A team of five researchers from the Oman Botanic Garden, led by Director Annette Patzelt, as well as Edinburgh Botanic Garden’s Tony Miller, joined us in Dhufar this year! Annette and Saif al-Hatmi led the botanical surveys in the plateau, near escarpment and along the wadis. The results of this research will aid in the ASOM objectives by providing clarification on the modern ecological communities and how these plant associations relate to the paleoecology proxy archives collected from the hyrax middens and termite mound paleosols.
Annalee and Joy participating in the identification of seeds collected on the survey with Annette and Tony.