Ecology and Management of California Grasslands
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A soil-phytolith analysis casts doubt on the widely-held belief that fragments of grassland in the East Bay hills of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, are the relictual remnants of formerly continuous perennial grassland, dominated by bunchgrass species
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Jon E. Keeley and Philip W. Rundel US Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Field Station, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: jon_keeley@u...
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