Presentation Year

2022

Depreciated Participant

Alex Rumbel Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Cameron Jones Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Dr. Oscar Vargas Biological Sciences Faculty, Ava Guillen Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Brittany Long Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, George Sabbagh Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Luis Angel Gonzalez Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Stephanie Sandoval Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Tristan Roach Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Victor Garcia Balderas Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student, Zoe Draheim Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The California Floristic Province (CFP) is a global hot-spot of biodiversity. Creating a database of plant distributions for the CFP is pivotal to define species’s conservation status. Students associated with the Herbarium used R to create precise polygons for the range of 62 species in the CFP. We accessed publicly occurrence repositories for our target species and used a protocol to remove outliers. Using these cleaned coordinates, we created polygons of the ranges and inferred the area in square kilometers. This information was used to create a preliminary histogram for CFP plant distribution, highlighting a high percentage of plant taxa with ranges smaller than Humboldt county.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

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1099

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