Natural History of Orange County, California

Natural History of Orange County, California and nearby places Complete list of animal phyla including those not represented here Bryant's Creatures
Species
Protozoa	Hydrozoa	Anthozoa	Scyphozoa	Annelids and other Worms
Insects	Arachnids	Myriapods	Pycnogonids	Crustacea
Molluscs	Echinoderms	Tunicates	Fish	Amphibians
Lizards	Snakes	Turtles	Birds....... Bird Families	Mammals
Pennate Diatoms	Centric Diatoms	Dinoflagellates	Unicellular algae	Macroalgae
Liverworts	Mosses	Slime molds	Fungi	Lichens
Ferns	Gymnosperms	Monocots	Eudicots	Magnoliids
Habitats
Ocean California's Nearshore Waters and Open Ocean	Islands and Offshore Rocks California's Islands and Offshore Rocks	Rocky Intertidal Intertidal Life of Orange County, California California's rocky intertidal zones		Bluffs and Headlands California's Coastal Bluffs
Beaches California's Beaches	Coastal Sand Dunes California's Coastal Sand Dunes	Marine Terraces California's Marine Terraces		Streams and Rivers Introduction to Orange County Watersheds
Wetlands Filter Feeders California's Wetlands California's coastal wetlands Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center of Orange County Upper Newport Bay	Coastal Sage Scrub UCI Ecological Preserve Electronic Trail Guides (In development) Restoration Ecology at UCI Natural Community Conservation Planning The Irvine Ranch Land Reserve	Chaparral California Chaparral Field Institute	Oak Woodland After the Rain	Coastal Mountains California's coastal mountains
Organizations
Regional Conservation Issues Vandergast, A. G., A. J. Bohonak, S. A. Hathaway, J. Boys, and R. N. Fisher. 2008. Are hotspots of evolutionary potential adequately protected in southern California? Biological Conservation 141:1648-1664. Finding Evolutionary Hotspots in Southern California for Conservation Planning California Wildlife Habitat Relationships
Compiled by Dr. Peter J. Bryant (pjbryant@uci.edu) School of Biological Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717, USA Phone (949) 824-4714 Fax (949) 824-3571