Boston Flora

Tag: Plant Conservation

  • Monday, December 15, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Climate Change and Plant Conservation: Is Managed Relocation an Option?

    Join Jesse Bellemare, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, on Monday, December 15, from 7 – 8:30 pm at the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum, as he discusses Climate Change and Plant Conservation: Is Managed Relocation an Option? Climate change is projected to be one of the top threats to biodiversity in coming decades. Species with small geographic ranges, often called “endemics”, may be at especially high risk of extinction because unsuitable climatic conditions could develop rapidly across the entirety of their ranges. If such species are unable to disperse long distances on their own to follow suitable climatic conditions, it has been proposed that human-assisted colonization or “managed relocation” might be an option of last resort to avoid extinctions. With this approach, climate-threatened species would be intentionally translocated to new regions as conditions deteriorated within their native ranges. Dr. Bellemare will speak about his research to better understand how the distribution and diversity of these rare species is related to past climate change, such as the Ice Ages, and to predict how the species might respond to the threat of modern anthropogenic climate change. Will managed relocation of species be a viable solution to prevent rare species extinction? Register at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1386&DayPlannerDate=12/15/2014. $5 for Arboretum members, $10 for nonmembers.  Image of New England Blazing Star from www.nantucketconservation.org.

  • Monday, August 17 – It’s a Small World

    It’s a Small World: Color Microscopy and Macro Photography

    by Julie McIntosh Shapiro
    Aug 17–September 10, 2009

    Photographs of visual secrets, macro and micro documentation, these images bring out a love of looking and watching at close range. Ms. Shapiro has spent the last fifteen years using the close up photographic techniques of macroscopy and microphotography to present objects not easily seen with the naked eye. Ultimately, these visual investigations provide hidden insight into things unknown, overlooked and magnificent.

    Julie McIntosh Shapiro is principal of Garden PHI, a photographically based horticulture research and design/build company. She was principal photographer for a digital database project on imaging seeds for the Arnold Arboretum. Her seed images are included in Harvard’s North American Plant Collections Consortium (NAPCC) specimens, Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) specimens, and a myriad of other rare, endangered, and native plant collections. Her work is published in the newly revised publication about Reverend John Fiala, Lilacs: A Gardener’s Encyclopedia (2008).  This exhibit is sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum and takes place at The Landscape Institute, 30 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, MA.  For information on times, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.