TY - JOUR AU - Tietje, Bill AU - Vreeland, Justin K. TI - Vertebrates diverse and abundant in well-structured oak woodland JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1997/11/01 VL - 51 IS - 6 SP - 8 EP - 11 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3733/ca.v051n06p8 L3 - 10.3733/ca.v051n06p8 AB - Knowledge of the diversity and abundance of vertebrates in relatively undisturbed oak woodlands could be used as a baseline for evaluating natural and human-caused perturbations. High numbers of terrestrial vertebrates were found in well-structured oak woodland at a study site in the Central Coast region. Within classes of terrestrial vertebrates, woodrats, dark-eyed juncos and slender salamanders exhibited the strongest habitat associations. Dense oak woodlands with shrubby understory and downed woody material supported the greatest numbers of vertebrate fauna.