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Editorial Board

Note:  Frontiers of Biogeography migrated to a new publisher in 2024, and up to date information about the journal can be found at https://biogeography.pensoft.net/.  The information below dates from 2024.

Editors:

Robert J. Whittaker (Editor-in-Chief)

School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Island biogeography; conservation biogeography; diversity theory, macroecology

Janet Franklin (Deputy Editor)
Center for Open Geospatial Science, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
conservation biogeography; spatial ecology, species distribution modeling, paleodistribution modeling

Associate Editors:

Sérgio Ávila
Departamento de Biologia, CIBIO-Açores & Universidad dos Açores, Portugal
island biogeography; marine biogeography; palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology; island geo-environments

Jan Beck
Department of Environmental Sciences,University of Basel, Switzerland & Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado - Boulder, USA
biodiversity; macroecology; abundance & distribution; assemblages; gradients; modelling; informatics & statistics

Mary Blair
American Museum of Natural History - New York, USA
biodiversity; conservation; evolution; molecular genetics; primates; species distribution modelling

Chris Burridge
School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia
marine; biogeography; population genetics; landscape genetics; molecular phylogenetics

Marcus V. Cianciaruso
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
community ecology; functional ecology; biodiversity; traits; phylogeny; environment; scales

Thomas L.P. Couvreur
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador
biogeography; phylogenetics; molecular dating; phylogeography; conservation of biodiversity; Africa; tropical rain forests

Roy Erkens
Maastricht Science Programme, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
plant systematics; biogeography; speciation; molecular phylogenetics; Neotropics, IUCN threat assessment

Kenneth J. Feeley
Department of Biology, University of Miami, USA
tropical ecosystems; plant species distributions; diversity patterns; forest dynamics; species range shifts

Richard Field
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK
macroecology; ecological biogeography; island biogeography; trait/functional biogeography

Susanne Fritz
Macroevolution of Birds and Mammals, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Germany
evolutionary biogeography; macroevolution; macroecology; diversity patterns; niche evolution

Dan Gavin
Department of Geography, University of Oregon, USA
paleoecology (vegetation & ecosystems); Pleistocene refugia; western North America; Southeast Asia

Lawrence R. Heaney
Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, USA
island biogeography; deep-time biogeography; dynamics of diversification; phylogeography; elevational gradients; speciation processes;

Matthew J. Heard
Department of Biology, Belmont University, USA
extinction; plants; animals; species invasions; infectious disease; climate change; evolution; science policy & communication

Joaquín Hortal
Department of Biogeography and Global Change, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Spain

macroecology; community ecology; island biogeography; insect ecology; biodiversity

Xiaolei Huang
Biological Control Research Institute, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, P.R. China
biodiversity patterns; ecology; evolution; phylogenetics; genomics; bioinformatics

David G. Jenkins
Biology Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
metacommunity ecology; macroecology; dispersal; diversity; distributions; local-regional; wetlands

Praveen Karanth
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India
historical biogeography; phylogeography; molecular phylogenetics; species delimitation using molecular tools; character evolution; conservation genetics

Frank A. La Sorte
Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA
macroecology; biogeography; global change; conservation; birds

Richard Ladle
CIBIO Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Portugal
human-nature interactions; conservation biogeography; islands

Jonathan Lenoir
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute Écologie et Environment, France
climate change; macroecology, species redistribution

Mark V. Lomolino
Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA
biogeography; ecology; evolution; conservation; islands; mountains

Kangshan Mao
College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, P.R. China
Historical biogeography; molecular dating; species delimitation; phylogeography; conservation genetics; high-throughput sequencing

Thomas J. Matthews
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Macroecology; island biogeography; conservation biogeography; global change ecology

Nagore G. Medina
Biology Departament, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Bryophytes; diversity; mediterranean; functional morphology

Carsten Meyer
Macroecology and Society Research Group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany
biodiversity data; land use; conservation biogeography; macroecological patterns and drivers; human macroecology; species distributions

Leticia M. Ochoa Ochoa
Departamento Biología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Diversity patterns; amphibian species distributions; macroecology; trait/functional biogeography; conservation biogeography

Kenneth Rijsdijk
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
island biogeography; landscape ecology; conservation science; geology; quaternary geology; landscape dynamics

Núria Roura-Pascual
Department de Ciéncies Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, Spain
conservation; biogeography; ecology; governance; public understanding of science

Lauren Schiebelhut
University of California, Davis, USA
marine; population genetics; genomics; dispersal; echinoderms

Spyros Sfenthourakis
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
island biogeography; terrestrial invertebrates; Mediterranean; phylogeography

Tara M. Smiley
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stoney Brook University, USA
paleoecology; biogeography; paleobiology; landscape dynamics; stable isotopes; mammals

Cascade Sorte
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA
climate change; invasive species; marine ecology

Christophe Thébaud
Center for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University of Toulouse, France
community assembly; evolutionary dynamics; speciation; molecular systematics; population genetics

Peter Unmack
Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Australia
freshwater; phylogeography; phylogeny; historical biogeography

Ole Reider Vetaas
Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway
elevational gradients; diversity theory; plants; Himalayas; macroecology

Marten Winter
sDiv - Synthesis Center, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany
macroecology; mammals; conservation; wildlife ecology; invasions; policy

Alexandra Zieritz
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK, Malaysia
freshwater; invertebrates; conservation biogeography; phylogeography; molecular ecology

Editorial College:

The college of biogeographers provides an additional group of subject specialists who serve as an extended editorial board, who may advise the editor-in-chief and each of whom may handle a small number of manuscripts a year. It is open to authors to request that a paper be assigned to a member of the college.

Lois Alexander (Merkler)
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Southern Nevada, USA

Paul Barber
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Gerardo Ceballos
Department of Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, México

Robert Colwell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, USA

José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho
Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil

Rosemary Gillespie
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Catherine Graham
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland

Walter Jetz
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, USA

David Nogués-Bravo
Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Pedro Peres-Neto
Department of Biology, Concordia University, Canada

Carsten Rahbek
Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

David M. Richardson
Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Brett Riddle
School of Life Sciences, University of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Cynthia Riginos
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

George Roderick
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Kaustuv Roy
Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, USA

Dov Sax
Institute for Environment and Society, Brown University, USA

Felisa Smith
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, USA

George Stevens
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Jens-Christian Svenning
Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Kostas Triantis
Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Taxonomy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Ella Vázquez-Domínguez
Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México

John W. (Jack) Williams
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, USA

Kathy Willis
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK

Advisory Board:

Carsten Rahbek
Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark

David M. Richardson
Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ex Officio: International Biogeography Society Board Members:

Sandra Nogué
Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK

Editorial Office Manager :

Karen Faller
Frontiers of Biogeography, USA