Planting Clues - How Plants Solve Crimes

David Gibson explores the role played by plants (and fungi) in investigating crime. Highlighting a range of real cases in which botanical evidence was involved, he describes how leaves, seeds, and moss fragments can link a suspect to a crime scene. He also considers cases in which plants themselves can be the subject of crime.

List of contents

• Prologue: An Entangled Bank


• 1: A Tree Never Lies


• 2: Everything That's Touched


• 3: Getting Caught Up


• 4: Every Particle Tells A Story


• 5: It's in the Genes


• 6: A Forensic Pharmacopoeia


• 7: Hiding in Plain Sight


• Coda: Moving Forward

About the author

David J. Gibson is Professor of Plant Biology and University Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is Senior Editor of the Journal of Ecology, and author of a number of books, including Grasslands and Climate Change (2019, with J. A. Newman), Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology, 2nd edition (2015) and Grasses and Grassland Ecology (2009).

Summary

David Gibson explores the role played by plants (and fungi) in investigating crime. Highlighting a range of real cases in which botanical evidence was involved, he describes how leaves, seeds, and moss fragments can link a suspect to a crime scene. He also considers cases in which plants themselves can be the subject of crime.

Product details

• Authors: David J. Gibson, David J. (Distinguished Professor of Plant Gibson, Gibson David J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2022
• EAN: 9780198868606
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886860-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; True Crime, popular science, LAW / Forensic Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, TRUE CRIME / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Forensic Science, Impact of science & technology on society, Botany & plant sciences, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Botany and plant sciences