... megavertebrates,''¹

If you want another acronym, I suppose we could call them CMVs. And yes, I know that CMV more commonly refers to cytomegalovirus, but there are only so many acronyms you can make. Some are sure to be duplicates.

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... invertebrate.²

This discussion is drawn largely from [2].

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... purpurascens³

Formerly known as Orthocarpus purpurascens.

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... soil.⁴

Serpentine soil is derived from rock high in heavy metals and having an unusual calcium/magnesium ratio. It is toxic to most plants, including nearly all introduced grasses and forbs. In fact, serpentine grasslands are almost the only remaining native grasslands in this part of California.

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... life-history⁵

N.B.: Central California has a Mediterranean climate--Most of the roughly 20" of rain it receives comes between late October and early April.

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... species.⁶

We'll come back to this in discussing the management recommendations Murphy et al. make.

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... away.⁷

Is this assertion actually defensible? There is no evidence that satellite populations contribute to persistence of the reservoir population. If the satellite populations go extinct frequently, should we really be concerned about them? Are they any more than a sink?

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... dynamics⁸

Which we supposedly need before we can do a population viability analysis.

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