Advisory Board and Editors Biogeography
Kenneth De Baets
I am a paleobiologist. My main research focuses on reproductive strategies and macroevolution, particularly on the contributions of biotic interactions (e.g., parasitism) and abiotic factors (e.g., climate) in controlling evolutionary and diversity patterns. To this end, I work with a variety of approaches that combine research on fossil molluscs, coprolites and fieldwork with large-scale quantitative analyses. Other interests are quantitative methods to study biostratigraphy, intraspecific variability and paleobiology in general. My main taxonomic expertise is on invertebrates, mainly (extinct) cephalopod mollusks and parasitic helminths. The promotion of diversity and young scientists as well as scientific collaboration and reproducibility in paleontology are particularly close to my heart.
Bryn TM Dentinger
Head of Mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Antonina Dos Santos
Dr. Antonina dos Santos is a research scientist at the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) and leads the Plankton and crustacean Lab. Antonina has been studying taxonomy and ecology of crustacean larvae in Portugal seas.
Much of Antonina research has been the study of unexplored phase of living resources, focusing her studies on larval dispersal and recruitment to the origin population. Besides working on the dispersal and recruitment of crustacean larvae she has also done some work on the taxonomy of the adult phase of caridean shrimps (Decapoda). In 2016 she created the GelAvista citizen science project to monitor the stranding's of jellyfish in Portuguese coasts. Antonina research topics is to investigate how environmental conditions influence ecological patterns and processes, such as abundance and productivity, distribution, and size structure of plankton species. She has been involved in many scientific multidisciplinary projects subject to competitive tendering national and European, and she has been chief scientist on more than 15 multidisciplinary oceanographic surveys off the Portuguese coast. Since 2014 she is the Portuguese member of ICES Science Committee. Antonina has previously worked as Director of the Department of Sea and Marine Resources at IPMA.
Scott V. Edwards
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. President, Society for the Study of Evolution (2011-12); President, Society of Systematic Biologists (2007); President, American Genetic Association (2011). Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009); American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009); Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015).
Daniel Erasmus
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Northern British Columbia. My research focuses on using molecular biology, chemical, and ecological analysis tools to characterize and understand the interactions between macro-invertebrates and fish.
Marcial Escudero
Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville (Spain). Past postdoctoral researcher at Doñana Biological Station (CSIC, Seville, Spain), at the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago (Illionois, USA) and at The Morton Arboretum (Lisle, Illinois, USA). Past PhD student at University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain).
Brant C Faircloth
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University and Research Associate as the LSU Museum of Natural Sciences. Research interests include population and evolutionary genomics of non-model organisms; community genomics; genotype-phenotype interactions; (immuno-)genetic basis of mate choice; mating behavior; social behavior; and natural history.
Deb Finn
Stream Ecologist, wandering scholar, currently Prometeo Fellow of the Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Republic of Ecuador. Formerly Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, University of Birmingham. Board of Directors, Freshwaters Illustrated. Newsletter editor and Hynes Award winner, Society for Freshwater Science.
Christopher J Glasby
Chris Glasby is a specialist in the systematics – taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography – of Annelida, specifically polychaetes (marine bristle worms). He is emeritus Curator of Annelids at the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin and an Honorary Research Associate of the Australian Museum, Sydney.
Philippe Grandcolas
Head of the Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris (UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE); Member of the Scientific Council, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Past Scientific Secretary, National Comittee CNRS; Past President, Willi Hennig Society; Associate Editor of Cladistics, Bionomina
Tamar Guy-Haim
My main research interests are marine biodiversity and biogeography, with particular emphasis on species interactions, bioinvasions, and climate change. I use multidisciplinary approaches and combine experimental ecology, physiology, biogeochemistry, phylogeny, and modeling.
Steven Heritage
Dr. Steven Heritage is a teaching professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a a clinical & evolutionary anatomist, mammalogist, and phylogenetic biologist mainly working on African mammals. He also serves as a coordinator for the IUCN SSC Afrotheria Specialist Group.