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humanity and non-human life on earth. To suc-
cessfully meet this daunting challenge, we will
need to significantly overhaul the way we do
science.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Walter Carson and Stefan Schnitzer for
inviting me to contribute to their book, and for
being so patient with me for delivery of my
chapter. I thank the National Science Foundation,
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foun-
dation, the A. K. Mellon Foundation, the Pew
Charitable Trusts, the Guggenheim Foundation,
the Celara Foundation, the Smithsonian Tropi-
cal Research Institute, and the more than 100
collaborators and field assistants who have sup-
ported or worked on the BCI Forest Dynamics
project. I particularly thank Robin Foster, Rick
Condit, Joe Wright, Rolando Perez, and Salomon
Aguilar for their long-term collaboration on the
BCI project. I thank Ira Rubinoff and Peter Ash-
ton for major efforts in launching and financing
the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS),
and Elizabeth Losos and Stuart Davies for their
direction of CTFS.
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