Conservation of Invertebrates
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The redwood forests support an unknown but large number of invertebrate species and, over all seasons, more than two hundred species of vertebrates (A. Cooperrider, unpub. comp.). Beyond this, knowledge of the redwoods fauna is surprisingly limited. Despite the enormous public attention that has been focused on redwood forests in recent years, comparatively little has been written about the ecology of their terrestrial fauna. One explanation for this deficiency is that few animal species are endemic to the redwood region and no known species is restricted to redwood stands. Although the biogeography of redwood forests and associated fauna has not been well studied, the evidence suggests that most vertebrate species opportunistically adapted to life in the redwoods relatively recently, rather than having coevolved with redwoods over a long period of geologic time. Vertebrate species lists from redwood and Douglas-fir forests in the redwood region show few differences (table 5.1), with a nearly 95 percent
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