ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sterling C. Keeley is Professor of Botany at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. She served as the scientific adviser for the Chaparral Hall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and edited The California Chaparral: Paradigms Reexamined (1989). In California, her research focused on the fire-following plants of the chaparral.

Ronald D. Quinn is Professor of Biological Sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has published widely on effects of fire and herbivory on chaparral, and other mediterranean ecosystems of the world.

Marianne D. Wallace has been a natural science illustrator and educator for over 30 years. She lives in the foothills of southern California, sharing her toyon-bordered backyard with wood rats, Mule Deer, Wrentits, and other chaparral species.