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Plant Migration in a Changing Climate – October 2025 Conference – details on Conference 2025

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Issue #1006 of Rhodora Journal available. See this page for free electronic access for members through BioOne.

Special Publication describing the Vascular Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts is available for purchase and free PDF download here.

“NEBS Mission and Vision statements and Strategic Goals for 2020-2025″

Lecture Series Videos

Video recordings of some past lectures are available on the Videos of Past Meetings page.

NEBC 120th Anniversary Research Conference

Celebrating Botanical Research!

June 5-7, 2015

Smith College

Northampton, Massachusetts

Oral Presentations

Link to Abstracts

NEBC June 2015 Conference: Oral Presentation

* = Presenter

Keynote Address

  • Keynote
  • Video
    • Title: “Learned Societies” — Past, Present, and Future?
    • Author: Dr. Pamela Diggle

Regional Floras and Analyses

(Morning Session A, Weinstein Auditorium)

  • AM-A-1
  • Video
    • Title: Patterns and Changes in the Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts
    • Authors: Robert Bertin,* Katherine R. McKenna, Karen B. Searcy, Matthew G. Hickler, Glenn Motzkin
  • AM-A-2
  • Video
    • Title: Plants of Maine’s Lakes and Rivers
    • Authors: Keith Williams,* Jacolyn Bailey, Roberta Hill
  • AM-A-3
  • Video
    • Title: Changes in the Vascular Plant Diversity of the Monomoy Islands, Massachusetts
    • Authors: Richard Stalter,* Eric E. Lamont
  • AM-A-4
  • Video
    • Title: Transatlantic Connections: Marsh  Floras and Vegetation Along the Gradient from Freshwater to Ocean Salinities Along the Elbe (northern Europe) and Connecticut (northeastern North America) Rivers
    • Authors: Kai Jensen, C. John Burk,* Marjorie Holland
  • AM-A-5
  • Video
    • Title: Shifting Conservation Focus from Species Occurrence to Habitat Forming Process: The importance of Lateral Channel Migration to Persistence of Floodplain Forest Plant Populations
    • Authors: Christian Marks,* Erik Martin
  • AM-A-6
  • Video
    • Title: State of the Plants: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation of the New England Flora
    • Authors: Elizabeth Farnsworth,* William E. Brumback

Vascular Plant and Fungal Ecology and Life History

(Morning Session B,  McConnell)

  • AM-B-1
  • Video
    • Title: Not out of the woods yet: Wild blueberry illustrates that flower removal studies haev a ways to go to get mechanical
    • Authors: Alex Bajcz,* Francis Drummond
  • AM-B-2
  • Video
    • Title: The Impact of Invasive Honeysuckle Removal on Black-legged Tick Density in and Exurban Residential Setting
    • Authors: Emily Marsh,* Alan Giese
  • AM-B-3
  • Video
    • Title: Bud Set in Temperate Woody species: Variation in Dormant Bud Size across Species and Range, with Implications for Springtime Phenology
    • Authors: Jehane Samaha,* Elizabeth Wolkovich, Daniel Flynn, Timothy Savas
  • AM-B-4
  • Video
    • Title: Herpomyces chaetophilus, a New Record of Laboulbeniales for North America
    • Authors: Tristan Wang,* Danny Haelewaters, Donald H. Pfister
  • AM-B-5
  • Video
    • Title: The Highly Invasive Grass Brachypodium sylvacticum – A Candidate for Early Detection/Rapid Response in Eastern North America?
    • Authors: David Werier, Steven Daniel*

Plant Adaptations and Stress Effects

(Afternoon Session A, Weinstein Auditorium)

  • PM-A-1
  • Video
    • Title: Horticultural Escape and Naturalization of Magnolia tripetala (L.) L. north of Its Native Range Will Give Tree Species a ‘Head Start’ on Climate Change
    • Authors: Jesse Bellemare,* Claudia Deeg, Dov F. Sax, Regan Early
  • PM-A-2
  • Video
    • Title: Local Adaptation to Environment is Observed from Genome-Wide SNP Data in Populus balsamifera (L.).
    • Authors: Karl Fetter,* V. E. Chhatre, S. R. Keller
  • PM-A-3
  • Video
    • Title: Adapatation, Performance and Host-Resistance: Tsuga Research in the Northeast
    • Authors: Rick Harper,* Paul Weston
  • PM-A-4
  • Video
    • Title: Potential Effects of Eastern Hemlock Decline on the Hemlock-associated Liverwort Bazznia trilobata
    • Authors: Michelle Jackson,* Jesse Bellemare
  • PM-A-5
  • Video
    • Title: Combiniing Incidence and Demographic Modeling Approacches to Evaluate Metapopulation Parameters for Furbish’s Lousewort (Pedicularus furbishiae)
    • Authors: Sydne Record,* Noah Charney

Botanical History:  Herbarium Collections and Paleobotany

(Afternoon Session B, McConnell)

  • PM-B-1
  • Video
    • Title: Pigeon Peas and Pawpaw: Frederick Pursh’s Plants of Onondaga
    • Authors: Catherine Landis,* Donald J. Leopold, Robin W. Kimmerer
  • PM-B-2
  • Video
    • Title: Herbarium Treasure Hunt: Botanical Consortium Portals as Teaching Tools for Undergraduate Research
    • Authors: Janet Sullivan,* Christopher D. Neefus
  • PM-B-3
  • Video
    • Title: The Historic Flora of Franklin County, Massacchusetts 1816-1990: Major Collectors and Collection Patterns
    • Authors: Karen Searcy,* Robert I. Bertin, Matthew G. Hickler
  • PM-B-4
  • Video
    • Title: Digitization of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium
    • Authors: Barbara Thiers*
  • PM-B-5
  • Video
    • Title: Examination of pollen profiles and frequency dit ribution of diatom species, found in 8500 years of peat at Poutwater Pond, Holden, Massachusetts
    • Authors: Peter Bradley,* Jennifer Marino, Benjamin Parmentier, Adrienne P. Smyth