Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
Institute of Pharmacy & Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)6221 544881; Fax: +49 (0)6221 544884
Website: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak14/ipmb/phazb/akwink.html
E-Mail: wink@uni-hd.de
Interests: molecular systematics and phylogeny of birds; reptiles; fish; insects and plants (genetic diversity); plant secondary metabolites (phytochemistry, biochemistry and molecular pharmacology): diversity of natural products
Editor
Dr. Le Zhang
MDPI Beijing Office, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170
E-Mail: le.zhang@mdpi.com
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
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Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Nuzhat Ahmed
Centre for Molecular Genetics, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
Tel. +92 21 4966 045; Fax: +92 21 9243 190
E-Mail: a_nuzhat@yahoo.com
Interests: biodiversity; genetics diversity; bacteria; bioremediation; sustainable management and conservation
Dr. Giovanni Bacaro
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali "G. Sarfatti", Università degli Studi di Siena, via P.A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
Tel. +39 0577235415; Fax: +39 3491425786
E-Mail: bacaro@unisi.it
Interests: biodiversity indices; biodiversity monitoring; conservation biology; effect of sampling design parameters on sampling efficiency; mediterranean landscape; model-based geostatistics; plant community ecology; spatial scales; species richness patters
Prof. Dr. William Balée
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
Tel. +1 504 862 3055; Fax: +1 504 865 5338
E-Mail: wbalee@tulane.edu
Interests: historical ecology; ethnobiology; amazonia
Contribution:
Special Issue: Long-Term Anthropic Influences on the Diversity of Amazonian Landscapes and Biota
Dr. Noelle A. Barkley
USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA 30223, USA
Tel. +1 770 412 4035; Fax: +1 770 229 3323
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=35336
E-Mail: elle.barkley@ars.usda.gov
Interests: molecular markers; phylogenetics; genetic diversity; population structure; molecular breeding; plant germplasm; germplasm conservation; gene expression; plant and insect interaction; viral detection and characterization phytochemicals
Dr. Adeline Barnaud
DST-NRF, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/cib/
E-Mail: abarnaud@sun.ac.za
Interests: evolution; crops; population genetics; conservation; plant breeding; farming system; traditional ecological knowledge
Dr. Andrés Baselga
Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela c/ Lope Gómez de Marzoa s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tel. +34 981 563100 ext. 13278
Website: http://webspersoais.usc.es/persoais/andres.baselga/
E-Mail: andres.baselga@usc.es
Interests: biodiversity; systematics; macroecology; diversity patterns; beta diversity; coleoptera
Dr. Gustavo Becerra Jurado
Freshwater Biodiversity, Ecology and Fisheries (FreBEF), School of Biology and Environmental Science, Science Education and Research Centre, West University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel. +353 1 7162339
E-Mail: gustavo.becerra@ucdconnect.ie
Interests: biodiversity; aquatic macroinvertebrates; wetlands; sustainable management and conservation
Prof. Dr. Carl Beierkuhnlein
Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Tel. +49 921552270; Fax: +49 921552315
Website: http://www.neu.uni-bayreuth.de/de/Uni_Bayreuth/Fakultaeten/2_Biologie_Chemie_und_Geowissenschaften/geowissenschaften/biogeo/de/team/Beierkuhnlein/index.html
E-Mail: carl.beierkuhnlein@uni-bayreuth.de
Interests: concepts of biodiversity; beta-diversity; biodiversity monitoring and sampling design; impacts of climate change on biodiversity; remote sensing in biodiversity research; scale dependency of biodiversity patterns
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biodiversity and Climate Change
Dr. Zoltán Botta-Dukát
Institute of Ecology and Botany, HAS, Alkotmany u. 2-4, 2163 Vacratot, Hungary
Tel. +36 28360147; Fax: +36 28360147
Website: http://www.botanika.hu/bdz/en
E-Mail: bdz@botanika.hu
Interests: functional diversity; assembly rules; plant invasion; applied statistics; phytosociology; macroecology
Dr. James J. Cai
Department of Biology, 371 Serra st., Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA
Tel. +1 650 736 2249; Fax: +1 650 736 1169
Website: http://stanford.edu/~jamescai/
E-Mail: jamescai@stanford.edu
Interests: human population genomics; molecular evolution and bioinformatics
Dr. Pedro Cardoso
