Endangered Woolly Star Plant Needs Extreme Flooding to Thrive
Cal State Fullerton ecologist Darren R. Sandquist, and his former student, Rebecca R. Hernandez, now a professor at UC Davis, collaborated on a new study on the Santa Ana River woolly star, an endangered plant species. Their research was published in the Ecological Society of America journal, Ecosphere. The research effort aims to reduce ecological impacts, including urban development, to prevent extinction of the rare species that grows in local floodplains.