toward a conservation physiology of californian flora: assessing drought vulnerability across species and ecosystems

Research Project | 2017

Toward a conservation physiology of Californian flora: assessing drought vulnerability across species and ecosystems

Awardee: Camila Medeiros

Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Funding Source: La Kretz Center Graduate Grant

My project aims to quantify the vulnerability of woody plant species to drought in key ecosystem types of California and model species’ relative sensitivities to drought under future climate chance scenarios.