Department of Zoology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 17, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Website: http://www.ennor.org/
E-Mail: pcardoso@ennor.org
Interests: biodiversity assessment and monitoring; prioritisation of areas and species for conservation; ecological modelling; island biogeography and macroecology; subterranean biology / biospeleology; validation and sharing of primary biodiversity data; spider taxonomy
Dr. Maria Teresa Ceccherini
Dipartimento Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta, Università degli Studi di Firenze, P.le delle Cascine, 28, 50144 Firenze, Italy
Tel. +39 055 3288219; Fax: +39 055 333273
E-Mail: mariateresa.ceccherini@unifi.it
Interests: soil DNA; soil RNA; real-time PCR; microbial ecology; forest soil
Dr. h.c. Jean Clobert
Director, Senior Researcher (DR hc) Station d\'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France
Tel. +33 5 61 04 03 69; Fax: +33 5 61 96 08 51
Website: http://www.ecoex-moulis.cnrs.fr/Staffpages/Jeanclobert.htm
E-Mail: jean.clobert@ecoex-moulis.cnrs.fr
Interests: population dynamics; life history strategy; dispersal; phenotypic plasticity; predation
Prof. Dr. Roberto Danovaro
Director Dept. Life and Environmental Sciences Polytechnic, University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
Tel. +39 0712 204654
Website: http://carex.hd20.hosting.punkt.de/network/associated-partners/roberto-danovaro.html
E-Mail: r.danovaro@univpm.it
Interests: marine nematodes; meiofauna; loricifera; marine biodiversity
Dr. Samir C. Debnath
Atlantic Cool Climate Crop Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Bldg. 25, 308 Brookfield Road, St. John's, NL A1E 0B2, Canada
Tel. +1 709 772 4788; Fax: +1 709 772 6064
Website: http://res.agr.ca/stjohns/
E-Mail: samir.debnath@agr.gc.ca
Interests: biodiversity; conservation; molecular markers; small fruits; germplasm; plant tissue culture; breeding
Dr. Jürgen Dengler
Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
Tel. +49 40 42816 403; Fax: +49 40 42816 539
Website: http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/fbha063/fbha063.htm
E-Mail: dengler@botanik.uni-hamburg.de
Interests: biodiversity patterns from square millimetres to global scale; species-area relationships; scale-dependent properties of biodiversity; theoretical ecology; vegetation classification; vegetation databases; phytosociology; methodological questions; dry grasslands; ruderal communities; vascular plants; bryophytes; lichens; conservation biology; vegetation ecology; macroecology; restoration ecology
Dr. Juan Traba Díaz
Terrestrial Ecology Group, Departament of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, c/ Darwin, 2. Madrid 28049, Spain
Tel. +34 91 497 8005
Website: http://www.uam.es/departamentos/ciencias/ecologia/PDOCENTE/Carpeta%20profesores/Juan%20Traba.htm
E-Mail: juan.traba@uam.es
Interests: Niche theory; habitat selection models; species distribution models; plant-animal interactions; ecology of dispersal
Prof. Dr. Mark C. Enright
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Old Medical School Building, St. Mary\'s Hospital, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 5943417; Fax: +44 (0)207 5943693
Website: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/m.enright/
E-Mail: m.c.enright@imperial.ac.uk
Interests: studies on the population biology; virulence and epidemiology of bacterial pathogens; hospital-acquired infection; molecular diagnostics; antimicrobial materials; methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Dr. Simone Fattorini
Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, Dep. Ciências Agrárias, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
Water Ecology Team, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan, Italy
E-Mail: simone_fattorini@virgilio.it
Interests: biodiversity; cladistics; coleoptera tenebrionidae; community ecology; conservation biology; evolutionary biology; historical biogeography; island biogeography; systematics and taxonomy
Dr. Jordi Figuerola
Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica Doñana, CSIC Avda. Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Tel. +34 954 466700 Ext. 1200
Website: http://www.ebd.csic.es/jordi/
E-Mail: jordi@ebd.csic.es
Interests: conservation biology; dispersal; connectivity; wetlands; host pathogen interactions; emerging infectious diseases; status signalling
Dr. Yong-Bi Fu
Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada
Tel. +1 306 956 7642; Fax: +1 306 956 7246
Website: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1181940775526&lang=eng
E-Mail: yong-bi.fu@agr.gc.ca
