History of Inland Salt Marsh Flora

When

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 7:00pm

What

Talk

Where

Cornell Botanic Gardens' Nevin Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca AND Zoom/Recording

Who

Alex Petzke, Ecology Dept., Environmental Biology, SUNY ESF

Description

Topic: Changes in the flora and extent of inland salt marsh habitat over time. Using herbarium specimens he will map out where there used to be concentrations of halophytes and infer historical salt marsh extent to some degree using that, plus the historical flora of now degraded sites.