Nature’s stage is (re)set: How might plant communities respond to disturbance by wildfire? In ecology, the word disturbance has a specific meaning. While our everyday use suggests a disruption to a
Despite the challenges our community faced throughout the global pandemic, the Research & Conservation Department is grateful for the many accomplishments we were able to celebrate in 2020. Our
Spring is the season where I switch from working in the office on a quest to discover patterns in our data that predict the behavior of rare plant populations to venturing out to the field to view
Volunteers have always been integral to Denver Botanic Gardens’ success. In fact, our natural history collections are the result of hard work by devoted volunteers. Kathryn Kalmbach and several other
The Freyer – Newman Center is the home of two new labs—a genetics and tissue culture lab and one facilitating ecological research, such as seed germination studies. For the Research and Conservation
A Gardens scientist conducts a field survey that will be aided by a new web application developed in-house. In mid-March of 2020, just as the nation was locking down in an attempt to curb the initial
It is unlikely that the English businessmen who commissioned the building of the High Line Canal more than 130 years ago could have envisioned its repurposing as green stormwater infrastructure (GSI)
What will the future hold for the rare and imperiled plants of Colorado? When projections are dire, efforts can be made to protect a species in several ways: • It could be petitioned to be added to
I have, at different times, been a student intern, volunteer and seasonal employee with the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi (DBG) at Denver Botanic Gardens since December 2017. This spring I was
Greetings from the new head curator of natural history collections, Jennifer Ackerfield (me!). Although I am new to the Gardens, I have been studying the flora of Colorado for over 20 years. Many of
