Docent Class Materials

Week 1: Introduction materials

Vegetation Community Map of Jasper Ridge

Jasper Ridge Boundaries .kmz file for Google Earth - JRBP Boundaries.kmz

Week 2: Geological History

American Geosciences Institute, Interactive map of the geology of California [link broken]

The Geologic Timeline brochure - for Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

Geologic map of the preserve in: Coleman, R. G. (2004). Geologic nature of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, San Francisco Peninsula, California. International Geology Review, 46(7), 629-637.

Notes: “The Role of Geology at Jasper Ridge”

Jasper Ridge Geology .kmz files for Google Earth - JasperRidgeGeo.kmz

Week 3: Soils of Jasper Ridge

Presentation: Soils, Scott Fendorf, with handouts

Week 4: Watershed / Hydrology

San Francisquito Creek Watershed Jurisdictions Map

Cohen, Brian (2002) San Francisquito Creek Watershed Map, Joint Powers Authority. GreenInfo Network.

Week 5: Archaeology/Anthropology:

Webinar: “Searsville Before Stanford: History and Archaeology in the Upper San Francisquito Watershed” Presenter: Laura Jones, Stanford Archaeologist, Stanford Historical Society

Becks, F. S. (2018). Articulations of the Ineffable: Narratives, Engagement, and Historical Anthropology with the Muwekma Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area. Stanford University.

Truth, R. N. (2018). Changing the narrative about Native Americans: A guide for allies. Echo Hawk Consulting and First Nations Development Institute. Accessed May, 12, 2021.

Preface and Introduction in: Anderson, K. (2005). Tending the wild: Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources. Univ of California Press.

Burson, E. (1998). Taxa Diversity and Prehistoric Foraging Along the San Francisquito Watershed, California: A 4000-year Record of Resource Use (Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University).

Anderson, M. K., Barbour, M. G., & Whitworth, V. (1997). A world of balance and plenty: land, plants, animals, and humans in a pre-European California. California History, 76(2/3), 12-47.

Siska E Heemeteya Puichon Wolwoolum - Plant Life of the Puichon Ohlone - Native Plants of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and their Traditional Uses by the Muwekma Ohlone, compiled by Leon J. No'eau Peralto (2008)

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Native Plant Chochenyo Names and Uses, Castle Rock Native Garden Pamphlet (Rev July 12, 2019)

Bocek, B. R. (1984). Ethnobotany of costanoan Indians, California, based on collections by John P. Harrington. Economic Botany, 38(2), 240-255.

Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation (2009). “Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area” pamphlet. 40 pp. 

Anderson, M. K., Barbour, M. G., & Whitworth, V. (1997). A world of balance and plenty: land, plants, animals, and humans in a pre-European California. California History, 76(2/3), 12-47.

Bocek, R. R. (1981). Natural Resources of the San Francisquito Drainage: Seasonal Productivity and Prehistoric Subsistence and Settlement. Master’s Paper, Stanford University. 41 pp.

Bocek, B. R. (1987). Hunter-gatherer ecology and settlement mobility along San Francisquito Creek. Stanford University.

Bocek, B. (1992). The Jasper Ridge reexcavation experiment: Rates of artifact mixing by rodents. American Antiquity, 57(2), 261-269.

Takayama, J., Sahlin, D., Kokinos, J., Bocek, B. (1979) A Tale of Two Sites (or Possibly Three): A Descriptive Analysis of the Slag Archaeological Sites on Jasper Ridge. Anthropology/AES 183 Course Project, 39 pp.

Jones, Laura. (2020) Jasper Ridge Land Acknowledgment.

Week 6: Each one Teach One Lesson

Laminated plant cards are available to borrow at the field station, or upon request

Week 7: Introduction to Ecology and quantitative analysis of plant communities

Guide to Common Oaks of Jasper Ridge

Vegetation Community Map of Jasper Ridge

Ecosystems of California: Threats & Responses: Supplement for Decision-Making (2016). Harold Mooney and Erika Zavaleta, editors. University of California Press, 80 pp. 

Week 8: Carbon cycling in Jasper Ridge

Ciais, P., Sabine, C., Bala, G., Bopp, L., Brovkin, V., & House, J. I. (2014). Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles. In Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Change (pp. 465-570). Cambridge University Press.

Horwath, W., & Paul, E. A. (2015). Carbon cycling: the dynamics and formation of organic matter. Soil microbiology, ecology and biochemistry, 4, 339-82.

Field, C. B., Lobell, D. B., Peters, H. A., & Chiariello, N. R. (2007). Feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 32(1), 1-29.

Cole, J. J., Hararuk, O., & Solomon, C. T. (2021). The carbon cycle: with a brief introduction to global biogeochemistry. In Fundamentals of ecosystem science (pp. 131-160). Academic Press.

Schlesinger, W. H., & Bernhardt, E. S. (2013). Wetland ecosystems. Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change.

Schlesinger, W. H., & Bernhardt, E. S. (2013). The biosphere: the carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 135-172.

Schlesinger, W. H., & Bernhardt, E. S. (2013). The global carbon cycle. Biogeochemistry, 419-444

Jiang, L., Shao, J., Shi, Z., Zhou, X., Zhou, Z., & Luo, Y. (2019). Responses of grasslands to experimental warming. In Ecosystem consequences of soil warming (pp. 347-384). Academic Press.Week 9: Research at Jasper Ridge

Week 9: Research at Jasper Ridge

Presentation: Plant-Animal Interactions, Rodolfo Dirzo
Presentation: Piezometric Surface Observations at Searsville Reservoir, David Freyberg

JRBP ('O'O) Research Paper Reading List:

Waters, C. N., Zalasiewicz, J., Summerhayes, C., Barnosky, A. D., Poirier, C., Gałuszka, A., ... & Wolfe, A. P. (2016). The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. Science, 351(6269), aad2622.

