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Heather A Hager Editor

Heather A. Hager is an ecologist and natural sciences research facilitator at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and an award-winning textile artist.

David J. Gibson is a plant ecologist and Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. He is the author of Grasses and Grassland Ecology (2009) and co-editor of Grasslands and Climate Change (2019).

Jonathan A. Newman is a temperate grassland ecologist and Vice President: Research at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is co-author of Defending Biodiversity (2017) and co-editor of Grasslands and Climate Change (2019).