Beyond Trees: Building a Community for Better Forests
At the 62ⁿᵈ Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, we will launch the Beyond Trees research initiative through our symposium: Beyond Trees: A More Inclusive Growth-Form Perspective on Ecology and Society in Tropical Landscapes. Beyond Trees is a research community dedicated to understanding, celebrating, and advancing the study of the diverse growth
Grassy Trees: Transitional Solutions in a Transitioning World
Cover Illustration: Maryam Lootah for Washington Square News Our recent paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution highlights a group of plants that has long occupied a blind spot in forest ecology. Large enough to reach the canopy like trees, yet fast-growing and anatomically more similar to grasses, bamboos, bananas, palms, and many other giant monocots are