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California Floristic Province

California Floristic Province. By : Matt Brill Matt Carmen Janice Jackson Period 6/7. Overview of Hot Spot. Location : The California Floristic Province is located on the West Coast of the deserts and in small parts of Oregon and Baja, California.

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California Floristic Province

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  1. California Floristic Province By: Matt Brill Matt Carmen Janice Jackson Period 6/7

  2. Overview of Hot Spot • Location: The California Floristic Province is located on the West Coast of the deserts and in small parts of Oregon and Baja, California. • Climate: Hot and dry in the summer, cool and wet in the winters. • Population density to extinct species: 121:2 • Contains a wide variety of ecosystems: • sagebrush steppe, • prickly pear shrub land, • coastal sage scrub • juniper-pine woodland

  3. Human Impacts • Human activities and development have a huge impact on this Hot Spot: • urbanization • Pollution • habitat encroachment • Oil extraction • increasing use of off-road vehicles • Conversion of natural lands to agricultural fields • Strip-mining (removal of overburden to access buried deposits of useful material) • Today, about 25% of the original vegetation of the California Floristic Province remains in more or less pristine condition.

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