Origins of Plant Diversity in the California Floristic Province

By B. G. Baldwin. 2014

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Recent biogeographic and evolutionary studies have led to improved understanding of the origins of exceptionally high plant diversity in the California Floristic Province (CA-FP). Spatial analyses of Californian plant diversity and endemism reinforce the importance of geographically isolated areas of high topographic and edaphic complexity as floristic hot spots, in which the relative influence of factors promoting evolutionary divergence and buffering of lineages against extinction has gained increased attention. Molecular phylogenetic studies spanning the flora indicate that immediate sources of CA-FP lineages bearing endemic species diversity have been mostly within North America—especially within the west and southwest—even for groups of north temperate affinity, and that most diversification of extant lineages in the CA-FP has occurred since the mid-Miocene, with the transition toward summer-drying. Process-focused studies continue to implicate environmental heterogeneity at local or broad geographic...

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Self-Supervised Pretraining of Transformers for Satellite Image Time Series Classification (2020, background): “The state’s varied topography and climate have given rise to a remarkable plant diversity that cannot be found in any other state of the United States [58].”
• Intercontinental disjunctions between eastern Asia and western North America in vascular plants highlight the biogeographic importance of the Bering land bridge from late Cretaceous to Neogene (2016, background): “There was a general trend toward a cooler and drier climate since the Oligocene or at least the Middle Miocene in western North America associated with expansion of drought tolerant elements in western North America (Axelrod, 1958, 1992; Wolfe & Schorn, 1989; Baldwin, 2014).”