- VernalPools.Org
Dedicated to saving California's vernal pool landscapes.
www.vernalpools.org
- Down Memory Lane: The Los Angeles Coastal Prairie and Its Vernal Pools
(PDF)
Offers a historical description, with photos and a plant list, of the habitat destroyed in the late 1960s.
www.urbanwildlands.org/Resources/prairieposter.pdf
- California Wetlands Information System: Vernal Pools
Addresses the history and preservation of the seasonally flooded depressions found on ancient soils.
www.ceres.ca.gov/wetlands/geo_info/vernal_pools.html
- Vermont Wetlands Bioassessment Project: Vernal Pools
Report from Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's to assess the natural variability in the biological, chemical, and physical makeup of reference-quality vernal pools in Vermont.
www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/waterq/bass/htm/bs_vernal.htm
- Mather Vernal Pools
Information about the plants, animals, and geology of the California Central Valley vernal pool.
www.vernalpools.org/mather.htm
- Life in a Vernal Pool
American Museum of Natural History Young Naturalist Awards essay recording the seasonal changes in a vernal pool.
www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/2004/yanhui.html
- Vernal Pool Association
Environmental project of Reading Memorial High School of Massachusetts, encouraging the appreciation, protection, and interdisciplinary study of vernal pools.
www.vernalpool.com
- Pots of Gold
Looks at the potential of prairie potholes as carbon sinks.
magazine.audubon.org/features0312/pots_of_gold.html
- Rhode Island Vernal Pool
Includes information on the characteristics of vernal pools, how to identify them, and the species associated with them. From the Rhode Island Department of Natural Resources Science.
www.uri.edu/cels/nrs/paton
- Climate Change and Ephemeral Pool Ecosystems: Potholes and Vernal Pools as Potential Indicator Systems
Looks at how ephemeral pool species and ecosystems are tied directly to temperature and precipitation patterns.
geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/biology/vernal
- Vernal Pools of the Santa Rosa Plateau
Report on the only known examples of southern basalt flow vernal pools.
tchester.org/srp/vp
- Draft Recovery Plan for Vernal Pool Ecosystems of California and Southern Oregon
Features 33 species of plants and animals that occur exclusively or primarily within a vernal pool ecosystem. Additionally addresses another 13 species of concern.
pacific.fws.gov/ecoservices/endangered/recovery/vernal%5Fpool
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