My research seeks to optimize the conservation of birds and biodiversity in tropical working landscapes, especially coffee and cocoa growing regions of Latin America. I lead the Smithsonian Bird Friendly® program, which offers a gold standard certification for coffee and cocoa farms that...
A species of tree fern found only in Panama uses ‘zombie leaves’ or reanimated dead leaf fronds, and turns them into root structures that feed the mother plant.
The Winter lab studies how tropical plants, particularly trees, function and interact with their environment. We explore plant function in the field and under controlled conditions, at the whole organism level and at the level of individual organs, combining physiological, biochemical and...
A global center
for tropical science
A tropical research community
on the edge of the Panama Canal
Studying the forest
from the top down
Research in my lab seeks to understand the processes determining tropical forest biomass, dynamics, plant species composition, and diversity, and their variation within and among sites and over time. The biomass of a forest reflects the interplay of wood production via growth and loss via...
