Studying the processes shaping tropical plant communities
at local, regional, and global scales
at local, regional, and global scales
photos by Christian Ziegler
Labs news
September 2026 - Some exciting lab dynamics - we are excited to welcome new PhD student Bela Starinchak and wish Luke Browne the best of luck in his new faculty position at UMass Amherst!
August 2026 - Liza led a seminar course on tropical forests for K-12 New Haven Public School teachers through the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute this past spring/summer, which was featured in this Yale News article.
May 2026 - We received a Constellation Grant from Yale Planetary Solutions for a new project entitled Harnessing Natural Regeneration for Large-Scale Forest Restoration in Tropical Landscapes.
May 2026 - Congratulations to María Alejandra Gallegos on graduating with her Master of Forest Science degree. Next stop, a PhD program in Germany, working with Dr. Bettina Engelbrecht!
September 2025 - We received a new seed grant from Envisioning Artificial Intelligence at Yale for our project entitled Using Text-Based Trait Profiles for AI Species Identification in Hyperdiverse Plant Communities. This project will build on our previous seed grant on AI-powered Identification of Tropical Tree Seedlings using Hyperspectral and 3D Data, integrating image and text-based information to enhance species identification and the collection of species-specific ecological data in diverse plant communities.
June 2024 - Check out our new paper on within-species variation in drought resistance of tropical trees in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We combined field experiments at 4 sites, functional traits measurements, and estimates of gene flow to assess responses to water availability in 16 species across a strong rainfall gradient in Panama. And the results were not what we expected....
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New Haven, CT 06511 USA
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