On Saturday, February 8th at 7 pm, the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park welcome back Dr. Tom Parker, Professor of Biology Emeritus from San Francisco State University for a talk that answers the question, “How Much Does Chaparral Differ from Place to Place?”  Chaparral vegetation varies considerably in California, occupying a little more than 9% of the state, but contains almost 25% of plant species, with a lot of endemic ones. That suggests it looks different from place to place. Dr. Parker will introduce us to some of the dominant species’ diversity and will focus on the Bay Area versus San Diego County. He will also briefly include montane chaparral, which we find above the snow line in our mountains. So you can look forward to lots of photos, no graphs during his talk. Join us for a very special evening.

About the speaker: Tom Parker is Professor of Biology Emeritus at San Francisco StateUniversity and currently the Editor-in-Chief of Madroño, the Western America Journal of Botany, a publication of the California Botanical Society. Dr. Parker is an evolutionary ecologist focused on the role of plants in ecological communities. He specializes in the dynamics of plant communities and has conducted research principally on tidal wetlands and chaparral.

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