Her work includes analysis of pond sediments, soils, and more collecting to
document plant diversity... We're also hoping to cast a broader net across Providence with an analysis of historical specimens of Plantago [plantain] in an attempt to match terrestrial trends in heavy metal concentration with measurements taken from nearby marine sediments in Narragansett Bay [south of Providence].»
Axel Diederichsen, curator of
Plant Gene Resources of Canada in Saskatoon, says the new study's effort to
document and map missing wild
diversity is valuable.