Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.
• ² Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• ³ Biology Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
• ⁴ Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
• ⁵ Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
• ⁶ Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
• ⁷ Department of Biology, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Missouri, United States of America.
• ⁸ School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.
• ⁹ Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America.
• ¹⁰ Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
• ¹¹ Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
• ¹² Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Institute of the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.
• ¹³ Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.
• ¹⁴ Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington DC, United States of America.
• ¹⁵ Department of Biology, University of Hawai'i, Hilo, Hawai'i, United States of America.
• ¹⁶ Departments of Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior and Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
• ¹⁷ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America.
• ¹⁸ Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America.
• ¹⁹ Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
• ²⁰ School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell, Washington, United States of America.
• ²¹ Department of Biology Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.