Frédéric Médail is full Professor of plant ecology and biogeography at the Aix-Marseille University (IMBE, Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology, UMR AMU/CNRS/IRD/UAPV). His broad research interests include the biogeography and conservation of plants around the Mediterranean Basin, based upon phylogeography, conservation genetics and community ecology. He has published more than 220 scientific papers…
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He is currently post-doc fellow at Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Production, Landscape, Agroenergy of the University of Milan. His research is focused on the conservation of plant diversity subjected to direct (i.e.: habitat destruction) and indirect (i.e.: climate change) anthropic pressure. He studies biology and ecology of rare and threatened species applied…
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JOHN THOMPSON is a research director with the CNRS at the “Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive” in Montpellier where he works on the ecology, adaptation and conservation of Mediterranean plant diversity. In 2005 he published the book “Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean” with Oxford University Press (http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-851534-0). His current research is on two main themes…
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Professor Vernon Heywood is Emeritus Professor in the University of Reading, Honorary Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and Honorary Professor in Nanjing (China) and Mendoza (Argentina). A specialist in plant taxonomy and systematics, he has also worked on biodiversity and conservation issues in many parts of the world, particularly in the Mediterranean and has served…
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Costas A. Thanos was born, raised and educated in Athens. He holds a BSc (1974) and a PhD (1980) from the Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has been working for more than 35 years, currently as professor of Plant Physiology. He has served as Chair of the Faculty and…
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Prof. Kharrat is a Plant Geneticist with special interests in endemic species conservation and in conifer genetics. She employs genomic tools to investigate tree populations and flowering plants in order to understand their phylogeny, phylogeography and their historical evolutionary processes. The results of her research have allowed her to define conservation policies and forest ecosystem restoration strategies that are optimizing…
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Emilio Laguna (Valencia, Spain, 1961) is Biologist PhD, working since 1986 as senior officer for plant conservation in the Wildlife Service of Generalitat Valenciana (Autonomous Govern of the Valencian Community). It was the pioneer proposing in and developing the protection of rare, endangered and endemic wild plants through networks of plant micro-reserves (PMRs), a model…
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Bertrand de Montmollin, Doctor in Biology, is Chair of the Mediterranean Plants Specialist Group (IUCN / SSC). He is involved in many Mediterranean flora conservation projects, especially the IPAMed project (Conserving wild plants and habitats for people in the South and East Mediterranean) and CAREMEDIFLORA (Conservation Actions for Rare and Endangered Island Mediterranean Flora). He is a…
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