BotanyBrock Mashburn
2023 The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
New Perspectives on TransOceanic Dispersal, Guided by a Critically Endangered Group of Tropical Plants: Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus
Mashburn seeks to understand how Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus achieved biogeographical distribution. Mashburn’s preliminary work suggests that Madagascar played an important role in the evolutionary history of the clade, and field work will allow sampling from the island. Species’ boundaries will be clarified and phylogenetic relationships among the six Madagascar species will be reconstructed. Data will solidify an understanding of the little-known biogeographic pattern and provide insight into mechanisms of extreme long-distance dispersal around the globe. The project will contribute to the first steps of conserving the six species in Madagascar.The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
To promote the preservation of tropical forests by enlarging the body of botanists with field experience.
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