The Global Change Conservation Lab at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Welcome to the Global Change Conservation Lab at the Missouri Botanical Garden. We use quantitative tools to understand nature and protect biodiversity in a changing world.

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Herbivory destabilizes plant intraspecific diversity (congrats, Mia!)

Congratulations to Mia, who published the results of an undergraduate research project on how herbivory can destabilize plant polymorphism! Typically, it is expected that…

Herbarium specimens reveal non-native spread across the tallgrass prairie over the past 130 years

Patterns of invasion are almost always studied across small areas and for short time periods. In an exciting new article, we show that non-native plants of Missouri’s…

Bees prefer complex gardens, bothered less by the city

In a recent publication, along with other colleagues, former lab REU student Evelyn Guerrero and Adam found that across an urban-suburban-rural gradient that native bees…