The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT
We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.
Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.
Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.
**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**
NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.
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The timing of the life events in plants (leafing out, flowering, senescence, etc.) is largely determined by weather conditions, especially temperature. As global climate change generally increases temperatures and changes seasonal weather trends, it has the potential to have a strong effect on individual plant species and entire plant communities. The effects can have large consequences for competition, carbon sequestration, reproduction, and interactions with pollinators. We collected data on herbaceous and woody plants at one Illinois forest from 1993 to 2021 for over 60 species. In some groups we found spring events occur earlier, autumn events occur later, and the growing season is rapidly increasing. We discuss the implications of this growth, and potential winners and losers.
