Red And Blue Listed Plants With Bill Flashcards
How many introduced vascular plants do we have
Around 500
How many vascular plants are rare?
617
Due to humans: 200
Naturally: 400
Either rare everywhere they occur or at the end of their ranges in bc
Which animal group is at highest risk of extirpation or special concern?
Freshwater fish 31%
Amphibians close at 25%
Reptiles 20%
What are some entities involved in red and blue listing species?
• CDC: Conservation Data Centre (BC) •
COSEWIC : Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada •
SARA:Species At Risk Act (Federal) •
NatureServe: non-profit conservation organization (links CDCs, Natural Heritage Conservation programs in North America)
What are some legal designations that protect species at risk?
Species at Risk Act (SARA), Schedule 1 (Federal)
Category’s of Species at Risk List (FRPA) (Provincial, GAR)
Wildlife Act (BC) – Endangered or Threatened (E=VI Marmot, Burrowing Owl, American White Pelican; T=Sea Otter); no plants listed
What are some non legal designation that protect species?
Committee On the Status of Endangered Wildlife In Canada (COSEWIC) “designations”
BC Conservation Data Center (CDC) “Red and Blue Lists”
What does COSEWIC do?
Designated species as extinct, extirpated, endangered, threatened and of special concern.
What does the bc conservation data Center do?
Rank species and ecological communities
Assign an list, red blue or yellow
Track species and community locations
Liaison with NatureServe, other natural heritage programs.
What are company responsibility with respect to the cdc?
Check listings for annual updates
Consult cdc “element occurrence” records
Send new species locations to the cdc
What are the cdc conservation status ranks?
X: extirpated or extinct
H: historical (not found in 50 yr)
1: endangered (5 or fewer locations)
2: threatened (6 to 20 locations. Very susceptible to impacts)
3: special concern (restricted range 20 to 100 locations. Locations separated by at least 1 k)
Roughly how many endangered plants occur in productive forests?
23 out of 92 red list
35 out of 94 blue list
Bills top 15
- White-top aster (Aster curtus)
- Rough-leaved aster (Aster radulinus)
- Deltoid balsamroot (Balsamorhiza deltoidea)
- Phantom orchid (Cephalanthera austiniae)
- Redstem spring beauty (Claytonia rubra ssp. depressa)
- Streambank lupine (Lupinus rivularis)
- White meconella (Meconella oregana)
Where is the greatest diversity in nature?
Terrestrial insects and marine invertebrates, vascular plants are second.
Where do allot of endangered plants occur?
Dry rocky meadows
What is a potential forest red list species ?
Phantom orchid.
Streambank lupine.
Pine broomrape: parasitizes oceanspray
