Indigenous Peoples Creating, Managing and Conserving Biodiversity
dnorris10 March 26th, 2008
Jan Salick, curator of ethnobotany at Missouri Botanical Garden and professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, visited campus to present the second lecture, “Indigenous Peoples Creating, Managing and Conserving Biodiversity” on Wednesday, March 5. Salick’s research interests include ethnobotany, conservation biology, tropical ecology, and agroecology. She has published a number of articles, including “Tibetan Sacred Sites Conserve Old Growth Trees in the Eastern Himalayas” in Biodiversity and Conservation.