Southern California Botanists
SYMPOSIA
44th Annual Southern California Botanists Symposium
Botany in the Hot Seat: Vegetation, Fire and Climate Change
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Pomona College
Seaver Auditorium, Claremont, CA
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(online early bird registration is $47 to account for paypal fee)
Schedule for 2018
Registration begins at 8:00am
9:00am Welcome by SCB President Justin Wood
9:15am Stephen Davis, Peperdine University,
Responses of Chaparral to Southern California's Changing Climate10:00am Carla D'Antonio, UC Santa Barbara
Chaparral Vulnerability and the Complexities of Restoration10:45am Break
11:00am Jan Beyers, U.S. Forest Service,
The Challenges of Chaparral Restoration.11:45am Josue Campos, Recon Native Plants
Ex Situ Seed Production for Conservation and Restoration12:15pm Lunch
1:45pm Scott Abella, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Long-Term Recovery from Wildfire Across a Regional Set of 32 Fires in the Mojave Desert2:30pm Edward G. Bobich,California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Responses of Southern California Black Walnut (Juglans californica) to Fire and Extreme Drought: Survival in a Changing Climate3:15pm Break
3:30pm Sarah Kimball, University of California, Irvine
Resistance and Resilience: Ten Years of Monitoring Shrub and Prairie Communities in Orange County4:15pm Michele Slaton, U.S. Forest Service Region 5
Tree Mortality, Drought, and Early Detection of Stress in the Southern Sierra Nevada and Southern California.
Mixer to follow at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Full Program with Abstracts can be download here