General
Animals
Geology and Geography
Plants
Weather and ClimateThese sites are not listed in any particular order. See also Field Guide To The San Gabriel Mountains: Natural History
General
- Terry Hunefeld's Upcoming Nature Activities in San Diego County (this page also contains information about how to join the SDNature newsgroup, an email discussion group of nature-related items in San Diego County)
- H. Towner's Southern California Natural History: a Multimedia Textbook
- San Diego Natural History Museum's Field Guide to Southern California
- Natural Science Section of the Sierra Club, Angeles Chapter.
Animals
- Bears in San Diego County
- Moths of San Diego County from GreatPlains.org
- Southern California Mountains and Foothills Assessment: Habitat and Species Conservation Issues (Chapter 2: Mountain and Foothills Ecosystems; Chapter 3: Factors Influencing Ecosystem Integrity; Chapter 4: Potentially Vulnerable Species: Animals; and Chapter 6: Game and Other High-Interest Species)
- The USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory's Wildlife Species Life Form (an excellent reference for a large number of animals. For example, the page on coyote is 47 kB of very interesting information, with references.)
- H. Towner's Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of Southern California.
- Robert N. Fisher's and Ted J. Case's A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California
- San Diego Natural History Museum's Field Guide to Southern California has many animal links.
- Pasadena Audubon Society's Arroyo Southwestern Toad
- Tom Chester's:
- Ron Lyons' Bug Walk Articles
- Kevin Crook's Tabby Go Home "Outdoor cats surrounding the typical, moderately-sized canyon kill nearly 1000 rodents, over 500 birds, and over 600 lizards per year."
- Cats, Dogs & Wildlife from Native Species Network
- The California Reader's Chaparral: An Elfin Forest (click on Animals of the Chaparral from the 1906 book Life in the open; sport with rod, gun, horse, and hound in southern California by Charles Frederick Holder)
- Mike Jacoubowsky's Killer Squirrels Take on Cyclists!
- Field Guide to Traffic Cones (see also their Evolution from ancient squids)
Geology and Geography
- Chris Metzler's Geology Field Trip of San Diego County: Coast to Mountains
- Tanya Atwater's Plate tectonic animations (click on animations in the left hand frame for Pacific Hemisphere Plate Tectonic History, for the area setting, and Plate Tectonic History of Southern California, which shows very clearly how the SGM were formed)
- John McPhee's The Control of Nature: Los Angeles Against The Mountains-1
- San Andreas Field Trip
- Southern California Areal Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Map for California and for Southern California
- James P. McCalpin's Ridgetop Splitting, Spreading, and Shattering Related to Earthquakes in Southern California (interesting work on the origins of closed depressions, troughs, and scarps on top of ridges in the SGM)
Plants See main index page.
Weather and Climate
- High Temperatures in the San Diego County Mountains
- H. Towner's Climate of Southern California.
- Plot of Average Annual Precipitation for California
- William H. DuBay's Review of Historic Rainstorms in California
Go to Field Guide to San Diego County
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Updated 7 December 2003
