Santa Cruz Island Reserve

18 May, 01 AM - 20 May, 10 AM

The Channel Islands are well known for their high numbers of endemic plant taxa. The flora of the Channel Islands is well characterized and has contributed to the global understanding of evolution biogeography in island systems. Very little is known, however, about the non-vascular flora. Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) have been collected from a few of the islands, but a systematic effort to inventory the bryophytes of the Channel Islands has not been made until now. The goals of this project are to gather and verify all the existing collections in herbaria (which are few) and to make systematic collections on the islands. Collections will not only provide the basis for a bryophyte flora of the islands, but will also provide material for taxonomic experts interested in the currently unknown extent of endemism on the islands. In addition, new collections will facilitate phylogeographic studies of bryophytes on the islands.

Visit #21352 @Santa Cruz Island Reserve

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Under Project # 21720 | Research

Bryophyte Inventory of the Channel Islands

graduate_student - University of California, Berkeley

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Benjamin Carter May 18 - 20, 2010 (3 days)

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