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Continued Investigation into the Response and Recovery of Plants and Animals from the 2003 and 2007 San Diego Wildfires

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Project description

This study involves sampling terrestrial biodiversity at pitfall arrays at each of the four original pitfall trapping study sites that were sampled after the 2003 wildfires. Additionally, the USGS will conduct surveys at the San Diego Wild Animal Park which burned completely during the 2007 wildfires.

Project protocol

Name: No protocol available at this time

Project location

County: Baja California, San Diego

General: Central-central, Central-west, South-central, South-west

MU: 10, 3, 4, 6, 9

Project spatial boundary

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Project focus

Project type: Monitoring

Implementing entities

Main implementing entity: U.S. Geological Survey

SDMMP lead: Chris Brown

Project funding agreements

Funding participants
Role Participants
funding source Environmental Mitigation Program

Strategic elements

Budget year: pre FY15-1 Work plan objectives number:

Files and documents

Bat communities of Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve and Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve before and after 2003 wildfires Effects of large-scale wildfire on carnivores in San Diego County, California Effects of large-scale wildfire on the scorpion and solifugid Communities on the San Diego MSCP Region Effects of large-scale wildfires on rodents in Southern California Fire driven alien invasion in a fire-adapted ecosystem Plant Community Responses to Large-scale wildfires at four wildlife areas in southern California Reptile and Amphibian Responses to Large-scale Wildfires in Southern California Response and Recovery of Faunal and Floral Communities to the 2003 and 2007 San Diego Wildfires Response of Southern California chaparral communities burned in 2003 fire storm to the subsequent re-burn by the 2007 Poomacha and Witch Fires Responses in Bird Communities to Wildland Fires in Southern Calilfornia The Response and Recovery of Animals and Plants to the 2003 and 2007 San Diego County Wildfires