Interests: crop genetic diversity and domestication; plant population and conservation genetics; molecular characterization and conservation of plant germplasm; in situ conservation and utilization of native plants; molecular markers and DNA sequence analysis
Dr. José M. García del Barrio
CIFOR-INIA, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Resources, Crta LA Coruña km 7, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 3476858; Fax: +34 91 3476767
Website: http://www.inia.es/
E-Mail: jmgarcia@inia.es
Interests: biodiversity monitoring; vascular plants diversity patterns; alpha; beta and gamma diversity; land use changes and landscape diversity; forest and landscape ecology
Dr. José Luis García-Marín
LIG-UdG, Campus de Montilivi s/n, E-17071-Girona, Spain
Tel. +34 972418961
Website: http://www.udg.edu/planapersonal/tabid/8656/Default.aspx?ID=2000212
E-Mail: joseluis.garcia@udg.edu
Interests: conservation genetics; fisheries management; genetics of invasive species; phylogenetics; population genetics
Dr. József Geml
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Section National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9514, Einsteinweg 2, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
E-Mail: jozsef.geml@gmail.com
Interests: biodiversity; molecular systematics and phylogeography of fungi
Dr. Malgorzata Grodzinska-Jurczak
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
Tel. +48 12 664 5202
Website: http://www.eko.uj.edu.pl/ee/grodzinska_eng.html
E-Mail: m.grodzinska-jurczak@uj.edu.pl
Interests: human dimension of natural resources; human-nature conflicts’ resolving in protected areas; natura 2000 implementation (communication, awareness raising); environmental awareness of public; public participation in waste management; environmental education in formal and non-formal system
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural Resources: Human Dimension and Social Aspects of Nature Protection
Dr. Klaus Henle
Department of Conservation Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel. +49 341 235 1270; Fax: +49 341 235 1470
E-Mail: klaus.henle@ufz.de
Interests: biodiversity monitoring; bioindicators; connectivity; floodplain ecology; habitat fragmentation; population biology; reserve site selection; amphibians; reptiles
Prof. Dr. Torbjörn Järvi
National Board of Fisheries, Institute of Freshwater Research, S-178 93 Drottningholm, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 620 04 43; Fax: + 46 8 759 03 38.
E-Mail: torbjorn.jarvi@fiskeriverket.se
Interests: evolution; behavioural ecology; conservation biology; fish species; especially salmonids
Dr. Collins A. Kimbeng
Sugarcane breeding and genetics, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter), Sugar Research Station, 5755 LSU AgRoad, St. Gabriel, LA 70776, USA
Tel. +1 225 578 7577; Fax: +1 225 578 1403
Website: http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/communications/authors/CKimbeng.htm
E-Mail: ckimbeng@agctr.lsu.edu
Interests: improving early generation selection in sugarcane; development of sugarcane germplasm using conventional and molecular approaches; genetics of sugarcane
Dr. Ipek Kurtboke
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, School of Science, Education and Engineering, Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
Tel. +61 (07) 5430 2819; Fax: +61 (07) 5430 2881
Website: http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Staff/011745.htm
E-Mail: ikurtbok@usc.edu.au
Interests: microbial diversity; microbial systematics; ecophysiology of microorganisms; functional diversity of microorganisms; microbial ecosystems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Genetic and Functional Diversity of Microorganisms
In other journals:
Special Issue: Bioactive Compounds from Marine Microorganisms
Prof. Dr. Jean-Bernard Lachavanne
Laboratoire d'Ecologie et de Biologie Aquatique, University of Geneva, 18 ch. des Clochettes, CH-1206 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel. +41 232 705 7104; Fax: +41 22 789 4989
Website: http://anthropologie.unige.ch/LEBA/
E-Mail: anjean-bernard.lachavne@unige.ch
Interests: macrophytes; bioindication; eutrophication; sustainable development
Dr. Richard Ladle
School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1865 285070
Website: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rladle.html
E-Mail: richard.ladle@geog.ox.ac.uk
Interests: representation of conservation science in the media to the use of macroinvertebrates for stream biomonitoring; study of ecotourism capacity on the Island of Tobago; the development of standard protocols for assessing conservation and environmental attitudes; explaining morphological variation in crabs and corals inhabiting spatially heterogeneous environments; global analysis of the relationship between poverty and protected areas
