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Professor Catherine Badgley: Reading Deep Time, Growing Biodiversity

A paleontologist, biogeographer, conservation thinker, teacher, farmer, and advocate for transforming the global food system, Dr. Badgley has built a career around one central question: what supports biodiversity, and how can we protect it?

- Giota Tachtara

Tags: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tracing a Tropical Tree Across Continents

Recently, researchers from the University of Michigan’s Herbarium traveled to Panama to investigate why one of the rainforest’s most intriguing trees is found in two distant places.

Tags: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Herbarium