Oak decline is a slow-acting disease complex that involves the interaction of biotic and abiotic factors such as climate, site quality and advancing tree age.

Botanic gardens play major roles in plant conservation globally.

Predicting the flowering times of angiosperm taxa is a goal of mounting importance in the face of future climate change, with applications not only in plant biology and ecology, but also horticulture, agriculture, and invasive species management.

A major challenge in articulating human dimensions of climate change lies in translating global climate forecasts into impact assessments that are intuitive to the public.

The below case studies were collected and shared in a September 2018 Newsletter from the Center for Plant Conservation. 

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a rapid rise in the mobilization of digital biodiversity data.

U.S. urban land increased from 2.6% (57.9 million acres) in 2000 to 3.0% (68.0 million acres) in 2010. States with the greatest amount of urban growth were in the South/Southeast (TX, FL, NC, GA and SC).

Botanic gardens around the world maintain collections of living plants for science, conservation, education, beauty and more.

Ten years ago the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria embarked on an ambitious project to collect, treat and distribute storm water from the catchment within and around the botanic garden.

This article investigates the scientific and communicative value of time-lapse imagery by exploring applications for data collection and visualization.