Plant demography Archives - Center for Plant Conservation

30, Flirty, and Thriving… and Evolving: New Approaches to Demography Studies After Three Decades

Denver Botanic Gardens has been conducting demographic monitoring studies on rare plants across Colorado for 30 years. The tried-and-true methods have persisted for decades, but new approaches and technology have greatly improved the analyses we can conduct with the data, the way we collect data, and the time it takes to input data. Case studies […]

Linking Rare Plant Demography and Land Management Practices to Reduce Extinction Risk in Multiple Species in the Southeastern United States

Land management decisions are often implemented on perceived optimal environmental conditions, follow a habitat-based approach, or fail to account for climate change climate change which can lead to practices detrimental to population dynamics of rare plants and increase risk of extinction. Prescribed fire, canopy thinning, and managing herbivores are common management practices and are frequently […]

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