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 high-elevation plant ecology, climate change, and ethnobotany, and particularly the areas in which these three topics overlap. I often find myself working on projects involving rhododendrons, the eastern Himalaya, and quantitative ethnobotany.
Some recent publications I’ve contributed to
Indigenous Knowledge and Dynamics Among Himalayan Peoples, Vegetation, and Climate Change (Salick, Staver and Hart in Changing Climate, Changing Worlds 2020)
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).
The Use of ‘Use Value’: quantifying importance in ethnobotany. (Zenderland et al. Economic Botany 2019)
Vulnerability of phenological progressions over season and elevation to climate change: Rhododendrons of Mt. Yulong (Hart & Salick, PPEES 2018)
To list or not to list? The value and detriment of freelisting in ethnobotanical studies (Paniagua Zambrana et al. Nature Plants 2018)
