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A Flora Of Coyote Ridge And Flat, Inyo County, California, Martin Purdy
A Flora Of Coyote Ridge And Flat, Inyo County, California, Martin Purdy
CGU Theses & Dissertations
California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range contains a disproportionate share of the state’s plant diversity and is one of the most floristically diverse regions of its size in the United States. The high Sierra Nevada, in particular, has been identified as an important center of species richness and endemism within California. Anthropogenic climate warming is expected to disproportionately affect mountain ecosystems, and models have predicted serious habitat contraction and extirpation for many alpine plant taxa. A specimen-based inventory of the vascular and non-vascular plants of Coyote Ridge and Flat was conducted to establish baseline data for one such sensitive alpine and …
Cytogenetic Studies In The Genus Cymbidium, Donald E. Wimber
Cytogenetic Studies In The Genus Cymbidium, Donald E. Wimber
CGU Theses & Dissertations
The orchids known today make up one of the largest Angiospermous families in the world. Recent estimates place the number of genera at about 450 which estimates between 10,000 and 15,000 species (some authorities go as high as 20,000). They are without doubt one of the most highly specialized groups of green plants. Botanically the flowers are of more than passing interest for they deviate so distinctly from the norm of the Monocots. They are the possessors of a number of unique structures that are found in no other family of flowering plants.