BotanyRiley Fortier
2023 The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Tropical Botany
Longitudinal Study to Test for the Acclimation of Individual Trees to Multiple Decades of Climate Change
Fortier will leverage long-term plot data and associated herbarium specimens to investigate how individual tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon have acclimated to climate change over the last 40-plus years. Changes in functional traits of individual plants over multiple years will be examined. Fortier’s research will help predict future changes in Amazon tree composition and may target species in greater need of conservation initiatives.
School: PhD Candidate in Biology, University of Miami
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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