# Monica Gagliano
**Entity class:** Person
**Domain:** evolutionary ecologist
## Definition
**Monica Gagliano** is a evolutionary ecologist. At ICE, served as an ICE fellow and joined the Plant Intelligence dialogue.
## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments
researches plant behavior, learning, signaling, and cognition claims in non-neural organisms; her work is influential and contested, requiring careful separation of observed behavior from anthropomorphic interpretation.
## Relationships
- **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]].
- **wider alignments:** [[wiki/Plant Intelligence|Plant Intelligence]], evolutionary ecology, and diverse intelligence.
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.monicagagliano.com/)
- [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)