California Shrub Diversity – Evolutionary and Ecological Patterns of Short Woody Plants

The Friends of San Pedro Valley Park welcome back Morgan Stickrod for a webinar on California Shrub Diversity. Relative to California’s abundance of charismatic trees and herbaceous plants, shrubs are often overlooked as amorphous or secondary features across the landscape. Yet California, like other regions of the world characterized by a Mediterranean-type climate, hosts a vast diversity of shrubs that are well represented throughout its myriad biomes and heterogeneous landscapes. Shrubland ecosystems such as chaparral account for the most extensive vegetation cover across the state, and collectively support some of the highest levels of plant diversity. We will explore many of the fascinating lineages that comprise California’s shrub diversity (with particular emphasis on the greater Bay Area), as well as the complex and dynamic ecological and evolutionary processes that have driven these systems over time.

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