… On a bright, sunny Saturday in June, more than 1,500 people came to see just what was happening inside the renovated paint store along Ogden Avenue in the North … it’s everything a community could ask for. I’m just so happy the Garden has decided to invest in a community like North Lawndale,” said Scott. Here’s a look inside the Farm, which … admired giant lettuce leaves growing in the Windy City Harvest Youth Farm: a space for teens to learn—and earn—through sustainable growing, healthy cooking and eating, and farm-stand …
Type: Blog
… ecology remain poorly understood, which greatly limits conservation and management efforts. To help fill in this knowledge gap, we’ve been investigating how floral food resources and climate contribute to variation in wild bee populations and community patterns. We’ve also been thinking a lot about …
Type: Research
… patterns. We use the mutualistic interactions among plants and pollinators as a model system to ask fundamental ecological questions about the importance of species interactions and to understand the ecological consequences of global change (e.g., climate change, biodiversity …
Type: Staff bio
… Be the first to grow these ten new plants—including Lunar Eclipse false indigo—just patented via the … Plant Research: Baptisia ‘Lunar Eclipse’, for its flowers that change from creamy white to deep violet as the plant ages, and Baptisia ‘Sunny Morning’, for its profusion of yellow …
Type: Blog
… were collected from extensive coal and clay open-pit mines in Colombia and are about 58 to 60 million years old, from the Paleocene epoch. During this period, the world was under a … most diverse and abundant component of the earliest rainforests in northern South America 58 to 60 million years ago. These legume fossils grew in the earliest rainforest of South America …
Type: Research
… and the 22-acre riparian buffer of the Skokie River. Management includes but not limited to, removal of invasive species, controlled burns, tree removal, planting local genotype plants, …
Type: Staff bio
… contains numerous economically important species (grown for timber and fruit) native to Southeast Asia. Two species, jackfruit and breadfruit, are cultivated throughout the tropics, …
Type: Research
… oak-maple woodlands (Chicago). We use both experimental and observational approaches to identify both local and ecosystem patterns of plant-mycorrhizal responses. (Egerton-Warburton, …
Type: Research
… Reintroductions are increasingly used to expand the occupancy and abundance of endangered species and thus reduce their extinction … microenvironment, mycorrhizal community, seedling genetic origin, nurse plants and transplant site affect seedling establishment and survival. This a collaborative project with Botanic …
Type: Research
… Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action at the Chicago Botanic Garden. I also work to support data analysis and visualization for projects with collaborators at the Chicago Botanic …
Type: Staff bio
