Mediterranean climates, but occur in many other ecosystems. During most years, a vernal pool basin will experience inundation from rain/precipitation, followed by...

The vernal pool fairy shrimp, Branchinecta lynchi, is a species of freshwater crustacean in the family Branchinectidae. It is endemic to the U.S. states...

forming the vernal pools. The Phoenix Vernal Pool ecosystem is relatively unique as is supports many species of fauna and flora endemic to vernal pools. The...

beavers). They can simply be isolated depressions (such as a kettle hole, vernal pool, prairie pothole, or simply natural undulations in undrained land) filled...

R. (eds.). Vernal pool-soil-landform relationships in the Central Valley, California. Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Vernal Pool Ecosystems...

African cricketer Vernal point, the point on the celestial sphere where the Sun is located during the northern spring equinox Vernal pool, temporary pools...

Vernal Fall is a 317-foot (96.6 m) waterfall on the Merced River just downstream of Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park, California. Like its upstream...

2011. Thorp, Robbin W. (5 March 2013). "Vernal pool flowers and their specialist bee pollinators". California Vernal Pools. Archived from the original on...

Consequences for Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Pollen Limitation in a Vernal Pool Plant. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 174(6), 853–862. https://doi...

Management of Vernal Pool Ecosystems. California Native Plant Society. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-943460-37-6. Green, Scott. "Fairy shrimp". The Vernal Pool Association...

Branchiopoda; its members are referred to as fairy shrimp. They live in vernal pools and hypersaline lakes across the world, and they have even been found...

the shrimp are gone long before the pool finally dries up. The fairy shrimp have been spotted and collected in vernal pools from early November to early...

have been known to live up to 32 years, and normally return to the same vernal pool every year. These pools are seasonal and will usually dry up during the...

Lepidurus packardi, the vernal pool tadpole shrimp, is a small, rare species of tadpole shrimp (Notostraca) found in temporary ponds of the western United...

to protect sensitive vernal pool habitats but later expanded it to 6,428 acres (2,601 ha) with the creation of the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve...

Reserve has the only protected, reproducing Engelmanns in the states. A vernal pool is a shallow depression in the soil which fills up with water during...

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appropriate pool habitat. Each pool "complex" consists of several vernal pools supported by a collective watershed, a critical component of the vernal pool system...

000-acre (40 km2) Tule Ranch, a working cattle ranch with extensive vernal pool areas. Most wetland in the wildlife area are managed as seasonal wetlands...

Santa Rosa (outside the floodplain), south to Santa Barbara County, in vernal pool complexes and isolated ponds along the Central Valley from Colusa County...

its endangered status. 7. Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi) This tiny aquatic animal inhabits seasonal vernal pools that form after rain...

in the spring to breed in what is known as a salamander congress in the vernal pools that form there. In the early 1980s, volunteers carried salamanders...

season (summer and autumn), their offspring stay inside the eggs. As the pool fills with rainwater during the winter and spring, they hatch and feed on...

The Loch Lomond Vernal Pool Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve of 8.22 acres (33,300 m2) in the community of Loch Lomond in Lake County, California...

family known by the common names annual checkerbloom, checker mallow, and vernal pool checkerbloom. The plant is endemic to California, along the North Coast...

ecosystems, where they may have local names. However, vernal pool can be applied to all such temporary pool ecosystems. Playa lakes are a form of shallow freshwater...

rods from a nuclear reactor Vernal pools, seasonal pools of water that provide habitat for distinctive plants and animals. Pool (cards), the common pot for...

winter and early spring, the pools are also a known habitat for the vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi), a threatened species. Two types of...

nineteen taxa currently recognized. Members of this family are prominent in vernal pool communities of California. Some taxa have been domesticated for use as...

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