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Tropical Dry Forests: Land of the Living Dead

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Near the end of a long midwestern winter I got a call from a Dr. Stephen Weller at the University of California, Irvine, regarding a postdoctoral fellowship in restoration ecology at the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) on the island of Kaua‘i. He explained that the original plan to fly the top three candidates to Hawai‘i to interview with him and the garden staff had fallen through, but if I was still interested, the position was mine.

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Cabin, R.J. (2011). Tropical Dry Forests: Land of the Living Dead. In: Intelligent Tinkering. The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-040-8_1

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