Charles Peters

Charles Peters is a plant ecologist specializing in the description and analysis of tropical trees populations. He studied forestry at the University of Arkansas and received his Masters and Ph.D. in ecology from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has been investigating the ecology, use, and management of tropical forest resources for more than 20 years. Dr. Peters has lived and conducted long-term research in two of the largest and least explored tropical regions in the world, lowland Amazonia and the island of Borneo, and also has extensive experience working in the managed forests of Mayan Mexico. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers and articles, and he has written two books on the sustainable management of tropical forests. He teaches ecology at Yale and Columbia University and is the editor of the monograph series Advances in Economic Botany. Dr. Peters is currently the Kate E. Tode Curator of Botany at the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden".