Research Projects:
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Participating members of the Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance at UGA include scientists in the departments of Botany, Genetics, and Ecology. These scientists promote and facilitate plant conservation in Georgia in several ways. Some researchers are directly involved in rare plant research in Georgia. Others provide scientific and statistical advice to GPCA that enhances the organization's research goals. Basic ecological and genetic research conducted by several labs in the U.S. and in the tropics contributes to the general understanding of problems and solutions in conservation biology. Finally, the UGA herbarium provides a resource for the identification and taxonomic delineation of rare Georgia plants, as well as information on their historical and current distributions.
UGA Coastal Plain Experiment Station
The University of Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station is developing a site on the Tifton Campus as an arboretum. The Coastal Plain Research Arboretum was started in 1987 and will be unique in the southeast in that it is located on the grounds of an experiment station and is devoted to native trees and shrubs of a well-defined physiogeographic region, the Coastal Plain of Georgia. The Arboretum provides a living resource for the purpose of research, education, and recreation among the native plant species of the Georgia Coastal Plain.