Photographs were generously provided by a number of colleagues. Individual slide credits are given below; those not listed are from the authors' personal collections.
STEPHEN DAVIS, Pepperdine University 6, 7, 10, 29, 33–36, 39, 44, 49, 51, 60, 74
JACQUES DESCLOITRES, courtesy of NASA 12
WILLIAM FOLLETTE 59
ROBERT GUSTAFSON, Los Angeles Country Museum of Natural History 4, 41, 42
LINDA HARDIE-SCOTT, The Nature Conservancy 1, 42, 52, 54, 57, 58, 71
CHARLES HOGUE, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History 69, 70, 72, 73
FRANK HOVORE/DEDE GILMAN, Hovore Associates 5, 32, 67, 80
GLENN KEATOR 16
PHILIP RUNDEL, University of California at Los Angeles 40
TIMOTHY THOMAS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3, 25, 61, 68
SHERRY WOOD, Gonzaga University 26
PAUL ZEDLER, University of Wisconsin 13, 32, 56
6 Chamise shrubs drawn after Arthur W. Sampson, “Plant succession on burned chaparral lands in northern California,” Calif. Agric. Exper. Stn. Bull. 685, 1944.
7, 8, 10, 12–14, 16, 18, 19, 33 Drawn in part from Hazel Gordon and Thomas C. White, Ecological Guide to Southern California Chaparral Plant Series: Transverse and Peninsular Ranges: Angeles, Cleveland, and San Bernardino National Forests, RS-ECOL-TP-005 (San Francisco: Cleveland National Forest, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, 1994).
25 Cone redrawn with permission from Jim W. Dole and Betty B. Rose, Shrubs and Trees of the Southern California Coastal Region (North Hills, Calif.: Foot-loose Press, 1996).
52 Whiptail drawn after photograph by Nathan W. Cohen in Alden H. Miller and Robert C. Stebbins, The Lives of Desert Animals in Joshua Tree National Monument (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964).
57 Drawn from figure 22 of Klaus W. H. Radtke, Living More Safely in the Chaparral-Urban Interface, General Technical Report PSW-67 (Berkeley, Calif.: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1983).