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There is strong support for three major haplotype groups and a Transverse Range break in P. cadaverina that is concordant with breaks found in numerous other taxa.
Unlike most California ranges, which run north-south, Ojai sits within a transverse range running east-west.
This passerine is primarily found across the Southwestern United States and much of the interior of Mexico, south to the transverse mountain range, and to the Pacific coast to the southwest of the transverse range.
But with the establishment in the late 1960s and early 1970s of three state parks -- Point Mugu, Malibu Creek and Topanga -- the equation started to shift, and the beauty of this transverse range, rising between ocean and valley, inspired the dream of a larger, less guarded wilderness, unmarked by no trespassing signs, security gates and walled compounds.
The eastern Transverse Range haplotypes (San Gabriel and San Jacinto Mts., as sampled for this species) were clustered in two separate groups; however, each had a surprising inclusion.
Taxon sampling was focused in the Transverse Range region but also extended into surrounding areas to the north in the Santa Lucia Mts. and south into the Peninsular Ranges.
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The kink is called the Transverse Ranges.
Bioregional distribution: South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Channel Islands, Transverse Ranges.Varieties intergrade.
Bioregional distribution: San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, Western Transverse Ranges.
The Coast Ranges and the Peninsular Ranges are generally smaller than the Transverse Ranges.
Both the Coast and the Transverse ranges were formed by plate collisions.
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