[PCA] PCA Meeting Wed. November 8

[Prescott, Leah]

*The next Plant Conservation Alliance meeting is on Wednesday, November 8th​

​from 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET.*



*"Using community phylogenetics to understand species distributions and
responses to climate change: an example with Florida ferns”*


The PCA is excited to welcome Dr. Emily Sessa to speak with us about her
research at The University of Florida (UFL) from 2:00-3:00 pm ET, on
November 8th. Research in the Sessa lab focuses broadly on plant
systematics and understanding the evolutionary and ecological processes
that shape plant diversity. Lab members work on a number of projects around
this central theme, with a strong emphasis on the seed-free vascular
plants: ferns and lycophytes. The primary question motivating much of our
research is: What ecological and evolutionary processes have generated, and
maintain, fern and lycophyte diversity on earth? Emily will discuss
community phylogenetic analyses, which are a set of methods that can be
used to understand how plants assemble into communities by taking into
account their evolutionary history. She will use the ferns found in the
state of Florida as an example, and discuss how her lab is using
phylogenetic trees and climate modeling to understand where ferns are found
now and how their distributions may change in the future.



***If you are in the Washington, DC area and would like to attend this
meeting in person, please email Leah Prescott (lprescott at blm.gov
<http://blm.gov>) by COB Friday, November 3rd***



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*UPCOMING PCA MEETINGS*

January 10, 2018: Jeannette Whitton, Director University of British
Columbia Herbarium, Canada's SARA & COSEWIC

March 14, 2018: Margaret O'Gorman - President of the Wildlife Habitat
Council



*More about Dr. Emily Sessa*

Emily is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University
of Florida, and her work focuses on basic science and understanding global
plant biodiversity. She earned her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from
Cornell University in 2005 and her PhD in Botany from Cornell University in
2012. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Arizona
before joining the University of Florida faculty in 2013. Her research
interests include plant systematics and evolution, phylogenetics,
historical biogeography, diversification processes, physiological ecology,
functional traits, community assembly, and reticulate evolution, and most
of her work centers on ferns and lycophytes.

-- 
Leah Prescott
Bureau of Land Management
Plant Conservation Program Assistant
202-912-7232

National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy>
Plant Conservation Alliance <http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/>
Seeds of Success
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection>
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