Seward Park Sword Fern Die-off
Monday, July 25, 2016
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Blog Overview Introduction Narrative Summary (including comments from NY Botanical Garden’s fern curator, and world expert ge...
Pathogen Detection Strategies: PCR and Sequencing
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We do not know what is causing the sword fern die-off. Mountain beaver and drought may be contributing causes. But the spatial pattern of...
Monday, June 6, 2016
Presentation to the Seattle Parks Field Committee, Thursday June 2nd 2016
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At Lisa Cieko's invitation, I presented Kramer & Tristan's work to the Seatle Parks Field Committee. UW's Tim Billo superv...
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Twenty UW Monitoring Plots, Data Collection Ongoing
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Twenty random-placed monitoring plots, in and around Ground Zero Initial and repeat surveys by Tristan Kramer and Tristan O'Mara, Ti...
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Tristan and Kramer in action, establishing monitoring plots, mountain beaver evidence. January 2016
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Mountain Beaver hole close-up In context (ground zero?
Paul Talbert's Skepticism regarding the Mountain Beaver Hypothesis
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It seems likely that several interacting factors cause the sword fern die-off. Phythophthora and mountain beavers have been proposed. T...
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Phytophthora: oft-proposed candidate pathogen
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There are more than 100 species in this genus, whose name translates as "plant destroyer". P. ramorum is responsible for su...
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