Spencer C. Schubert, PhD
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Mongabay has just published a news story launching the directory that has been created from our global review of tree-growing intermediary organizations. This platform provides a public summary of the profiles, commitments, and reporting practices of more than 125 organizations working in at least 89 different countries around the world. Our criteria provide a unified framework to evaluate how organizations are recognizing and implementing scientific guidelines for best practices across their networks of projects. We have also submitted a manuscript detailing our broader findings for peer-review, which will soon be available as a pre-print.

I am pleased to share that, together with Islas project team in Costa Rica, we have published our first paper from the 2022 field census efforts in Ecological Applications! This represented the first ever complete survey of naturally colonizing trees in the experimental forests in southern Costa Rica, aged 16-18 years. With over 80,000 stems measured and identified to at least 255 tree species, we found new insights for how initial planting designs from the experiment are affecting community assembly and recruitment of dispersal-limited late-successional species.