My name is Elizabeth Thompson and I am an undergraduate student working on an independent research project with Dr. Erika Iyengar at Muhlenberg College. Over the summer we conducted trials examining the feeding preferences of the Pacific Northwest banana slug and the invasive black slug on a variety of plants from the Pacific Northwest area. We are close to finishing the analysis of our data and are working more heavily on our paper. We have been struggling with finding sources containing specific information on the plants, such as leaf toughness and nutrition content. We used the book "Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska" by Jim Polar for identifying plants and some basic information, but we are struggling now with finding papers or books with more specific details on these plants. If anyone has any sources or know people to contact about sources on plants of the Pacific Northwest, please email me at: [email protected]
