Missouri Botanical Garden

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Plant systematics and floristics

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Colombia, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant conservation, threatened plants and communities

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: North America (Ozarks and Southeastern US)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Conserving Rare Plant Species through Ecological Restoration in Missouri Woodlands

Primary subject of interest: Plant taxonomy, medicinal plants, natural product discovery

Primary geographic interest: United States, Madagascar

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest ,Savanna, Shrubland

Primary subject of interest: Bryology

Primary geographic area of interest: North America

Primary subject(s) of interest: Herbaria, global change biology, hyperspectral botany, phenology, ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Urban Areas, Botanic Gardens and Herbaria

Primary subject of interest: Population genetics and plant conservation

Primary geographic area of interest: United States

Primary subject(s) of interest: Pollination; Anthophilous insects (bees, beetles, syrphid flies, butterflies and moths); flowering plant groups (orchids and other petaloid monocots), montane wildflowers of the Himalayas; Proteaceae of Australia; plant systematics and phytogeography of the floras of southern Australia; redbuds and dogwoods of Missouri; pollination in urban versus rural flora native to North America; popular illustrations and depictions of flora and their pollinators from the 19th-21st century; the history of the writings of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries on floral adaptation/evolution; bee diversity on rural versus urban trees of redbud (Cercis canadensis) and dogwood (Cornus florida) in St. Louis and its counties

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  United States (Saint Louis, Missouri, Kansas), Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia), China (Kunming, Lijiang and Yulong (Yunnan))

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savana, Shrubland, Grassland, Montane>3000m

Primary subject of interest: Management of protected areas (including sustainable use of natural resources, forest restoration, monitoring, control of invasive plant species) and ex-situ plant conservation (including field gene-banks)

Primary geographic interest: Madagascar

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant systematics, floristics, molecular systematics, anatomy, microscopy, ecology, sustainability, palynology, teaching

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: USA, Mexico

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest:  Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject of interest: Ecology, taxonomy, and conservation of bryophytes

Primary geographic area of interest: USA, Madagascar, Philippines

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant diversity and evolution, systematics, phylogenomics, pollination biology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Neotropics (emphasis on Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia and Brazil)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Floral Scent Differentiation as a Mechanism for Pollinator Partitioning in the Genus Anthurium (Araceae)

Primary subject(s) of interest: Youth civic engagement and place-based education

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Grassland, Freshwater

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Biodiversity of Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Sangamon River (Illinois): Community Science in Action
• Collaborating with Community Scientists to Improve Conservation: A Case Study with Bee Visitation Networks

Primary subject(s) of interest: Systematics and Ecology of Araceae; Phenology of flowering and fruiting in tropical ecosystems

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Neotropics

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest ,Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land

Primary subject of interest: Conservation genetics, molecular systematics, phylogeography, DNA metabarcoding, quantitative genetics, understanding response of plants to environmental stress (focusing mainly on plants of conservation concern)

Primary geographic interest: Americas and islands of the western Indian Ocean (Madagascar and the Mascarenes)

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Biodiversity of Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Sangamon River (Illinois): Community Science in Action
• Integrating Stable Isotopes and DNA Metabarcoding of Cave Guano to Develop a Unique Paleoenvironmental Archive for the Humid Tropics 
• The Search for Critically Endangered Possibly Extinct Ecuadorean Frogs using eDNA

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, community-based conservation, North American biodiversity, invasive species

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: United States (Appalachia, the Ozarks)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Agricultural land

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ecosystem functioning,  Plant species in situ/ex situ conservation, Systematic and evolutionary botany, Urban greening

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Madagascar

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Floristics, plant taxonomy, and plant conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Tanzania

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Urban areas

Primary subject of interest: Ethnobotany, food anthropology, refugee and immigrant cuisine

Primary geographic interest: Bosnia, United States

Primary subject of interest: Flowering plant systematics, Lythraceae

Primary geographic interest: Global

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:: Ethnobotany, artifacts made from plants, education

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Global

Primary subject(s) of interest: Climate change impacts on plant ecology and human environmental knowledge systems; ethnobotany; montane and alpine; Madagascar; community-based conservation; food plants

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Himalaya; Hengduan/Mountains of Southwest China; Pacific Northwest; Madagascar

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land

LEC Projects

• Data-driven conservation of the critically endangered diademed sifaka and the black and white ruffed lemur living in fragmented habitats

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Biological Inventory and Conservation of Arevik National Park and Zangezur Sanctuary, Armenia
• Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health through Wild Edible Plants of Alandraza-Agnalavelo Sacred Forest, Madagascar
• Socio-economic and Cultural Adaptation to Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change: Analysis and Intervention Efficacy Study in Three Madagascar Subsistence Communities

Primary subject of interest: Plant evolution, impacts of human-influenced environmental changes

