Reproductive success of the plants of concern in the Chicago area 2020
In the field and the lab
Ecology, Population Biology, Reproductive Biology, Labwork
Plants of Concern is a collaboration between citizen scientists, natural resource managers and researchers from the Chicago Botanic Garden to collect data on rare plant populations in the Chicago region. Some of the populations monitored have been declining without a clear reason. One of the hypothesis is that the populations are genetically eroded, due to historical habitat loss and fragmentation in the area. Genetically eroded populations experience a loss of reproductive fitness, that can be measured in different steps of the reproductive process, scubas as fruit set, seed set, seed viability, etc. This project will assess the reproductive fitness of some POC' species to identify populations candidate to further genetic augmentation.
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Fieldwork Conditions
Bees, Insects, Poison Ivy, Water/Mud
