Title: Common Garden Studies for Herbaceous Plants: Lessons Learned from the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
Subject: Webinar
Start: 11:30 am - Jul 26, 2017
End: 11:30 am - Jul 26, 2017
Description: The fifth in the Eastern Seed Zone Forum's online lecture and discussion series aimed at providing both information about the creation of seed zones in general and a forum in which professionals, experts, and interested parties discuss the possibility of drafting seed zone guidelines for the eastern United States. In this webinar, Dr. Joan Walker, Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, will describe steps taken to develop the South Carolina Common Garden Study, including seed collection, plug production, garden establishment and design, selection of traits to measure, and data collection.