Mudder-built monitoring tower #US-BFS offers rare, year-round insights into how a #SoCal drought-adapted, urban ecosystem "breathes" across seasons by tracking the daily exchange of CO2, water vapor & energy between its surrounding native #CoastalSageScrub ecosystem & LA's atmosphere. uqr.to/us-bfs.
An Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) revealing a small glimpse of its iridescent feathers.
Photographed in San Diego County, CA
November 2021
#annashummingbird #calypteanna #zoology #ornithology #sandiegocounty #california #coastalsagescrub #wildlifephotography #canon 🪶
We are honored to host the next Plant Walk of @cnps_sgm on Feb. 16, 10-11 AM, at Arroyo Seco Woodland & Wildlife Park in South Pasadena
#cnps #Californianativeplants #wildflowers #habitat #coastalsagescrub #oakwoodland #oak #coastliveoak #sustainablegardening #habitatgardening #communitystewardship
Local plant life along my hike last Saturday. We’ve had no precipitation here in Southern California. The plants are struggling. From left to right, beaver tail cactus pad, California buckwheat, sand aster, unknown remnant of last year’s bloom
#nativeplants #coastalsagescrub #botany #photography
We’ve had no rain since last winter and spring. Yet the plants know that it’s time to start growing here in So Cal. This is a cobweb thistle seedling coming up beneath its dead parent. 🌿 #californianativeplants #coastalsagescrub
Blooming buckwheat (white and pink fluffy globes of tiny flowers) and (orange) monkey flower within coastal sage scrub community, a greenish Pacific Ocean in the background. Additional land mass is visible at the top of the photo.
Blooming buckwheat at max floof, along with monkey flower and the glorious Pacific.
#SundaySetting
#CoastalSageScrub #ILoveCSS
Day 55 of #JRBPVirtualTour! #Coyotebrush (#Baccharis #pilularis subsp. #consanguinea), found primarily in #coastal #chaparral. #Shrub in the #Asteraceae family. Known as a secondary #pioneerplant in #plantcommunities such as #coastalsagescrub and chaparral. Pics @alicegcummings
#Biogeography lecture tomorrow in #GEO121 so I’m going to wear my #CoastalSageScrub t-shirt. 99% sure I bought this at #CalGnat95 conference (California gnatcatcher) in Riverside, CA. 🐦🤓🌱
