Title:
Could plants help us find dead bodies? Forensic botanists want to know
Source:
Cell Press
Published:
Science Daily, 3 September 2020
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200903133025.htm
Summary:
Search teams looking for human remains are often slowed by painstaking on-foot pursuits or aerial searches that are obscured by forest cover. Researchers are now discussing utilizing tree cover in body recovery missions to our advantage, by detecting changes in the plant's chemistry as signals of nearby human remains.
See also:
Holly Brabazon, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, Scott C. Lenaghan, Fei Li, Amy Z. Mundorff, Dawnie W. Steadman, C. Neal Stewart. Plants to Remotely Detect Human Decomposition? Trends in Plant Science, 2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.07.013