“…Many tropical savannas and dry forests have suffered high rates of conversion, both historically (e.g., Latin American dry forests; DRYFLOR, 2016) and more recently (e.g., the savannas of the Brazilian cerrado), but despite this have suffered relative neglect by science and conservation. Indeed, in a parallel with the phenomenon of “plant awareness disparity” (Parsley, 2020; previously “plant blindness”), which has been the theme of a special issue of Plants, People, Planet (Sanders, 2019), tropical dry biomes are also apparently invisible to many audiences, or at least under‐appreciated, especially compared with tropical rain forest. Such “biome awareness disparity” can be a source of threat to tropical dry biomes: for example, it has been pointed out that tropical savannas should not be a global priority for reforestation because this ignores their unique biodiversity and the fact that they are not, in fact, forests at all (Veldman et al., 2019).…”