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California's Biology: Plants, Animals and Communities

Vegetation Communities and Habitats

Wieslander Vegetation Data UC Davis and UC Berkeley projects

The expected publication of Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America has supplement pages featured on this site. There are no color photographs in the book so the primary purpose of these pages is to present color photographs of serpentine soils and vegetation from Alaska to Baja California.

Dept. of Fish & Game Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch Access to CA State biological data

California Gap Analysis Page  Statewide vegetation map

Online Version of The Manual of California Vegetation

The California Department of Forestry 

California Native Plant Society's Vegetation Program

California Rangelands Page   UC Davis Department of Agronomy

USGS - National Park Service Vegetation Mapping Program

San Joaquin Valley Grasslands and Vernal Pools Bibliography

Forest Service Ecoregions Links

Ecological Sub-regions of California  Report on US Forest Service delineation of California, bibliography

Net Primary Productivity Database (NPP)  Oak Ridge National Laboratories, includes maps for Bailey's Ecoregions, Holdridge Life zones, and more. Select Data Set Overview or Complete Data Set List and scroll down to Regional and Global Data.

Photos of Vegetation Types, Digital Library Project

Rare and Threatened Vegetation of the California North Coastal Basin -A Report

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