Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CA-CESU)
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California
337 Mulford Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
email: jshevock [at] nature [dot] berkeley [dot] edu

California Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
email: jshevock [at] calacademy [dot] org

Professional History: Jim began his career in 1979 as the Botanist/Ecologist for the USDA Forest Service, Sequoia National Forest. In 1984 he accepted at 2-year assignment to assist the California Department of Fish & Game as Botanist of its Natural Diversity Database. He was promoted in 1986 to Regional Botanist for the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, stationed in San Francisco, where he administered the sensitive and rare plant program across 18 national forests in California. In 1998 Jim was selected to serve as the Associate Regional Director for Resources Stewardship & Science for the USDI National Park Service, Pacific West Region, headquartered in Oakland, California. In 2004 he became the National Park Service Research Coordinator for the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CA-CESU) based at University of California, Berkeley.

Jim has also been a research associate of the Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, since 1983, and a research associate at the University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, since 1996. He has served as President, Corresponding Secretary, and Council Member for the California Botanical Society, and as Vice President for Plant Programs with the California Native Plant Society. Jim has traveled to the Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan (ROC), Thailand, Australia, Korea, and Japan to pursue professional and research interests.

Research Interests: Continuing from his Master's Thesis, A vascular flora of Lloyd Meadows Basin, Sequoia National Forest, Tulare County, California, Jim’s research focused for many years on vascular plant floristics and documentation of little-explored areas, particularly the southern Sierra Nevada of California. Around 1997 his interests shifted from flowering plants to bryophytes with an emphasis in bryogeography and floristics. Among the results of this work, Jim discovered over 20 vascular plant taxa and three bryophytes in California as new to science, eight of which have since been named in his honor (Allium shevockii, Astragalus shevockii, Eriogonum breedlovei var. shevockii, Heterotheca shevockii, Lomatium shevockii, Mimulus shevockii, Orthotrichum shevockii, and Schizymenium shevockii). Recently, Jim completed the field-collecting component for developing a bryoflora of the southern Sierra Nevada, and published a moss flora of the City and County of San Francisco, California.

A growing knowledge of mosses has also come with expanding geographic interests. Current projects include developing a bryoflora of Death Valley National Park with park botanist Dana York, and of the central and southern Sierra Nevada. Descriptions and publication of new moss discoveries are ongoing. Future expeditions are planned to work on the Bryoflora of China Project in association with the California Academy of Sciences and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Jim's most recent interest is in developing a revised, specimen-based catalogue of Nevada mosses in collaboration with Dr. Lloyd Stark (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and John Spence. This multi-year collaborative project will rely in part on the acquisition of moss specimens via volunteers of the Nevada Native Plant Society.

Barneby, R.C. and J.R. Shevock. 1987. Astragalus ertterae (Fabaceae), a new species for the southern Sierras Nevada. Aliso 11(4):585-588.

Bartel, J.A. and J.R. Shevock 1983. Dudleya calcicola (Crassulaceae), a new species for the southern Sierra Nevada. Madroño 30(4):210-216.

_____.  1989. Dudleya cymosa subsp. costafolia (Crassulaceae), a new subspecies from the southern Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, California. Aliso 12(4):701-704.

Ertter, B. and J.R. Shevock. 1993. Snow-wreath and its relatives in the garden. In Shasta snow-wreath: a new genus for California. Fremontia 22(3):10-11.

Heckard, L.R. and J.R. Shevock. 1985. Mimulus norrisii (Scrophulariaceae), a new species from the southern Sierra Nevada. Madroño 32(3):179-185.

Millar, C.I., M. Barbour, D. Elliott-Fisk, J. Shevock, and W. Woolfenden. 1996. Significant Natural Areas. In: D.C. Erman, ed. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Final Report to Congress, Vol. 2 Assessments and Scientific Basis for Management Options, Chapter 29: 839-853. Davis: Univ. of Calif., Centers for Water and Wildland Resources.

Muñoz, J., J.R. Shevock, and D. Toren. 2002. Grimmia serrana (Bryopsida, Grimmiaceae) a new species from California, U.S.A. Journal of Bryology 24:143-146.

Norris, D.H and J. R. Shevock. 2004a. Contribution toward a bryoflora of California. I. A specimen-based catalogue of mosses. Madroño 51(1):1-131.

______. 2004b. Contribution toward a bryoflora of California. II. A key to the mosses.  Madroño 51(2):133-269.

Quezel, P. and J.R. Shevock. 1982. Essai de mise en parallele de la zonation altitudinale des structures forestieres de vegetation entre la Californie meridionale et le pourtour mediterraneen. Ecologia Mediterranea

Reveal, J.L. and J. R. Shevock. 1989. A new variety of Eriogonum prattenianum (Polygonaceae: Eriogonideae) from the southern Sierra Nevada. Phytologia 66(3):249-250.

Shevock, J.R. 1976. Rare, endangered, and geographically interesting plants of the Santa Ana Mountains, Cleveland National Forest. Sem. in Phys. Geog., CSU, Long Beach. 14 pp.

