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References
• Bauder , E . T . & McMillan , S . ( 1998 ). Current distribution and historical extent of vernal pools in southern California and northern Baja California , Mexico . Pages 56-70 in Witham , C . W ., Bauder , E . T ., Delk , D ., Ferren , W . R . J ., & Ornduff , R . ( Eds .) ( 1998 ). Ecology , conservation , and management of vernal pool ecosystems , proceedings from a 1996 conference . California Native Plant Society , Sacramento , CA .
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• Escudero-Castelán , N ., Arteaga , M . C . & Guilliams , C . M . ( 2014 ). Diversidad de anostracos de las pozas vernales en el Norte de Baja California . First Annual International Symposium of Environmental Biology , CICESE . Ensenada , B . C ., Mexico .
• Guilliams , C . M ., Hasenstab-Lehman , K ., Delgadillo Rodríguez , J . & Baldwin , B . G . in review . Vernal pool landscapes of Baja California , México : an ongoing project to assess vernal pool loss and protect what remains .
• Holland , R . F . ( 2011 ). Great Valley vernal pool distribution rephotorevised 2005 in Alexander , D . G , & Schlising , R . A . ( Eds .) Research and Recovery in Vernal Pool Landscapes . Studies from the Herbarium , Number 16 , California State University , Chico , CA .
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Some of the Baja California Vernal Pool Conservation Team . Photo : Dr . María Clara Arteaga .
Maritime succulent scrub on Colonet Mesa , adjacent to vernal pools . Photo : Seth Kauppinen .
• Keeley , J . & Zedler , P . H . ( 1998 ). Global distribution of vernal pools in Witham , C . W ., Bauder , E . T ., Belk , D ., Ferren , W . R . Jr ., & Ornduff , R . ( Eds .). Ecology , Conservation , and Management of Vernal Pool Ecosystems - Proceedings from a 1996 Conference . California Native Plant Society , Sacramento , CA .
About Matt Guilliams
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Matt is a botanist at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden , where he holds the Ken and Shirley Tucker Plant Systematist endowed chair and is the Curator of the Clifton F . Smith Herbarium .
His research focuses on themes in plant evolutionary biology , including the inference of evolutionary relationships using morphological and molecular data , biogeographic inference , and study of adaptive radiation in the California Floristic Province . In Baja California , Matt has been active as the leader of a long-term project focusing on the study and conservation of vernal pool ecosystems in the region .
Matt completed a bachelor ’ s degree in Biology at San Diego State University , worked for various private and public organizations as a botanist , and then completed a master ’ s degree in Evolutionary Biology ( also at SDSU ). Matt completed his dissertation at the University of California Berkeley in 2015 .
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