Oak tree populations in California face a number of challenges for population persistence.
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Will Oak Populations Migrate?
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Participatory Field Gene Banks: A Novel Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for California Oaks Blair McLaughlin, Hampshire College Alissa Fogg, Point Blue Conservation Science Climate change already is causing range contraction and loss of genetic diversity at some oak species trailing edges.
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Detecting Introgression and Determining the Potential of Adaptive Gene Flow Between Two Hybridizing Californian White Oaks (Quercus sect. Quercus) Scott T. ODonnell, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Sorel T.
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