San Diego Botanical Society
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Second Meeting:
Friday 13 September 2019, 2:00–5:00 PM
San Diego Natural History Museum
(Legler Benbough Exhibition Hall)
Parking: Parking is free, in lots adjacent to the San Diego Natural History Museum, or adjacent lots and streets of Balboa Park.
Location: Walk into main Museum entrance, go to desk for information/ticket, go to lowest floor: take stairs or elevator.
Optional Tour: (Note change in time below)
1:00-2:00 PM For those interested, Dr. Jon Rebman will be offering a tour of the SD Herbarium! Please RSVP to: jrebman@sdnhm.org
Meeting Agenda:
2:00-2:30 PM Arrival; food and drink provided.
2:30-3:30 PM Introduction; purpose of society; participant meet and greet.
3:30-4:30 PM Talks on San Diego botany: Abstracts. *=Speaker.
Bianca Bonilla* and Sula Vanderplank. Botanical Community Development Initiatives.
Border Bioblitzing: Community science en la frontera.
Ryan Buck* and Lluvia Flores-Rentería. Department of Biology, San Diego State University.
Interspecies Hybridization in Pinyon Pines.
Elsa Cleland* and Liz Ryan. Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Section, University of California San Diego.
Clinal variation in Eschscholzia californica: using the history of past selection in response to climate to predict adaptation
and persistence with future climate change.
Michelle Cloud-Hughes*. Desert Solitaire Botany and Ecological Restoration, San Diego, CA.
Cholla changes: Recent updates in Cylindropuntia taxonomy in southern California and Baja.
José Waterton* and Elsa Cleland. Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Section, University of California San Diego.
Why not be early? Ecological factors maintain genetic variation in germination time of Stipa pulchra.
4:30-4:55 PM Questions: talks and general; plans for the future (2020 meeting: Time and site to be determined)
4:55 PM Open invitation to meet at Rooftop Bar of SDNHM. Take elevator to top floor. Buy your own food/drinks.
(Alternative location: Panama 66, an easy 5 minute walk from Museum.)
