Climate change is impacting the distribution of biodiversity across time and space. Our gardens can be incredibly useful tools to support biodiversity conservation, such as by supporting native plant and wildlife populations and by reducing the spread of invasive species. In this talk, we will give a brief overview of how the climate is changing in the northeast and how it affects species distributions. Additionally, we will discuss how gardens can help seed ecosystems of the future.

Dr. Beaury, Assistant Curator in the Center for Conservation and Restoration Ecology at the New York Botanical Garden, focuses on the biogeography of global change, namely characterizing the spatial patterns and processes related to the spread of invasive species, climate change, and land-use change. She received her Ph.D. in invasive plant biogeography from UMass Amherst and completed a postdoc at Princeton University, where I explored spatial planning tools for nature-based solutions.