Montgomery hosted the 2nd meeting of the Network for Neotropical Biogeography (NNTBG) in January. The meeting brought together over 60 experts from around the world who work with tropical plants and other organisms in the New World.
The NNTBG works to promote coordination and interaction among scientists working in the tropics. Bring together representatives from as many research groups as possible working on neotropical biogeography and evolution
regardless of methodology, data source, spatial/temporal scale, or organismal group studied. Talks came from a variety of fields such as molecular phylogenetics, paleontology and ecology.
