Major Publications from early MVZ Surveys
Major publications (monographs, books) that resulted from early MVZ field surveys. Many of these include photographs, maps, and paintings by Allan Brooks, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and others.
| Author(s) | Year | Title | Publisher |
| Grinnell | 1908 | The biota of the San Bernadino Mountains | University of California Publications in Zoology |
| Grinnell | 1913 | Distributional list of the mammals of California | University of California Publications in Zoology |
| Taylor | 1914 | Field notes of amphibians, reptiles, and birds of northern Humboldt Co., Nevada | University of California Publications in Zoology |
| Grinnell | 1914 | An account of the mammals and birds of the Lower Colorado Valley | University of California Publications in Zoology |
| Grinnell | 1915 | A distributional list of the birds of California | Cooper Ornithological Club |
| Grinnell, Bryant, & Storer | 1918 | The game birds of California | University of California Press |
| Grinnell | 1918 | Natural history of the ground squirrels of California | The Monthly Bulletin, California State Commission of Horticulture |
| Grinnell & Storer | 1924 | Animal life in the Yosemite (now available online) | University of California Press |
| Grinnell & Wythe | 1927 | Directory to the bird-life of the San Francisco Bay Region | Cooper Ornithological Club |
| Grinnell | 1928 | A distributional summation of the ornithology of Lower California | University of California Publications in Zoology |
| Grinnell, Dixon, & Linsdale | 1930 | Vertebrate natural history of a section of northern California through the Lassen Peak Region | University of California Press |
| Grinnell | 1932 | Life zones of Yosemite | Contributions from the MVZ |
| Grinnell | 1932 | Mammals of Yosemite | Contributions from the MVZ |
| Grinnell | 1932 | Birds of the Berkeley campus | Contributions from the MVZ |
| Grinnell & Linsdale | 1936 | Vertebrate animals of Point Lobos Reserve, 1934-35 | Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| Grinnell, Dixon, & Linsdale | 1937 | Fur-bearing mammals of California | University of California Press |
| Linsdale | 1938 | Environmental responses of vertebrates in the Great Basin | American Midland Naturalist |
| Grinnell & Miller | 1944 | The distibution of the birds of California | Cooper Ornithological Club |
| Hall | 1946 | Mammals of Nevada | University of California Press |
| Johnson, Bryant, & Miller | 1948 | Vertebrate animals of the Providence Mountains area of California | University of California Publications in Zoology |
| Leopold | 1959 | Wildlife of Mexico | University of California Press |
| Miller & Stebbins | 1964 | The lives of desert animals in Joshua Tree National Monument | University of California Press |