Exploring Tree Biology And Forest Evolution With Dr. Chuck Cannon Of The Morton Arboretum

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the biology and the individual behavior of trees with Dr. Chuck Cannon, a Senior Scientist in Ecological Evolution at The Morton Arboretum. As an expert in forest evolution, wildlife, and conservation, Dr. Cannon brings a unique set of skills and knowledge to the Arboretum. Currently, his work focuses on two primary research questions:

1. How can we ensure that tree species maintain resilience and adaptability in rapidly changing, human-dominated environments, and how do naturally occurring hybridization and genetic exchange among interfertile species contribute to this process?
2. Can new technologies provide novel insights into tree biology, and how can the application of innovative tools and techniques overcome the challenges of studying trees?

In addition to diving into these questions, we explore:

How Dr. Cannon's work shifted from primate research to the biology of trees.
How a forest is defined, and how this environment is created.
The ways that trees can indicate environmental quality.
What we can learn from trees.
The biggest threats that trees face.

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0:30.0	This is the Finding Genius Podcast.
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0:35.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast.
0:41.0	My guest today is Chuck Cannon. He's a senior scientist. We're going to talk
0:44.8	about ecological evolution. He's part of the Morton Arboretum. We know, be looking at trees,
0:49.5	the biology and behavior of individual trees. And again, what may be called ecological evolution so
0:55.0	Chuck welcome yeah thanks for suit thanks for having me on your
0:57.8	podcast yes you would tell me a bit about your background and how you ended up working at
1:01.8	the arboretum and then we'll go over your current work after that.
1:05.2	Yeah, it's a long and winding story to become a botanists here at the Morton Arboretum for myself.
1:25.0	I like to tell this story because I think a lot of people think you have to kind of be born a botanists and but there's a chance for people to become to that later in life because I certainly was not really that interested in plants when I was an undergraduate for example. I was very interested in primate behavior and evolution and so I was an anthropology major actually and but I had the great opportunity to go to Indonesia and do a research project and I was a research assistant for about a year at a research site there in Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
1:45.0	And so I went to study primates, but it was actually very difficult to study them.
1:50.0	They're very agile and they move in the canopy very quickly and so I would get up very early in the
1:53.9	morning and go out and spend all day trying to follow the monkeys to get behavioral
1:57.9	data and I'd come back with you know just a few minutes of data but part of my
2:01.6	responsibilities also were to monitor the trees and
2:04.5	note which ones were flowering and try to identify them and that kind of stuff and I just found I had a
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