Barnosky, A. D., Hadly, E. A., Gonzalez, P., Head, J., Polly, P. D., Lawing, A. M., ... & Zhang, Z. (2017). Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems. Science, 355(6325), eaah4787.

California State Water Board, Pebble Count Methods. Adapted from Chapter 11 of Harrelson, C. C. (1994). Stream channel reference sites: an illustrated guide to field technique (Vol. 245). US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

Evelyn, M. J., Stiles, D. A., & Young, R. A. (2004). Conservation of bats in suburban landscapes: roost selection by Myotis yumanensis in a residential area in California. Biological Conservation, 115(3), 463-473.

Blair, R. (2004). The effects of urban sprawl on birds at multiple levels of biological organization. Ecology and Society, 9(5).

Bohm, B. A., & Rajakaruna, N. (2006). The Lasthenia californica story: It started with flavonoids. Natural Product Communications, 1(11), 1934578X0600101117.

Ehrlich, P. R., Murphy, D. D., Singer, M. C., Sherwood, C. B., White, R. R., & Brown, I. L. (1980). Extinction, reduction, stability and increase: the responses of checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas) populations to the California drought. Oecologia, 46, 101-105.

Graves, W. R., & Schrader, J. A. (2008). At the interface of phylogenetics and population genetics, the phylogeography of Dirca occidentalis (Thymelaeaceae). American Journal of Botany, 95(11), 1454-1465.

Harrison, S., Murphy, D. D., & Ehrlich, P. R. (1988). Distribution of the bay checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas editha bayensis: evidence for a metapopulation model. The American Naturalist, 132(3), 360-382.

Heller, N. E. (2004). Colony structure in introduced and native populations of the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile. Insectes Sociaux, 51, 378-386.

Koenig, W. D., Knops, J. M., Carmen, W. J., & Stanback, M. T. (1999). Spatial dynamics in the absence of dispersal: acorn production by oaks in central coastal California. Ecography, 22(5), 499-506.

Stephens, S. L., & Fry, D. L. (2007). Fire History in Coast Redwood Stands in San Mateo County Parks and Jasper Ridge, Santa Cruz Mountains. In In: Standiford, Richard B.; Giusti, Gregory A.; Valachovic, Yana; Zielinski, William J.; Furniss, Michael J., technical editors. 2007. Proceedings of the redwood region forest science symposium: What does the future hold? Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-194. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture; p. 219-222 (Vol. 194).

Bruton, S., Ong, F., & Geeting, G. (2000). Science Content Standards for California Public Schools: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve. California Dept. of Education, 721 Capitol Mall, PO Box 944272, Sacramento, CA 94244-2720.

Bauer, J. W., Logan, K. A., Sweanor, L. L., & Boyce, W. M. (2005). Scavenging behavior in puma. The Southwestern Naturalist, 50(4), 466-471.

Shaw, M. R., Zavaleta, E. S., Chiariello, N. R., Cleland, E. E., Mooney, H. A., & Field, C. B. (2002). Grassland responses to global environmental changes suppressed by elevated CO2. science, 298(5600), 1987-1990.

Brown, I. L., & Ehrlich, P. R. (1980). Population biology of the checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas chalcedona structure of the Jasper Ridge colony. Oecologia, 47, 239-251.

Dirzo, R., Mendoza, E., Cachú, Y., & Gomez, W. (2009). Status of large and medium-sized mammals at JRBP. Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve State of the Preserve Assessment, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University.

Ehrlich, P. R. (1965). The population biology of the butterfly, Euphydryas editha. II. The structure of the Jasper Ridge colony. Evolution, 327-336.

Week 10: Plant Evolution

Corelli, Toni (2005) Common Wildflower Families Workbook. Copyright Toni Corelli, with illustrations by Judy Mason.

Species Form worksheet

Winter Finals Week

Complete tour narrative as take-home final, and project proposal

Week 11: Secondary metabolites in plants and the mysteries of flower color; serpentine wildflowers

Presentation: The Chemical Ecology of Plants, Stuart Koretz

Dement, William A., and Harold A. Mooney. "Seasonal variation in the production of tannins and cyanogenic glucosides in the chaparral shrub, Heteromeles arbutifolia." Oecologia 15.1 (1974): 65-76.

Week 12: Herbivory and evolution of plant defenses

Ehrlich, Paul R., and Peter H. Raven. "Butterflies and plants: a study in coevolution." Evolution (1964): 586-608.

Week 13: Role of herbivores on plant diversity

Presentation: Animal-Plant Interactions, Rodolfo Dirzo

Week 14: Camera traps and mammals class

Presentation: The Mammals in the Anthropocene, Rodolfo Dirzo

Sandbrook, Chris, et al. "Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data." Conservation Science and Practice 3.5 (2021): e374.

Week 15: Terrestrial Invertebrates

Presentation: Arthropods, Melanopodium empanadaphagus

Jasper Ridge Ant Field Guide

Jasper Ridge Ant Table

Week 16: Amphibians and reptiles

Guide: Reptiles and Amphibians of Stanford and Vicinity (2010)

Week 17: Fish diversity, lake and creek communities 

Guide: Fishes of the San Francisquito Creek and Matadero Watersheds (2018)

Week 18: Apply your knowledge, design and lead a JR tour for high school students

Week 19: Project reports and presentations, Round 1. 

Searsville social history re-enactment with costumes

Project presentations, round 1.

Week 20: Project reports and presentations, Round 2. Graduation event and picnic. 

Open to the Jasper Ridge community