Recent links

11/15/24 We win second prize in XPRIZE Rainforest

11/5-24/24 Fieldwork in southern Guyana on our 32nd rapid inventory

10/15/24 Our new paper refuting Centinelan extinction

7/30/24 Looking back on XPRIZE Rainforest

11/8/23 Our new map of Amazonian tree diversity and density

10/6/23 Updated Map of Life Regions page launched

10/5/23 Vinicius Peripato’s amazing paper about earthworks in the Amazon

9/18/23 New field work and ex situ plant conservation in coastal Ecuador

7/25/23 Map of Life team qualifies for XPRIZE Rainforest finals

4/15/22 Our paper reporting the rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus

4/1/22 My statement on the recent flooding event at the museum

9/23/21 Lesley’s “slick new mustached gentlefish”

7/30/21 Our article on 20 years of rapid inventories in Amazonian Peru

7/29/21 Our article asking: Where are the field photographs of the American flora?

7/29/21 Our article deciphering patterns of tree distribution in the Ecuadorean Amazon

6/7/21 Our article about a 5,000 year-old forest in the Amazon

5/14/20 Mongabay article highlighting Lesley’s portal paper

2/17/20 Lesley’s article on structure and connectivity of freshwater fish communities in Guyana’s Rupununi portal

10/3/19 Article reporting 64 new records for Peru’s vascular flora collected on rapid inventories

3/5/19 Article reporting that we’ve found 10,071 species of trees in the Amazon so far

2/7/19 Lesley’s monograph describing six new species of bristlenose catfish

8/29/18 Blog post on this site about the role of immigrants in Brazilian science

8/15/18 Blog post on fieldmuseum.org about a Colombian jaguar from 1952