Primary geographic area of interest: United States

Primary subject of interest: Biodiversity literature

Primary geographic area of interest: United States

Primary subject of interest: Andes, Neotropics

Primary geographic interest: Global

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Páramo Biodiversity Farms: A Collaborative Conservation Project (Colombia)

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant ecology & evolution, pollination biology, conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts

Primary subject(s) of interest: Lichen taxonomy

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  North America (Interior Highlands, Great Plains, Central Tallgrass Prairie, Great Lakes)

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland, Urban areas

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• A Carbon Garden: A Saint Louis-Based Model for Urban Bioenergetics Carbon Capture and Storage

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Conservation and restoration of rare plant species and natural communities, particularly grassland, savannah, and woodlands

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Midwestern and Southeastern United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Grassland

Primary subject of interest:  Plant Systematics, Conservation Biology, and Ethnobotany

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Native Midwest Flora, Fire Ecology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Vietnam, Indonesia, Ecuador

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Herbarium

Primary subject(s) of interest: Natural products research, systematics of Boraginaceae, flora of Madagascar

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Africa (Madagascar), South America

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Deserts

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Biological Inventory and Conservation of Arevik National Park and Zangezur Sanctuary, Armenia

Primary subject of interest: Nicaraguan flora, assessments of the conservation status of plants at risk

Primary geographic area of interest: Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia

Primary subject of interest: Nature-based and informal education

Primary geographic interest: Saint Louis region

Primary subject of interest: Floristics, plant systematics, taxonomy and conservation

Primary geographic interest: Neotropics/Global

Primary subject(s) of interest: Museum studies, museum exhibitions, history, contemporary art, anthropology, conservation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: All

Primary subject(s) of interest:  Floristics, sharing science, the importance of biodiversity and conservation, and the significance of global climate change with the local public, plant taxonomy, natural history collections use and curation

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Central America

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Agricultural land, Collection-based

Primary subject(s) of interest: Taxonomy of Southeast Asian flowering plants, esp. Ebenaceae and Gesneriaceae

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Indonesia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia,

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest

Primary subject(s) of interest: Ethnobotany

Primary geographic area of interest:  Madagascar

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health through Wild Edible Plants of Alandraza-Agnalavelo Sacred Forest, Madagascar

Primary subject of interest: Plant and ecosystem conservation, community-based conservation

Primary geographic interest: Madagascar

LEC Projects

• Data-driven conservation of the critically endangered diademed sifaka and the black and white ruffed lemur living in fragmented habitats

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health through Wild Edible Plants of Alandraza-Agnalavelo Sacred Forest, Madagascar
• Socio-economic and Cultural Adaptation to Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change: Analysis and Intervention Efficacy Study in Three Madagascar Subsistence Communities

Primary subject of interest: Climate change, alpine botany, ethnobotany, tropical ecology, agroecology, traditional knowledge and science, biocultural collections

Primary subject(s) of interest: Taxonomy and phylogeny of Ericaceae, flora and vegetation of Madagascar, plant conservation assessment

Primary geographic interest: Madagascar

Primary subject(s) of interest: Conservation biogeography and global change, using statistical models of populations, species, and ecosystems

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Global

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Savanna, Shrubland, Grassland, Deserts, Agricultural land

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• Microrefugia Against Climate Change

Primary subject of interest: Collection management, tropical Vitaceae, Cactaceae, flora of Bolivia

Primary subject of interest: Seed plant diversification and evolution

Primary geographic interest: Global

Primary subject(s) of interest: Neotropical Floristics and Biogeography, Taxonomy and Systematics of Rubiaceae

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Mexico, Central America, Antilles, tropical South America, Madagascar

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forests, Savanna, Shrubland

Primary subject(s) of interest: Grass systematics and evolution, natural history collections, biodiversity data management, taxonomy, history of biology

Primary geographic area(s) of interest: Africa, Australia

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Savanna, Grassland

Primary subject of interest: Forest ecology and biogeography

Primary geographic interest Neotropics, Amazon, Andes, Global

LEC Seed Grant Projects

• A Synthesis of Patterns and Mechanisms of Diversity and Forest Change in the Andes: A Global Biodiversity Hotspot
• Testing the Role that Biotic Interactions Play in Shaping Elevational-Diversity Gradients: An Ecological Metabolomics Approach

Primary subject of interest: Plants

Primary geographic interest: Andes

Primary subject(s) of interest: Plant domestication and evolution, phylogenomics, population genomics, hybridization

Primary geographic area(s) of interest:  Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, United States

Habitats and Ecosystems of interest: Forest, Agricultural land, Urban areas

Primary subject of interest: Biodiversity and plant conservation policies and practices, botanic garden development, conservation biology, Irish ethnobotany

Primary geographic interest: Global