About me
I'm a scientist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where I direct the William L. Brown Center, a team of researchers dedicated to the study of useful plants, understanding the relationships between humans, plants, and their environment, the conservation of plant species, and the preservation of traditional knowledge for the benefit of future generations.
My own research is on plant ecology and adaptive knowledge in the context of climate change. In particular, study how mountain plants and people respond to climate impacts; and how local knowledge of edible plants may affect food security.
Some recent and prior publications:
Wild foods are positively associated with diet diversity and child growth in a protected forest area of Madagascar (Iannotti et al. Current Developments in Nutrition 2024)
A framework for monitoring biodiversity in protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (Dalton et al. IUCN 2024)
Sustainable harvest of a threatened medicinal herb (Poudeyal et al Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 2024)
Scientistsʼ Warning on Climate Change and Medicinal Plants (Applequist et al. Planta Medica 2020)
Rapid Changes in Eastern Himalayan Alpine Flora with Climate Change (Salick, Fang, and Hart American Journal of Botany 2019).
