BotanyBenton Taylor
2017 The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
Benton Taylor is a PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University. His project is titled “Understanding the Ecological Drivers of Nitrogen Fixation in Regenerating Tropical Forests.” He will focus on the ecology of nitrogenfixing trees in regenerating rainforests in Costa Rica. Regenerating tropical forests is critical to global conservation and climate change mitigation efforts; the nitrogen-fixing trees studied naturally fertilize the regrowth of these tropical forests following disturbance. His research investigates how changes in light and soil-nutrient availability during forest regeneration influences the success and the nitrogen inputs of nitrogen-fixing trees.
Funded by the GCA Visiting Gardens Committee
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
To promote the preservation of tropical forests by enlarging the body of botanists with field experience.
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