The Vascular Flora of Greater San Quintín, Baja California, Mexico

<p>The plants of San Quintín (Baja California, Mexico) were documented through intensive fieldwork and the collection of herbarium specimens to create a checklist of species. This region is home to a diverse flora with high levels of local endemism and many rare plants. The flora documented in this study was compared to historical records from the region and shows the impact of agriculture and urbanization on the plants, including several extirpated species. A study of the perennial vegetation using a 1 km grid provides species distribution data for 140 native species, which were assessed to highlight areas of significant species richness for native, rare, and endemic taxa. Several non-native plants were also mapped to provide baseline data. Areas of conservation priority for the flora of Greater San Quintín are discussed in light of these combined findings.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Botany, MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Botany

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Vanderplank, Sula E

Contributors dc:contributor

• Richard Felger
• Jose Delgadillo

• Plants
• California Floristic Province
• Conservation
• Vegetation
• Endemism
• Rarity
• Extirpation
• Botany
• Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Other Life Sciences
• Other Plant Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/2

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1001