Santa Monica Mountains Case Study

• 9 species were dominant (enough individuals to permit statistical analysis)

• Artemisia californica (California sagebrush)
• Baccharis pilularis (coyotebrush)
• Eriogonum cinereum (ashy-leaf buckwheat)
• E. fasciculatum (California buckwheat)
• Malosma laurina (laurel sumac)
• Mimulus aurantiacus (sticky monkeyflower)
• Salvia leucophylla (purple sage)
• S. mellifera (black sage)
• Stipa pulchra (purple needlegrass)