You can now watch a 4 1/2 minute video of me presenting my preliminary results from this summer’s field study on an invasive grass. I’m going back through the data, analyzing how meaningful the differences I saw were, given the massive variation. So keep in mind these are preliminary, not yet peer reviewed, conclusions.

I point out at the end of the talk that my results pave the way to ask more questions I am interested in.

One of those questions that needs to be answered (before I can get to the real questions) is what a few of the plants I saw out there are… most of them I only saw in seedling stage. Seedlings lack reproductive parts (flowers), which are pretty critical for identification. But it gets worse. They also lack other major structures like adult stem structures (woody or not?), and even basic things like leaves. So I may not get much more specific than genus, but that would be pretty good itself – especially since we know mostly what species are present in my study site, so I can make an educated guess about what members of the genus I might be seeing.