Map of High-Priority Preservation Sites (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Map of High-Priority Preservation Sites

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The top 50 highest-priority sites for preserving California's native plants under three measures of biodiversity: genetic uniqueness (divergence), historic speciation rate (diversification) and independent evolutionary history (survival). Areas high in all three measures are in black.

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Brent Mishler lab, UC Berkeley

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