Dr. Luc Legal
EcoLab – Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, UMR 5245 (CNRS-UPS-INPT) Batiment IVR1 / Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
Tel. +33 (0)5 61 55 61 36; Fax: +33 (0)5 61 55 60 96
Website: http://www.ecolab.ups-tlse.fr/spip.php?article611&decoupe_recherche=luc%20legal&lang=en
E-Mail: luc.legal@univ-tlse3.fr
Interests: molecular evolution; dynamic of communities and populations; plant-insects interactions, ecology; tools: Mitochondrial DNA; ISSR; cuticular hydrocarbons; field ecology; model organisms: Lepidoptera; diptera; spiders
Contribution:
Special Issue: Diversity of Plant-Insect Interactions
Dr. Luisa Maffi
Terralingua, 1766 Lanier Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20009, USA
Tel. +1 202 986 6139
Website: http://www.terralingua.org/
E-Mail: maffi@terralingua.org
Interests: linguistic diversity and language rights; relationships between language, knowledge, and the environment and on the links between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity
Dr. Daniel K. Manter
USDA-ARS-NPA, Soil-Plant-Nutrient Research Unit, 2150 Centre Avenue, Building D, Suite 100 Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Tel. +1 970 472 5144; Fax: +1 970 492 7213
E-Mail: daniel.manter@ars.usda.gov
Interests: biodiversity; microbial ecology; rhizosphere biology; plant-pathogen interactions; mechanisms of plant defense
Contribution:
Special Issue: Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Prof. Dr. Michael Manthey
Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
Tel. +49 3834 864128; Fax: +49 3834 864114
E-Mail: manthey@uni-greifswald.de
Interests: biodiversity; plant diversity; beta diversity; macroecology; biogeography; diversity patterns; vegetation ecology
Dr. Lorenzo Marini
University of Padova, DAFNAE-Entomology, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Tel. +390498272807; Fax: +390498272810
Website: http://www.biodiversity-lorenzomarini.eu
E-Mail: lorenzo.marini@unipd.it
Interests: agri-environment schemes; agroecology; conservation biology; ecosystem management; grassland; insects; landscape ecology; land-use change; mountain ecology; plants; species-elevation gradient
Dr. Joyce Maschinski
The Arboretum at Flagstaff, 4001 S. Woody, Mountain Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
Tel. +1 520 774 1442; Fax: +1 520 774 1441
Website: http://www.thearb.org/
E-Mail: joyce.maschinski@nau.edu
Interests: plant population ecology; reintroductions; population viability plant-herbivore interactions; ex situ conservation
Dr. Pia Moisander
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA
Tel. +1 508 999 8222
Website: http://moisanderlab.org
E-Mail: pmoisander@umassd.edu
Prof. Dr. Jorge A. Mosjidis
Dept. Agronomy and Soils, 201 Funchess Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5412, USA
Tel. +1 334 844 3976; Fax: +1 334 844 3945
Website: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/agrn/faculty/mosijidis.html
E-Mail: mosjija@auburn.edu
Interests: plant genetics and breeding; genetic diversity of crop plants; conservation of plant germ plasm; crop ecophysiology
Dr. Cristina Munari
Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione, Università di Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
Tel. +39 0532 455315; Fax: +39 0532 249761
E-Mail: cristina.munari@unife.it
Interests: benthic diversity patterns; coastal and transitional waters; biodiversity assessment and monitoring; spatial scales of diversity; macrofauna; biotic indicators
Contribution:
Special Issue: Spatial and Temporal Benthic Diversity Patterns
Dr. David Nogués-Bravo
Center for Macroecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel. +4535321258
Website: http://www.biochange-lab.eu/people/dr-david-nogues-bravo
E-Mail: dnogues@bio.ku.dk
Interests: biogeography; macroecology; climate change; species richness patterns; late quaternary extinctions; species distribution modes
Prof. Dr. Richard B. Norgaard
Energy and Resources Program, 310 Barrows Hall, MC 3050, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 – 3050, USA
E-Mail: norgaard@berkeley.edu
Interests: epistemology and sociology of understanding complex systems; ecological economics and development as coevolution: economics of climate change; development; energy; environment; sustainability and trade
Dr. Piotr Nowicki
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
Tel. +48 12 664 5125; Fax: +48 12 664 6912
Website: http://www.eko.uj.edu.pl/index.php?&lang=en
