Name: Native plant migrations and contemporary range boundaries in relation to ecoregions and climate change
Start: 2025-03-01T12:30:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T13:00:00-0600

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.

Saturday March 1, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm CST

Rooms 30, 31

Plant migration is happening every year as propagules disperse to suitable habitat. Range expansions northward for native plants are predicted as regional average temperatures increase due to anthropogenic global warming. This presentation will discuss contemporary ecoregion boundaries of several plant species of interest and how climate change may be allowing a trend of increased native plant migration. Range maps, habitat characteristics, autecology, and recent migration will be discussed.

Presenters

Will Overbeck

Environmental Scientist, Hey and Associates, Inc.

Mr. Overbeck has over 20 years of experience with ecology projects within the Chicago region. He has been trained as a specialist in plant identification with applications in ecological restoration, planting plan design, seed collection, plant propagation, plant installation, ecological... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm CST
Rooms 30, 31

Plants & Pollinators, General

Session Session Block C: 12:30 - 1 PM

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Wild Things 2025

Will Overbeck

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