Structure of Two Cover Types of Southern Oak Woodland in California

<p>The southern oak woodland of southern California was analysed relative to the local distribution of the trees, density per acre, relative density, relative dominance, percentage of trees growing in close association to boulders, percentage of trees forked below breast height, frequencies of tree diameter and percentage of cover. These characteristics, with the exception of cover, were derived from measurements made using the wandering quarter method. Cover was computed from measurements made on aerial photographs.</p> <p>A test for homogeneity applied to the distance measurements divided the woodland into two groups relative to local distribution. Both woodlands are non-random with one (dense oak woodland) more non-random than the other, (grass oak woodland). Density per acre and percentage of foliage cover further supports this observation. Dense oak woodland is about twice as dense as grass oak woodland. There is a difference of 7 between the percentages of cover of the two woodlands.</p> <p>The woodlands consist chiefly of two species, coast live oak and the Engelmann oak. The ratios of one species to the other differs in the two woodland types. Engelmann oak is encountered nearly 90% of the time in grass oak woodland as compared to about 10% for coast live oak. The ratios of the two species is nearly 1 to 1 in dense oak woodland. The fact that the two species have different water requirements makes this last ratio problematic.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Biology

Year

1967

Author dc:creator

• Zuill, Henry A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Earl W. Lathrop
• Donald M. Brown
• Raymond E. Rykman

• Biology
• Forest Sciences
• Oak -- California; Coast live oak

Statement dc:rights

• This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/819

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsrepository.llu.edu:etd-1942