_____. 1977. Sensitive plant species for the Sequoia National Forest and adjacent regions. USDA Forest Service, Porterville, CA [with yearly supplements 1978-84].

_____. 1978. Vascular flora of Lloyd Meadows Basin, Sequoia National Forest, Tulare County, California. MS Thesis. CSU, Long Beach.

_____. 1984a. Rediscription and distribution of Muilla coronata (Liliaceae). Aliso 10(4):621-627.

_____. 1984b. Distribution of Forsellesia nevadensis (Crossosomataceae) in the southern Sierra Nevada of Kern County, California. Crossosoma 9(7):2-5.

_____. 1988a. New, rare and geographically interesting plants along the crest of the southern Sierra Nevada, 161-166. In C.A. Hall, Jr., ed. Plant biology of eastern California. Natural History of the White-Inyo Range Symposium, vol. 2. U.C. White Mountain Research Station, California State University, Los Angeles.

_____.1988b. Native plant diversity and special area designations on the national forests in California. Fremontia  16(2):21-27.

_____. 1989. Review of Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California (4^th ed.) by J.P. Smith and K. Berg. Fremontia 16(4):30-31.

_____. 1990. Noteworthy collections from California (new occurrences for vascular plants from the Sierra Nevada). Madroño 37(1):62-64.

_____. 1993a. Aceraceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993b. Cornaceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993c. Crossosomataceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993d. Myricaceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993e. Rutaceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993f. Staphyleaceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993g. Styracaceae. In J. Hickman, ed. Jepson Manual, higher plants of California. U.C. Press, Berkeley.

_____. 1993h. How plants get their names and why the names sometimes change. Fremontia 22(1):19-24.

_____. 1993i. How rare is the Shasta snow-wreath? In: Shasta snow-wreath: a new genus for California. Fremontia 22(3):7-10.

_____. 1995. Overview of the USDA Forest Service. Madroño 42(2):251-255.

_____. 1996a. Status of rare and endemic plants. In: D.C. Erman, ed. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Final Report to Congress, Vol. 2 Assessments and Scientific Basis for Management Options, Chapter 24: 691-707. Davis: Univ. of Calif., Centers for Water and Wildland Resources.

_____. 1996b. Plant diversity in the Kern River Region. Field Notes. Kern Res. Center 5(4): 1,3.

_____. 1997. Alpine and alpine-like plants in the southern Sierra Nevada. In B.C. O’Brien, L.C. Fuentes and L.F. Newcombe, eds. Symposium Proceedings. Out of the wild and into the garden. California’s horticulturally significant plants. April 30-May 2, 1992. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Occasional Paper No. 1., Claremont, CA.

_____. 1998. Bryophytes: little forests among the trees. Fremontia 26(2):3-8.

_____. 2000. Two mosses new to North America with Southern Hemisphere affinities. Evansia 17(3):97-98.

_____. 2002. Bryophytes: the miniature forests overlooked across Nevada. Nevada Native Plant Society Bulletin 28(2):5-9.

_____. 2003. Moss floristics and geography in California. Fremontia 31(3):10-17.

_____ and L. Constance. 1979. A new species of Oreonana, a genus of snow-adapted Umbelliferae. Madroño 26(3):128-134.

_____ and L.L. Norris. 1981. The mountain parsleys of California. Fremontia 9(3):22-25.

_____ and D.W. Taylor 1987. Plant explorations in California, the frontier is still here. Pp. 91-98. In T.S. Elias, ed. Rare and endangered plants, their conservation and management. Symposium Proceedings. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento.

_____ and L. Hennessy 1987. The California Natural Diversity Data Base; a common denominator. Pp 181-184. In T.S. Elias, ed. Rare and endangered plants, their conservation and management. Symposium Proceedings. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento.

_____, B. Ertter, and J.D. Jokerst 1989. Monardella beneolens (Lamiaceae), a new species from the crest of the southern Sierra Nevada, California. Madroño 36(4):271-279.

_____, J.A. Bartel, and G. Allen. 1990. Distribution, ecology and taxonomy of Erythronium (Liliaceae) from the Sierra Nevada of California. Madroño 37(4):261-273.

_____ and G. Allen. 1991. A new variety of Erythronium citrinum (Liliaceae) from the Scott Mountains of Northwest California. Phytologia 71(2):101-103.

_____, B. Ertter, and D.W. Taylor. 1992. Neviusia cliftonii (Rosaceae: Kerrieae), an interesting new relict species from California. Novon 2(4):285-289.

_____ and D. Toren 2001. A catalogue of mosses for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Madroño 48(1):1-16.

Skinner, M.W., D.P. Tibor, R.L. Bittman, B. Ertter, T.S. Ross, S. Boyd, A.C. Sanders, J.R. Shevock, and D.W. Taylor. 1995. Research needs for conserving California’s rare plants. Madroño 42(2):211-241.

York, D., J.R. Shevock, and J.C. Semple. 1996. Heterotheca monarchensis. In J.C. Semple. A revision of Heterotheca sect. Phyllotheca (Nutt.) Harms (Composite:Astereae). Univ. of Waterloo Biology Series No. 37. 164 pps.

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