Supporting institutions

Australia

Griffith University : Prof. Roger Kitching ( r.kitching@griffith.edu.au )

Belgium

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences : Dr. Maurice Leponce ( Maurice.Leponce@naturalsciences.be )

Université Libre de Bruxelles : Prof. Yves Roisin ( yroisin@ulb.ac.be ) & Dr. Olivier Hardy( ohardy@ulb.ac.be )

Ministère de la région wallonne : Dr. Marc Dufrêne (M.Dufrene@mrw.wallonie.be)

Brazil

Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz : Prof. Jacques Delabie ( delabie@nuxnet.com.br )

Federal University of Ouro Preto : Prof. Sérvio Ribeiro ( spribeiro@iceb.ufop.br )

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais : Dr. Evandro Oliveira ( evandro_gama@uol.com.br )

Universidade Estadual de Campinas : Prof. Thomas Lewinsohn ( thomasl@unicamp.br )

Canada

University of Victoria : Prof. Neville Winchester ( winchest@uvic.ca )

Czech Republic

Czech Academy of Sciences & University of South Bohemia : Prof. Vojtech Novotny ( novotny@entu.cas.cz ) , Dr. Lukas Cizek ( cizek@entu.cas.cz ) & Mr. Milan Janda( janda@entu.cas.cz )

Denmark

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen : Dr. Line Sørensen ( llsorensen@zmuc.ku.dk )

France

Université Blaise Pascal : Dr. Bruno Corbara ( Bruno.Corbara@srvpsy.univbpclermont.fr )

Université Toulouse III : Dr. Jérome Orivel ( orivel@aurore.cict.fr )

CIRAD : Mr. Henri-Pierre Aberlenc ( henri-pierre.aberlenc@cirad.fr )

Herbarium, Université de Montpellier II : Dr. Dawn Frame ( aurora@isem.univ-montp2.fr ) & Prof. Francis Hallé

France / French Guiana

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : Prof. Alain Dejean ( dejean@cict.fr )

Germany

University of Erlangen : Prof. Jürgen Schmidl ( jschmidl@bioform.de ) & Mr. Johannes Bail ( johannes_bail@hotmail.com )

Universität Würzburg : Dr. Andreas Floren ( floren@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de )

Great Britain

Zoological Society of London: Dr. Jonathan Bridle( jon.bridle@ioz.ac.uk )

University of Aberdeen : Dr. Olivier Missa ( o.missa@abdn.ac.uk )

The Natural History Museum : Dr. Neil Springate ( nds@nhm.ac.uk )

Imperial College : Ms. Sara Pinzón ( sara_vpn@yahoo.com.mx )

University of Oxford : Prof. Owen Lewis ( owen.lewis@zoology.ox.ac.uk )

Roehampton University : Prof. Claire Ozanne ( c.ozanne@roehampton.ac.uk )

Finland

University of Helsinki : Prof. Ilka Hanski for Dr. Tomas Roslin ( tomas.roslin@helsinki.fi )

Italy

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola : Dr. Gianfranco Curletti ( musnat@comune.carmagnola.to.it )

Mexico

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Dr. Gabriela Castaño-Meneses ( gcm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx )

New Zealand

University of Canterbury & Crop & Food Research : Prof. Raphael Didham ( raphael.didham@canterbury.ac.nz ), Dr. Laura Fagan ( FaganL@crop.cri.nz)

Norway

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research : Dr. Frode Ødegaard ( frode.odegaard@nina.no )

Panama

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Dr. Yves Basset ( BASSETY@si.edu )
University of Panama : Prof. Héctor Barrios ( hbarrios@ancon.up.ac.pa )

Switzerland

Universität Basel : Dr. Daniel Burckhardt ( Daniel.Burckhardt@unibas.ch )

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel : Dr. Philippe Cuénoud ( philippecuenoud@bluewin.ch )

USA

Louisiana State University : Dr. Alexey Tishechkin ( atishe1@lsu.edu )

National Museum of Natural History : Dr. Scott E. Miller( millers@si.edu )

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) : Dr. David Roubik ( roubikd@si.edu ), Dr. Yves Basset ( bassety@si.edu )

University of Minnesota, Herbarium, Bell Museum of Natural History : Prof. George Weiblen ( gweiblen@umn.edu )

France

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Herbarium : Prof. Jean-Noël Labat ; Dr Jean-Louis Guillaumet

IRD, Nouvelle-Calédonie, botany : Dr Jérôme Munzinger

Germany

Universität Koblenz-Landau : Dr Thomas Wagner

Great Britain

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : Dr Vincent Savolainen

Netherlands

Herbarium Vadense, Wageningen: Prof. Frans Breteler

ALARM

Assessing Large Scale Environmental Risks for Biodiversity with Tested Methods (EU FP6) : Josef Settele, Co-ordinator.

BIOCASE

Biological Collection Access Service for Europe : Walter Berendsohn, Director

CBD GTI

The Convention on Biological Diversity : Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary and Ryan Hill, Programme Officer.

CBOL

Consortium for the Barcode of Life : Dr. Scott E. Miller, chair of the effective committee

CETAF

Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities : Marian Ramos, Chair.

ECOPORT

C.A.J. Putter, Chief Executive Officer

GBIF

Global Biodiversity Information facility: Jim Edwards

GCP

Global Canopy Programme (GCP) : Andrew Mitchell, Director

ENBI

European Network for Biodiversity Information :Wouter Los, Coordinator.

EDIT

European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy :Simon Tillier, Project leader.

FAUNA EUROPEA

Yde de Jong, Manager.

ICAN

International Canopy Network : Nalini Nadkarni, Director

PNI

Pro-Natura International : Olivier Pascal

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization : Dr. Natarajan Ishwaran, Director, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences (SC/EES)

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme : Margaret Oduk

ACG

Caterpillars of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste: Prof. Daniel H. Janzen

ALAS

Arthropods of La Selva : Dr Jack Longino

Discover Life

Dr. John Pickering

NGBRC

New Guinea Binatang Research Center : Dr. Vojtech Novotny

NYBG

New York Botanical Garden : Dr Scott Mori