Inventory and modeling of a plant of conservation concern on Penn State forestlands

Lisa Grab

Pennsylvania Plants of Conservation Concern (POCC) can only be protected through identification, inventorying, and monitoring. In May 2021, I began conducting fieldwork on Penn State’s 6,775-acre Stone Valley Forest to identify populations of a state listed POCC and located 41 populations containing 430 plants (and found additional POCC’s). I documented populations through herbarium specimens and am now using the associated habitat data I collected to build GIS models for future surveys of remaining PSU forestlands.

Major: 
Forest Ecosystem Management
Exhibition Category: 
Health and Life Sciences
Exhibition Format: 
Poster Presentation
Campus: 
University Park
Faculty Sponsor: 
Eric Burkhart
Poster Number: 
16047