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| Name | Title | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Bryan Watts | Mitchell A. Byrd Professor of Conservation Biology | College of William and Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Jeremy Lundholm | Professor of Biology and Environmental Science | Saint Mary's University (Halifax) |
| Barbara Zimmerman | Kayapo project Director | International Conservation Fund of Canada |
| Tom Quinn | Professor of Biology | University of Denver |
| Leif Kullman | Professor of physical geography | Umeå University |
| Bruce Beehler | Research Associate | Smithsonian Institution |
| Alexander Chikunov | Mr. | Institute of World Ideas |
| Craig Murray | Hydrologist | Institute for Watershed Science, Trent University |
| Ashley Gaden | Research Associate | University of Manitoba, Centre for Earth Observation Science |
| Qin Yu | Dr. | George Washington University |
| Stephen Spomer | Research Technologist | University of Nebraska Entomology |
| Judith Patterson | Associate Professor of Geology | Concordia University Science College |
| David B Lank | University Research Associate and Adjunct Professor | Simon Fraser University |
| Andreas Beck | Research Scientist and Curator | Botanische Staatssammlung München |
| Christoph Meyer | Research Fellow | University of Lisbon |
| Reed Noss | Provost's Distinguished Research Professor of Biology | University of Florida, Dept. of Biology |
| Kevin Gaston | Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation | University of Exeter |
| Daniel CHERIX | Prof of Ecology | Uinversity of Lausanne |
| Sophia Lavergne | PhD Candidate | University of Toronto Scarborough |
| Jian Zhang | Postdoc | Aarhus University |
| Iain Stenhouse | Adjunct Professor of Biology | University of Southern Maine |
| Randy Lauff | Part-time Professor of Biology | St. Francis Xavier University |
| Colleen Barber | Professor of Biology | Saint Mary's University |
| Yngvar Gauslaa | Professor of Botany | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| Matthew Rubino | Research Associate | North Carolina State University |
| Cort Anastasio | Professor | University of California - Davis |
| Susan Shirley | Research Associate | Oregon State University |
| Roy Turkington | Professor Of Ecology | University of British Columbia, Dept of Botany & Biodiversity Research Centre |
| Richard Holmes | Eneritus Professor of Biology | Dartmouth College |
| Giulio Cuccodoro | Research officer | Musée d'histoire naturelle |
| Tom Dickinson | Dean of Science | Thompson Rivers University, Biological Sciences |
| Mats Lindeskog | Post Doc, Ecosystem Science | Lund University |
| John Rotenberry | Professor of Biology, Emeritus | University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences |
| Urban Olsson | Associate Professor | University of Gothenburg |
| Victor Cueto | Research Senior | National Council for Science and Technical Research |
| Mihkel Kangur | Director, | Institute of Ecology at Tallinn University |
| John RICHARDSON | Professor and Head of Department | University of British Columbia, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences |
| Dolph Schluter | Professor and Canada Research Chair | University of British Columbia Zoology Department and Biodiversity Research Centre |
| Dominique Berteaux | Professor | Université du Québec à Rimouski |
| Andrew Iwaniuk | Associate Professor | University of Lethbridge |
| Eric Dinerstein | Director | Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions, RESOLVE |
| Gordon Hartman | Fisheries Research Scientist 3, Retired | Retired |
| John Mull | Professor of Zoology | Weber State University Department of Zoology |
| Richard Tyre | Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| George Wallace | Vice President | American Bird Conservancy |
| Val Smith | Professor of Ecology | University of Kansas Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Kenneth Sanderson | Faculty Professor of Biological Sciences | University of Calgary Dept of Biological Sciences |
| Emily McKinnon | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Windsor |
| François Lutzoni | Associate Professor of Biology | Duke University |
| Christopher Barnes | Professor Emeritus of Earth and Ocean Sciences | University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences |