June 14, 2021
Professor Rebecca Montgomery is featured in a Native Science Report article on a phenology project at the College of Menominee Nation. You can read the full article at Native Science Report.
If plants could talk, they’d have a lot to say about the ongoing change in climate. As life forms that remain rooted in one spot, they respond to local temperature and rainfall and other climate signals. Even without talking, though, they can still communicate. At the College of Menominee Nation, researchers and student interns are investigating one of the ways plants communicate by monitoring the timing of the annual cycles of selected plants—such as flowering, fruiting and die-back—also known as their phenology.