Advisory Board and Editors Biodiversity
James Davis Reimer
James Davis Reimer's research focuses on the biodiversity of understudied marine invertebrate groups (so-called "minor taxa"), primarily benthic cnidarians including zoantharians and their endosymbionts, as well as octocorals, from shallow tropical coral reefs to the deep sea. Recent research has also examined the impact of coastal development on marine diversity and ecosystems. Since 2007, he has been based at the University of the Ryukyus, where he is now a professor.
In 2015, he was awarded the Okinawa Research Prize for science contributing to the well-being and understanding of the Ryukyu Islands, and in 2021, he was awarded the Narishige Prize by the Zoological Society of Japan in recognition of his unique research output.
Ana I.F. Ribeiro-Barros
PhD in Plant Molecular Biology (1997, Wageningen University and Research);
Director of the Tropical College, University of Lisbon (ULisboa);
Head of Research Lab and Professor of Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology and Tropical Ecosystems (School of Agriculture, ULisboa);
Invited professor Universidade da Madeira (Portugal), Eduardo Mondlane University and Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique;
Area of scientific activity (25+ years): Agrobiotechnology applied to the management and characterization of agro-forestry resources: Biodiversity; Conservation Genetics; Ethnobotany; Landscape genomics; Molecular Ecology; Plant-Environment Interactions (symbioses, pathogenesis and abiotic stresses); Soil diversity.
Scientific Identifiers:
Ciência Vitae: 081F-E3CE-9D52
ORCID: 0000-0002-6071-6460
Scopus: 35557486600
Google: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=en&authuser=2&user=hzAWUTUAAAAJ
Tony Robillard
Professor at Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Curator of insect collections and sound library. Scientific head of the edition service of MNHN. My research focusses on the diversity of communication systems in orthopteran insects in space and time. I use multidisciplinary approaches combining phylogenetics, biogeography, taxonomy, bioacoustics, biomechanics, behavioral studies and data obtained both in the lab and in the field.
Luiz F. W. Roesch
Dr. Luiz F. W. Roesch is an Associate Professor within the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida.
Dr. Roesch is microbial ecologist working with biomarkers of health and disease in human samples and of homeostasis or perturbation in environmental models. His research focuses on testing fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology, especially in the Human Microbiome.
Dr. Roesch's primary expertise is in Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, and 16S rRNA surveys.
Gary Rosenberg
Pilsbry Chair of Malacology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University. Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Editor for Mollusca, World Register of Marine Species and MolluscaBase.
His research focuses on the origins and magnitude of diversity of the Mollusca, with active research currently in the Philippines (marine and terrestrial mollusks) and Jamaica (land snails). He uses biodiversity databases to better document the known diversity of mollusks and to estimate their total diversity.
Yann Salmon
University researcher in tree ecophysiology at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki
Sarah Samadi
Sarah Samadi is professor at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The common background of all her scientific activities is the analysis of the conceptual grounds of systematics and evolutionary biology. Her present empirical projects are mainly in the fields of species delimitations and of speciation processes. Most of her projects are focusing on organisms from poorly known environments (mainly deep-sea environments, notably seamounts and organic remains sunken on the deep-sea floor) and are developed in the methodological framework of “Integrative Taxonomy”, in which methods in phylogenetics, population genetics and ecology are combined.
Marta I Sánchez
I’m a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Doñana Biological Station (Spanish Council of Scientific Research, CSIC), Seville, Spain. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center of Functional Ecology and Evolution (CEFE-CNRS) and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), Montpellier, France. My research focuses on understanding the processes regulating aquatic ecosystem functioning. In particular I’m interested in the complex influence of waterbirds on wetland ecosystems via predation and dispersal of propagules, the role of trophically transmitted parasites (mainly those manipulating host behaviour) and biological invasions.
Carlos A Santamaria
Santamaria’s primary research interests are on cryptic biodiversity and phylogeography of coastal invertebrates, particularly those from highly biodiverse and geologically active regions such as Hawai’i, southern Africa, Pacific Islands, the Greater Caribbean Region, the Mediterranean and the Baja Peninsula of Mexico.
As a Hispanic, he is aware of the difficulties that under-represented students face in higher education and when pursuing careers in the biological sciences. Thus, he is dedicated to increasing their participation in the sciences. He has mentored undergraduates who self-identify as members of underrepresented groups in his research activities. He also participates in community outreach events as well as professional development programs geared towards developing a better understanding of the needs of a multi-cultural student body and to improve the participation of under-represented groups in the sciences.
Maria J Santos
Assistant Professor in Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University.
My research combines field methods, GIS, remote sensing, statistical modeling, historical archival research, and conservation biology, history, and planning. I focus on four research areas:
* Assessing interaction and feedback mechanisms of social-ecological systems in space and time
* Identifying global change drivers through conservation histories and relate them to changes and fluxes in species and ecosystems, land use policy, and environmental governance
* Investigating how land use and climate changes affect spatial and temporal dynamics of species and habitat at multiple scales
* Use of state of the art remote sensing, GIS and quantitative analysis to answer interdisciplinary research questions
Hugo Sarmento
Professor in the Department of Hydrobiology of the Universidade Federal of São Carlos (UFSCar). Head of the Laboratory of Microbial Processes and Biodiversity, my research area is aquatic microbial ecology, with emphasis on biotic interactions, structure and function of planktonic communities in all compartments of the food web (viruses, bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton) mainly in tropical aquatic environments.
Juliana Schietti
I am a plant ecologist and my interests include forest structure and dynamics, species diversity, plant traits and relationships with environmental gradients. I am an Ecology professor and researcher at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and an associate researcher at the National Institute for Amazonia Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil.