Feb 26, 2025
Jonathan Myers, Professor of Biology and Tyson’s ForestGeo PI, collaborated with 36 investigators across 21 ForestGeo plots to assess aggregation patterns in forests across latitudes. This global analysis featured a comparative study of ‘clumping’ patterns of rare and common tree species and their consequences for forest biodiversity. One of the key patterns reported in the paper was originally detected in a smaller early version of the Tyson plot in 1984 by University of Missouri St. Louis graduate student Carol Hampe. The study was published in Nature on April 16. Read more here.
Related Tyson ForestGEO stories:
https://source.washu.edu/2013/12/tyson-designated-an-earth-observatory/
https://source.washu.edu/2023/11/how-underground-fungi-shape-forests/