E-Mail: piotr.nowicki@uj.edu.pl
Interests: biodiversity conservation; species monitoring; population and metapopulations dynamics; butterfly ecology; natura 2000 implementation; wildlife management
Prof. Dr. Lionel Obadia
Doctoral School in Social Sciences of Lyon (ED 483), 86 rue Pasteur, 69007 Lyon, France
Tel. +33 4 78 77 23 86; Fax: +33 4 78 77 24 88
E-Mail: lionel.obadia@univ-lyon2.fr
Interests: religion and nature; cultural and traditional forms of development and sustainability; non-western forms of development; the globalization of standards of development and ecology; critical perspectives on sustainability; beliefs and ideologies of “environment” and their applications; cultural habits towards material culture; recycling and politics of pollution reduction
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Pluralism
In other journals:
Special Issue: Religion & Globalization
Prof. Dr. Mario A. Pagnotta
Department of Science and Technologies for Agriculture, Forestry, Nature and Energy (DAFNE), Tuscia University, Via S. C. de Lellis, snc 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Tel. +39.0761.357423; Fax: +39.0761.357242
E-Mail: pagnotta@unitus.it
Interests: plant population genetics; plant evolution and domestication; in situ and ex situ conservation of plant germplasm; molecular characterization; molecular markers; molecular evolution; plant breeding
Contribution:
Special Issue: Assessment of Plant Genetic Diversity
Special Issue: Biodiversity Loss & Habitat Fragmentation
Special Issue: Use of Molecular Markers in Genetic Diversity Research
Dr. Lorraine Pariset
Department for innovation in biological, agro-food and forest systems (DIBAF), Università degli Studi della Tuscia, via San Camillo de Lellis s.n.c, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Tel. +39 0761 357354; Fax: +39 0761 357434
E-Mail: pariset@unitus.it
Interests: population genetics; genetic diversity of livestock; biodiversity; molecular evolution; domestication; molecular analysis of ancient DNA; breeding strategies; genetic disorders; microarrays
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biological Diversity Assessed by Molecular Methods
Prof. Dr. Luciane Passaglia
Núcleo de Microbiologia Agrícola Departamento de Genética-IB Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, prédio 43312, sala 207b Porto Alegre, RS, CEP 91501-970, Brazil
Tel. + 55 (051) 33089813; Fax: + 55 (051) 33087311
Website: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4786006Y0
E-Mail: lpassaglia@terra.com.br
Interests: molecular microbiology; plant growth promoting bacteria; diversity of microorganisms; biological nitrogen fixation; plant-bacteria interaction
Dr. Mark Poffenberger
Community Forestry International, Inc., 1356 Mokelumne Dr., Antioch, CA. 94531, USA
Tel. +1 925-706-2906
E-Mail: mpoffen@aol.com
Interests: community forestry; human ecology; agroecology; forest policy; resource management
Dr. Carlo Ricotta
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P.zale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39 06 4991 2408; Fax: + 39 06 445 7540
E-Mail: carlo.ricotta@uniroma1.it
Interests: community ecology; diversity indices; functional traits; landscape ecology; scaling; spatial ecology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Diversity Theories and Perspectives
Dr. Duccio Rocchini
GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via Mach 1, 38010 San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
Tel. +39 0461615570; Fax: +39 3491425786
Website: http://gis.fem-environment.eu/rocchini/
E-Mail: ducciorocchini@gmail.com
Interests: ecological Informatics; ecological heterogeneity and biodiversity estimate by satellite imagery; Free and Open Source Software for spatial ecology; statistical analysis of spatial and ecological data
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Ecological Status and Change by Remote Sensing
Special Issue: Geospatial Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Change
Dr. Raúl Romero-Calcerrada
School of Experimental Sciences and Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Calle Tulipán, s/n. E-28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 4888520; Fax: +34 91 4887068
E-Mail: raul.romero.calcerrada@urjc.es
Interests: landscape monitoring with GIS and remote sensing; modelling human-landscape interactions; land-use/cover change; human ignition risk; natural protected areas; landscape ecology
Dr. Jean-Pierre Rossi
INRA, UMR CBGP (INRA / IRD / Cirad / Montpellier SupAgro), Campus international de Baillarguet, CS 30016, F-34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex, France
