Event Details:

Lars Brudvig from the MSU Department of Plant Biology presents "Restoration of longleaf pine savannas in the southeastern United States."

Longleaf pine savannas are fire-maintained ecosystem that form part of the southeast United States Coastal Plain biodiversity hotspot. With only 3% of historical area intact, there is substantial interest in conducting restoration within the ecosystem. Lars Brudvig will discuss research conducted by my group to inform these restoration efforts, focusing on understory plant communities within sites with histories of agricultural land use and fire suppression.