This is what I really like to do. My research here has concentrated on two main areas. The first is doing local floras-complete botanical inventories of selected areas.
Local floras serve many purposes.
They are the raw data for determining the basic global patterns in plant biodiversity. Furthermore, local floras provide an extremely valuable baseline for monitoring changes in the earth's biota. My second area of interest has been in evaluating and applying the information contained in local floras. Local floras sample the regional flora, and these samples can be used to discover and illustrate important features of the regional and global floras. I have worked extensively in using local floras to develop natural geographical classifications of floristic areas and floristic elements, and to examine such problems as the distribution and spread of exotic species.