Science in parks and parks for science

What comes to your mind when you think of National Parks? Do you think of beauty, recreational opportunities, or preservation? This Ignite session encourages you to think of National Parks from yet another angle – National Parks as places where amazing science can and does happen. Places that inspired the formulation of niche theory by MacArthur and Grinnell, plant community ecology by Whittaker, and island biogeography by Simberloff and Wilson. Become inspired by classics in ecology that live on today and marvel at how science is for parks and parks are for science.