California boasts many diverse and unique inhabitants — and that includes its plants, 40 percent of which are found nowhere else in the world.
But the brewing menace of climate change threatens many species in the state’s rich flora, suggests a new analysis that models how the distribution of plants in the state may change over the next 100 years.
The bleakest end projected by climate modeling shows two-thirds of California’s flora endangered by the end of the century, the researchers report in the June 25 PLoS One.