Recommended Citation
January 3, 2014.
Abstract
Situated at the northwest end of Santa Cruz County and occupying circa 30 square miles of sharply contrasted terrain, the Scott Creek Watershed concentrates within its geomorphological boundaries, at least 10-12% of California's flora, both native and introduced. Paradoxically, the use/abuse that the watershed has sustained over the past 140+ years, has not necessarily diminished the biodiversity and perhaps parallels the naturally disruptive but biologically energizing processes (fire, flooding, landslides and erosion), which have also been historically documented for the area for +60 years. This is an early edition of an extensive document by James A. West. Please visit the most recent edition, revised in 2016, with recent addendums at https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/spr_assocres/1/
Disciplines
Biodiversity | Biology | Botany | Plant Sciences
Copyright
© 2014 James A. West. This work is Creative Commons licensed: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Number of Pages
240
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URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/spr_assocres/7