Ep. 417 - Coping with Change as an Alpine Plant
In Defense of Plants Podcast
In Defense of Plants
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Environmental change is something that all organisms must deal with throughout their life. This is especially true for long-lived plants. Adapt or die is often the only options available for most plants, but predicting their responses can be extremely difficult. That is where people like Dr. Megan DeMarche come in. Using long term datasets on centuries old alpine plants, Dr. DeMarche and her colleagues are hard at work trying to understand how alpine plants may or may not adapt to rapid changes in their habitat and how these sorts of data can help improve plant conservation efforts. This episode was produced in part by Dorothy, Katherine, Emily, Theo, Nichole, Paul, Karen, Randi, Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Indefensive Plants podcast, the official podcast of |
| 0:04.1 | Indefensiveplants.com. |
| 0:05.6 | What's up? |
| 0:06.0 | This is your host, Matt. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:07.6 | How is everyone doing this week? |
| 0:09.8 | Climate change. |
| 0:11.2 | It is something we're all thinking about in one form or another, and the way it affects |
| 0:15.0 | plants is about as varied as there are plants out there. |
| 0:20.0 | But trying to figure out how individual species, especially |
| 0:22.8 | in the context of their populations and all of the other things they have to deal with, both living |
| 0:27.0 | and non-living in their habitat, is in a really important pursuit. And that is exactly what Dr. Megan |
| 0:33.6 | DeMarch is up to. She's here today to talk to us about her work on a handful of really interesting and really |
| 0:40.0 | cool alpine plants and how climate change is affecting them and what kinds of ways they can |
| 0:45.3 | either adapt or not adapt. |
| 0:47.1 | I will let her do all the talking because she is a great order of the science. |
| 0:51.6 | Before we get to that conversation, I just want to do a quick shout out to |
| 0:55.1 | all of my patrons that support this show each and every month through patreon.com slash indefensive |
| 1:00.0 | plants. I could not be doing the show without their support each and every month. So if you |
| 1:04.3 | enjoy the show and you want to kick in to just help the show have a future, consider doing that. |
| 1:09.5 | Once again, it is at patreon.com slash |
| 1:11.7 | Indefense Plants. But that is entirely enough for me. This is really fascinating work. So without |
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