New Tools for Integrating Plant Ecology into the Healthy Ecosystem - Nov 14th Plant Conservation Alliance Meeting + Webinar

From the Plant Conservation Alliance - King Range National Conservation Area. Photo by Bob Wick.

On Wednesday November 14th Judy Venonsky presents “NEW TOOLS FOR INTEGRATING PLANT ECOLOGY INTO HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS” at the Plants Conservation Alliance monthly meeting. The meeting will take place from 2:00-3:00 pm ET at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and will be available via live webinar.

From the Plant Conservation Alliance website - “Identifying and addressing information gaps in plant databases to support emerging planting design technologies promoting biodiversity and ecological benefits” - Technological advancements, including databases, websites, and intuitive parametric design apps, show great promise to assist landscape professionals and home gardeners alike with simplifying the planting design process. However, information gaps need to be addressed in order to optimize the emerging data tools, particularly when it comes to selecting the most useful and available plants to enhance ecosystem services and sustainable design. Much great work has already been achieved through development of the national databases of the Biota of North America Project (BONAP), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) PLANTS, NatureServe, and the Ecoregional Revegetation Application (ERA). This panel discussion will address the current plant databases available to algorithms and applications and what efforts are needed to ensure consistent and vetted data on ecologically beneficial plants is readily accessible to emerging technologies and the general public.

Join the live WEBINAR: ** https://zoom.us/j/503296443 **       Meeting ID: 503 296 443”