Florencia Montagnini has over 30 years of experience researching and teaching in topics on sustainability of managed ecosystems such as forest, tree plantations, and agroforestry systems. Her research encompasses sustainable land-use systems that integrate ecological principles with economic, social, and political factors; the principles and applications of forest landscape restoration; the reforestation of degraded lands with native species; organic farming using indigenous resources; biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes; and biodiversity islands. Since 1989, she has worked as a professor and researcher at the Yale School of the Environment, as well as the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). She has written 12 books and almost 300 scientific articles about the ecology of tropical forests, agroforestry systems, native species reforestation, forest landscape restoration, and biodiversity islands.