Stress-Adapted Native Plant Communities as Templates for Highly Disturbed Landscape Sites

NDAL event with Dr. Donald J. Leopold & Tim Toland. Native plant communities can be found on remarkably difficult sites, e.g., highly alkaline, saline, acidic, droughty, and flooded. In the Northeast U.S. these communities include alvars, dunes, acidic pine barrens, inland salt marshes, marl fens, and other wetlands. A subset of these natural assemblages can be used to create sustainable landscapes on human-made sites that have similarly hostile conditions. Through a pair of presentations ending with an informal conversation and Q&A session, our presenters will discuss the ecology of these assemblages and how they can be adapted to a wide variety of “difficult site” projects from residential to urban to highly degraded industrial landscapes.

Time: 18:00 BST

https://learning.ndal.org/courses/august-19-2021-stress-adapted