Astro‐ecology? Shifting the interdisciplinary collaboration paradigm

We present a case study whereby ecological research on fallen trees in forest plots was advanced by a collaboration with astronomers working on the vector fields of stars and gas, and we propose a framework by which such novel collaborations can progress. The transfer of methods and analytical approaches across disciplinary boundaries (termed “migration” by Geertz, 1980) has become an important feature of scientific studies (Klein, 1999), often...