Liza Comita is the Davis-Denkmann Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology in the School of the Environment at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. She is also a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and former co-director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture. Her research focuses on the ecological mechanisms driving patterns of plant diversity, dynamics, and species distributions in both intact and human-altered tropical forests. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Master’s degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia.
