As climate and land-use change accelerate, so must efforts to preserve state’s plants
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 11:29“We just have a decade or two given the rapid pace of climate and land-use change,” said Brent Mishler, a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and director of the University and Jepson Herbaria. “Our opportunities, even 10 years down the line, are way more limited compared to what they are now. What we are going to save, we are going to save quickly. We don’t have forever to leisurely conserve California.”