“The children of the Sun and Moon are the gardens”—How people, plants, and a living Sun shape life on Tanna, Vanuatu

• Michael J. Balick ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mbalick@nybg.org

  Affiliation Center for Plants, People and Culture, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-1756

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• Dominik M. Ramík,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent scholar, Lowanatom, Tanna, Vanuatu

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• Nadine Ramík,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Independent scholar, Lowanatom, Tanna, Vanuatu

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• Iahwa Kausas Nemisa Kumas,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ieni Kausas and Tupunus of Lamanamileg, Tanna, Vanuatu

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• Gregory M Plunkett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Plants, People and Culture, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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• Neal Kelso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Independent scholar, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Presley Dovo,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Vanuatu Department of Forests, Port Vila, Vanuatu

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• K. David Harrison

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Plants, People and Culture, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States of America, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4002-7668

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