44th Annual Southern California Botanists Symposium
Botany in the Hot Seat: Vegetation, Fire and Climate Change

Pomona College
Seaver Auditorium, Claremont, CA

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(online early bird registration is $47 to account for paypal fee)

Schedule for 2018

• Registration begins at 8:00am

• 9:00am Welcome by SCB President Justin Wood

• 9:15am Stephen Davis, Peperdine University,
  Responses of Chaparral to Southern California's Changing Climate

• 10:00am Carla D'Antonio, UC Santa Barbara
  Chaparral Vulnerability and the Complexities of Restoration

• 10:45am Break

• 11:00am Jan Beyers, U.S. Forest Service,
  The Challenges of Chaparral Restoration.

• 11:45am Josue Campos, Recon Native Plants
  Ex Situ Seed Production for Conservation and Restoration

• 12:15pm Lunch

• 1:45pm Scott Abella, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  Long-Term Recovery from Wildfire Across a Regional Set of 32 Fires in the Mojave Desert

• 2:30pm Edward G. Bobich,California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  Responses of Southern California Black Walnut (Juglans californica) to Fire and Extreme Drought: Survival in a Changing Climate

• 3:15pm Break

• 3:30pm Sarah Kimball, University of California, Irvine
  Resistance and Resilience: Ten Years of Monitoring Shrub and Prairie Communities in Orange County

• 4:15pm Michele Slaton, U.S. Forest Service Region 5
  Tree Mortality, Drought, and Early Detection of Stress in the Southern Sierra Nevada and Southern California.

Mixer to follow at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 5:00pm to 8:00pm