{"id":1535,"name":"Mauricio Diazgranados","url":"","description":"Mauricio Diazgranados leads strategic positioning and planning for Science at NYBG. He directs and oversees the activities of the various components of NYBG Science, including: the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium; the LuEsther T. Mertz Library; the Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research; the Center for Biodiversity & Evolution; the Center for Plants, People and Culture; the Center for Conservation and Restoration Ecology; and the Commodore Matthew Perry Graduate Studies Program. Rooted in the Garden\u2019s state-of-the-art resources and robust collections, he is also helping to build cross-institutional, global collaborations to help address the dual climate and biodiversity crises.\r\n\r\nHis research develops plant & fungal diversity approaches to support communities in locations and economies where nutritional, income, and biodiversity issues are of paramount importance. His projects focus on studying utilized, neglected and under-utilized plants, their main threats and conservation status, and their sustainable use, primarily in the Tropics. He is also interested in how climate change is affecting these plants and the related ecosystem services. He uses an interdisciplinary approach, integrating biodiversity, economic botany, ethnobotany, systematics, macroevolution, biogeography, restoration, and conservation biology. Also, he has a strong track record in working on the flora of the P\u00e1ramos and Andean ecosystems of South America, in aspects including taxonomy, molecular systematics, biogeography, climate change impact and plant uses. He specializes in the Asteraceae family, and in particular in the Espeletia group (a.k.a. frailejones).","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/mauriciodiazgranados\/","slug":"mauriciodiazgranados","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":61748,"full":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled.jpg","blog_id":1,"192":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-96x96.jpg","250":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-250x250.jpg","125":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-125x125.jpg","24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCO-M10R5833-scaled-48x48.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}