Vegetation-related Resources

Manual of California Vegetation Online provides the updated, standardized classification for the state in a searchable database, along with photos of each alliance and explanatory chapters from the Manual
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) National Vegetation Classification Standard
Ecological Society of America Panel on Vegetation Classification
VegBank database of the Ecological Society of America
California Native Plant Society Vegetation Program website
Fire Effects Information system, with plant-related links
CAL FIRE Fire and Resource Assessment Program website
USFS Region 5 Remote Sensing
NatureServe Explorer
NPS Vegetation Inventory Products
A Manual of California Vegetation, 2nd Edition By John Sawyer, Todd Keeler-Wolf, and Julie Evens
Terrestrial Vegetation of California Edited by Michael Barbour, Todd Keeler-Wolf, and Allan A. Schoenherr

Biogeographic Data Branch
(916) 322-2493 | BDB@wildlife.ca.gov

VegCAMP