Biotropica Announces a New Editor-In-Chief

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Biotropica is pleased to announce its ninth editor, Professor Rhett D. Harrison. Professor Harrison is a senior scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF based in Zambia. He received his PhD from Kyoto University in 2000, studying fig–fig wasp interactions in Borneo, and did postdocs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Research Institute for Humanity & Nature, and the Forest Research Institute Malaysia before taking a position at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in 2009. In 2013, he moved to the Kunming Institute of Botany to head up their laboratory of tropical forest conservation, before moving to Zambia in 2016 with World Agroforestry (ICRAF). He brings a wealth of experience in tropical biology and conservation, studying questions in the fields of landscape ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, agroecology, and restoration. Through his research, which is invariably transdisciplinary, he has collaborated with a wide variety of people and institutions. Current projects include developing methods for community conservation monitoring in Papua New Guinea and DRC, community forestry in Zambia, Cocoa Agroforestry in Sierra Leone, and agroecological approaches to pest management in southern Africa. In 2006, he set up the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation (ATBC). He has previously served as a subject editor for Ecological Research and the Journal of Plant Research, and Editor-in-Chief for the Malayan Nature Journal. We welcome Dr. Harrison and look forward to his leadership.