Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

16 Oct, 10 AM - 18 Oct, 09 AM

Global climate changes bring myriad changes that plants must endure. Understanding plant responses to environmental changes is critical to predicting future community dynamics. The California native Heteromeles arbutifolia is abundant throughout the California Floristic Province. H. arbutifolia can survive fires by resprouting. Recent work at Quail Ridge Reserve suggests that trees and resprouts growing sympatrically undergo divergent physiological changes throughout the year. In particular, they differ in how their water use efficiency changes throughout the year, which seems to be driven by changes in water loss and not changes in assimilation. In an attempt to quantify the sinks of carbon, we are currently developing methods for estimating fruit set at the canopy level for plants at Quail Ridge Reserve. We would like to extend these methods to populations of H. arbutifolia growing throughout the Floristic Province to determine whether differences in reproductive output may be related to either climate or ecotypic differentiation.

Visit #19416 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

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Under Project # 20664 | Research

Environmental effects on fruit set in toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)

graduate_student - University of California, Berkeley

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Group of 2 Graduate Student Oct 16 - 18, 2009 (3 days)
Adam Roddy Oct 16 - 18, 2009 (3 days)

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Highlands Camp 3 Oct 16 - 18, 2009
Whale Point Researcher Cabin 3 Oct 16 - 18, 2009