Climate change could shrink range of most of California’s endemic plants
Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
By Scott
California’s unique native plants are so vulnerable to global climate change that two-thirds of the state’s endemic plants could suffer more than an 80 percent reduction in geographic range by the end of the century, according to a new study led by Scott Loarie, a Ph.D. candidate with Stuart Pimm at the Nicholas School for the Environment.
Click here to read the article published today in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Click here to see maps of the impacts of climate change on individual plants.
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