Tel. +33 4 30 63 04 30; Fax: +33 4 99 62 33 45
E-Mail: rossi@supagro.inra.fr
Interests: biodiversity assessment and monitoring; spatial ecology; landscape ecology; soil macrofauna; forest entomology; ecological indicators
Dr. Joana Falcão Salles
Microbial Ecology Department, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen Centre for Life Sciences, P.O. BOX 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0) 50 363 2162; Fax: +31 (0) 50 363 2154
Website: http://www.rug.nl/biologie/onderzoek/onderzoekgroepen/microbieleoecologie/organisatie/staff_members/assistant_prof
E-Mail: j.falcao.salles@rug.nl
Interests: microbial ecology; microbial diversity; denitrification; nitrification; biological nitrogen fixation; functional and taxonomic diversity; microbial communities
Dr. Dirk S. Schmeller
Helmholtz-Center of Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Website: http://www.dirk.die-schmellers.de/
E-Mail: dirk.schmeller@ufz.de
Interests: biodiversity monitoring; conservation biology; molecular diversity; population size; invasive species; range distribution; population genetics; evolutionary ecology; diseases of herptiles
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schmidtlein
Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 166, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)228 73 5394
Website: http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/arbeitsgruppe-schmidtlein/staff/schmidtlein
E-Mail: s.schmidtlein@uni-bonn.de
Interests: biogeography; vegetation science; species richness pattern; remote sensing; imaging spectroscopy; species distribution models and scenarios
Prof. Dr. Andrew Thompson
School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
Tel. +61 8 9360 2466; Fax: +61 8 9310 4144
E-Mail: a.thompson@murdoch.edu.au
Interests: parasitology; parasite ecology; molecular epidemiology; wildlife diseases; zoonoses
Dr. Kostas Triantis
Azorean Biodiversity Group, Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias Terra-Chã, 9701-851 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
Tel. +351 295402234; Fax: +351 295402205
Website: http://www.angra.uac.pt/gba/people_kt.html
E-Mail: konstantinos.triantis@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Interests: island biogeography and macroecology; scale in ecological and biogeographical analysis; environmental heterogeneity and conservation biogeography
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biodiversity Feature Papers
Dr. Andreas Tribsch
Department of Organismic Biology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Tel. +43 662 80445504; Fax: +43 662 8044142
Website: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/portal/page?_pageid=163,209964&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
E-Mail: andreas.tribsch@sbg.ac.at
Interests: plant systematics & phylogenetics; conservation genetics; molecular ecology; molecular markers in ecology and biosystematics; genetic diversity in natural populations; species diversity; arctic and alpine plants; diversity & global change
Contribution:
Special Issue: Molecular Systematic and Genetic Diversity
Dr. Deivida Vandzinskaite
Social Research Scientific Center, Department of Philosophy and Anthropology, Siauliai University, P. Visinskio 38, LT 76352 Siauliai, Lithuania
Tel. +370 652 496; Fax: +370 41 435 459
E-Mail: deivida@gmail.com
Interests: education and anthropology; cultural differences and commonalities in educational practice; public interest anthropology; cultural diversity and power; participatory development and voluntary culture; social dilemmas and inequality along lines of race; ethnicity; class; status; age or gender; environmental anthropology; human cultural and social behavior in relation to the environmental contexts
Dr. Thomas Wohlgemuth
Research Unit Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 737 2317; Fax: +41 44 737 2215
Website: http://www.wsl.ch/info/mitarbeitende/wohlgemu/index_EN?redir=1
E-Mail: wohlgemuth@wsl.ch
Interests: biodiversity in time and space; disturbance ecology; plant species richness; regeneration patterns; sampling design; vegetation ecology
Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Wurdig Roesch
Universidade Federal do PAMPA, Campus São Gabriel, Av. Antonio Trilha 1847, São Gabriel RS, CEP: 97300-000, Brazil
Tel. +55 3232 6075; Fax: +55 3232 6075
E-Mail: luizroesch@unipampa.edu.br
Interests: microbial diversity; new generation sequencing; metagenome; plant microbial interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Microbial Diversity: From the Biosphere to the Human Microbiome
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