The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests
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In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, oversees this sequence of plots across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, some of which date as far back as the 19th century. Not one of the trees she surveys was planted by human hands. She maps, measures, and tracks each trunk that emerges, reveali
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