ShowID

3194

Event Date:

1/28/2022

Length:

00:29:15

Category:

Science

Producer

Smithsonian Institute

Project

Science How?

Comments

January 15, 2015. This video features Rusty Russell, former Botany Collections Manager at the National Museum of Natural History. Rusty managed collections activities in the U.S. National Herbarium, a research collection that contains more than 5 million pressed, dried plant specimens. What is the point of keeping so many plant specimens? Take a journey with Rusty to see how plant collections can be used to map ecosystem changes over time. Visit a part of Southern California that experienced a dramatic shift in plant species composition during the 20th century. See how students and other volunteers can be instrumental in collecting data to tell the story of ecosystem change.

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