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Anna Peschel at work in her greenhouse with the subject of her research, Chamaecrista fasciculata (<\/em>Partridge pea). \u00a0Plants will be hand pollinated to produce seed that she will sow into the field this fall.<\/p><\/div>\n Peschel’s will be awarded $1000 by the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration to help support her research. \u00a0This is the third year that a student research award has been offered to student members for work done in the seven-state chapter area. \u00a0 Previous winners include Becky Barak in 2016 and Amy Alstad in 2015.<\/p>\n Peschel at the McCarthy Lake WMA in Minnesota, one of her field sites.<\/p><\/div>\n Peschel’s work is focused on the tall grass prairie region of Minnesota that once covered 18 million acres, but now less than two percent remains. \u00a0Peschel says in her research proposal, “Tallgrass prairie plants are at risk of extinction from climate change unless adaptation by natural selection restores the growth rates of their populations to levels that maintain them.”<\/p>\n Peschel’s research will use the annual prairie legume, partridge pea as a focal organism to represent tall grass prairie plants and her research will attempt to determine its “adaptive capacity along an aridity gradient mimicking environmental conditions predicted to reach eastern Minnesota in 25-30 years.”<\/p>\n Precipitation exclusion structures Peschel will employ to mimic drought.<\/p><\/div>\n The results of Peschel’s research will be presented at SER MWGL’s annual meeting next April in Steven’s Point, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anna Peschel, a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, won the award for her research which tackles the persistent and challenging question of local adaptation. Peschel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,78,77,18,19],"tags":[51,71],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter-news","category-grants-and-awards","category-restorationnewsmidwest","category-restoration-research","category-students-section","tag-minnesota","tag-tall-grass-prairie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"FullSizeRender\"](\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/files\/2017\/06\/fullsizerender.jpg\")
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