** watch future Linda Hall Library lectures live at new.livestream.com/lindahall ** November 5, 2018, in the Linda Hall Library Auditorium. Presented by the Westport Garden Club. The speaker: Dr. Quinn Long is Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Nature Preserve. His work focuses on the conservation and restoration of rare plant species and natural communities, particularly grassland, savannah, and woodlands in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Dr. Long is broadly interested in examining how natural (e.g., fire) and anthropogenic (e.g., fragmentation) disturbances influence plant communities and populations, with an emphasis on applied research that facilitates restoration and land management. Examples of applied research areas of interest to land managers include identifying ecological references to guide restorations, enhancing the diversity of degraded natural communities and low diversity restorations, and determining optimal strategies for the control of invasive species. He is also a restoration practitioner with over 15 years of firsthand experience restoring natural communities and controlling invasive species. He has a BS is biology from the University of Missouri and a PhD is Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Kansas. Video produced by The VideoWorks of Roeland Park, Kansas.

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