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We are the scientific journal of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Our authors fear nothing.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17447429
Hey tropical ecosystem enthusiasts! Please welcome Dr. Rhett Harrison, who is the new Editor-in-Chief of Biotropica!
July 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Three Generations of Biotropica Editors-in-Chief!
July 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Going to ATBC in Oaxaca? Please join us for two Biotropica events on Tuesday:
How to publish your scientific results

and an informal Meet and Greet with the Biotropica Editorial Board.

This is your opportunity to get to know Biotropica!
June 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here's a "must read" for everyone interested in mechanisms of secondary forest regeneration

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Successional Growth Dynamics of Woody Saplings in Tropical Dry Forest Understory
The factors that drive sapling growth in tropical dry forest succession remain unclear. Growth rates are higher in the early stages of succession and then decrease. Light and not water seems to be th...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
New database of tropical root data!!
🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots
TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments
Tropical ecosystems contain the world's largest biodiversity of vascular plants. Yet, our understanding of tropical functional diversity and its contribution to global diversity patterns is constrain...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A little blog piece about our recent visit (and collaboration on) to an ambitious new #rewilding project southern Namibia with Natural State and ORKCA…
www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/rewildi...
Rewilding a Unique Namibian Landscape
As part of an ongoing collaboration between Natural State and the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, Yadvinder and Nikki recently visited a Natural State field site where, together with the Orange...
www.oxfordecosystems.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy Friday, everyone!
May 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Interested in integrating art and biology at the university level? Feel free to join this free online symposium!
April 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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120 Years of "Lemurology" (study of lemurs): what has changed? Read our newly published paper in Biotropica to find out more.
April 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Our most recent paper - led by #AnkitaSinha and assessing spatio-temporal patterns among specialist river birds in the Indian Himalaya - has made the cover of @biotropica.bsky.social Free to air here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and here www.researchgate.net/publication/...
April 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Las #invasionesbiológicas siguen patrones globales. El Paleártico, el Neártico y Australasia son los principales receptores, mientras que también el Neártico, la región indomalaya y el trópico africano son donantes clave. El comercio global juega un rol importante en este intercambio de especies 👇
March 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM