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ghostsofevolution | Florida Torreya's California Cousin Has Clues for Ex Situ Plantings - pt 1 of 2 @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded February 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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00:29 - endangered species listing of Florida Torreya
00:36 - map of plantings made by Torreya Guardians
00:49 - emphasis on natural history observations
01:03 - map of California Torreya sites visited in 2005
01:36 - paleo history of genus Torreya in n. hemisphere
02:10 - map of 3 "peak glacial refuges" in southeastern USA
02:24 - why natural history observations in Calif help Florida Torreya
02:53 - brief background on Florida Torreya as "left behind"
03:21 - photos of diseased torreyas in native Florida habitat
03:32 - anthropogenic climate change as an additional stress
03:41 - north Georgia is where ESA officials have seed orchards
04:15 - 2004 Barlow & Martin advocacy paper re moving Torreya
04:49 - importance of finding northward limits of species viability
05:03 - goal: "to get this species out of the hospice wing" ("rewilding")
05:56 - "free-planting" seeds directly forest, while avoiding seed predation
06:21 - natural history observations indicate Torreya is a sub-canopy species
07:11 - CALIF SITE 1A - Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
11:43 - CALIF SITE 1B - a mountain ravine near Calistoga
15:15 - CALIF SITES 2 and 3 - Sequoia and Yosemite Natl Parks
21:24 - key conclusions re sun, moisture, and interspecies competition
21:42 - Torreya's big advantage for shade: a very big seed
22:12 - Torreya's ability to shift leaf arrangement based on sun or shade
22:27 - images of seedlings, often sprouting in deep shade
23:10 - genus Torreya often grows as double or triple stems
24:10 - similarity of Torreya and Hemlock (Tsuga) as subcanopy capable
24:36 - need to "reduce expectations" re growth speed in wild forest
25:22 - continue to part 2 for final Calif site: champion size trees

Continue to the final video segment: youtu.be/blpVt8pE8tY

Annotated list of all videos by Torreya Guardians:
torreyaguardians.org/video.html
Florida Torreyas California Cousin Has Clues for Ex Situ Plantings - pt 1 of 2Collapse of Culture and Ecology: The Death of Expectations (Connie Barlow and Terry Patten)3000 mile Great March for Climate Action 2014 - final day D.C.Hot Climate Women Scientists in Cool Places (2013)In Praise of Ferns (eastern North America) - photos by Connie Barlow, music by Sydney Jill LehmanCTL 3A - Lessons of Joshua Tree for Assisted MigrationPraise Darwin! (an evolution revival with Charlie Varon)Leonard Higgins - What Can I Do About Climate Change?Neil deGrasse Tyson sermon: Kinship with the Cosmos19a Florida Torreya to Brevard NC: 2016 Report (pt 1 of 2)CTL 7H - Assisted Migration ACT NOW! (Alligator Juniper)Two biggest Florida Torreya trees still thriving at Junaluska NC in 2016

Florida Torreya's California Cousin Has Clues for Ex Situ Plantings - pt 1 of 2 @ghostsofevolution

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