Sebastian Tello (Missouri Botanical Garden), Selene Baez (Escuela Politécnica Nacional del Ecuador), and Jonathan were awarded a Living Earth Collaborative Grant for their working group “A Synthesis of Patterns and Mechanisms of Diversity and Forest Change in the Andes: A Global Biodiversity Hotspot”. The first working-group meeting will be held in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2018. Click here to view the abstract on the Living Earth Collaborative website.