Challenges of conserving plant communities in a changing world

• This online event is a production of the Atlanta Botanical Garden as part of their ongoing Science Cafe Series.
• It is free and open to the public, but advance Zoom registration at the following link is required to attend: https://bit.ly/3kHp11L

Loy Xingwen, Incoming Conservation Ecology Coordinator
Atlanta Botanical Garden

Plant conservation programs have traditionally focused on understanding and managing populations of imperiled species. However, conservationists have been extending their purview to include inter-species interactions, and delving into the realm of ‘community ecology’. In this talk, Loy will be discussing why community ecology matters to plant conservation, and how climate change may be threatening plant diversity by altering inter-species interactions. He will be drawing from his research experience on annual wildflowers found in the Mediterranean woodlands of Western Australia, as well as his most recent work conducted in montane meadows of the Colorado Rockies

About the speaker
Loy Xingwen is a community ecologist who studies how human activities impact plant and pollinator diversity. Loy has recently successfully defended his Ph.D. and will be conferred his doctorate degree in May this year. He will then be joining Atlanta Botanical Garden as the new Conservation Ecology Coordinator.