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California Floristic Province

Endemic Animal

The Roosevelt elk is the largest of the surviving subspecies of elk in N. America. From late spring to early fall, Roosevelt elk feed on herbaceous plants, such as grasses. During winter months, they feed on woody plants, including highbush cranberry, elderberry, devil's club, and seedlings.

Endemic Plant

Socioeconomic Conditions

Giant sequoia is a coniferous evergreen found in scattered groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas of California. The giant sequoia is the largest of all trees. Its low quality wood has been instrumental in saving the giant sequoias from destruction.

California's economy is the largest in all of the U.S. It supplies 1/2 of all the agricultural products consumed in the U.S. each year. California also has the fastest growing population in the U.S.

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Type of Ecosystem

Decreasing Biodiversity

This hot-spot has a Mediterranean ecosystem and is characterized by hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. The region contains a wide variety of ecosystems, including sagebrush steppe, prickly pear shrubland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, juniper-pine woodland, alpine forest, riparian forest, cypress forests, mixed evergreen forests, Douglas fir forests, sequoia forests, redwood forests, coastal dunes, and salt marshes.

A little under 37 percent of the total land area of the California Floristic Province is under official protection. Human activity in the area has greatly increased. Urbanization, water pollution, expansion of large-scale agriculture, mining and oil extraction, deforestation, and increasing use of off-road vehicles pose direct threats to the ecosystem.

Location

Protecting the Province

The hotspot includes two of the oldest national parks established in the United States: Yosemite National Park and Sequoia National Park. In the past twenty years, California has spent more money on conservation and set aside more habitat for protection than any other state. Nonetheless, the wealthiest state of the United States serves as an important reminder that biodiversity loss and the lack adequate protection for unique and threatened ecosystems is not just a problem in developing countries.

The California Floristic Province includes most of the state of California, a part of southwest Oregon, a very small bit of western Nevada, and a portion of northern Baja California.

Interesting Facts

Works Cited

  • The hotspot has a higher level of endemism in plants than animals.
  • The state of California is home to an estimated 28,000 species of insects, 32 percent of which are endemic.
  • More species of birds breed in this region than anywhere else in the United States.
  • Several mammal species once found in the hotspot have been extirpated from California. These include the grizzly bear, grey wolf, jaguar, and bison.

"California Floristic Province." CEPF.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.

"Giant Sequoia." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.

Hogan, C. Michael, and Conservation International. "Biological Diversity in the California Floristic Province." Eoearth.com. Ed. Mark McGinley. N.p., 16 Dec. 2009. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.

"Roosevelt Elk." BioWeb. N.p., 2007. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.

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