PhD on tropical ecology and conservation, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

With experience in designing actions and tools for the conservation of Biodiversity in the tropics. Engaged in promoting cooperation between different national and international actors for the creation and development of scientific networks and their articulation with government entities in order to improve conservation-related baselines and decision-making.

Adriane Esquivel Muelbert investigates how forests respond to different global change forces and what the implications of these responses are on biodiversity and global biogeochemical cycles. Her work demonstrates the importance of drought tolerance in shaping diversity and composition across Neotropical tree communities and provides evidence that Amazonian forests are changing as a result of the increase in water stress and atmospheric CO2. More recently, she has focused on tree mortality and how tree death varies across large geographical scales.He has a PhD in Ecology at UFRJ, conducted partially at the University of Queensland and at the Australian National University. He has experience in landscape restoration and ecology, systematic spatial planning and capacity building. His aim is to inform, design and support environmental decision making by providing capacity exchange programs in systematic spatial planning and developing spatial optimisation planning tools for forest and landscape restoration.

I received my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 on the introduction of Sika deer to Scotland. I went to Gabon in 1993 as a postdoctoral researcher and became Director of the Station d’Etudes des Gorilles et Chimpanzés (SEGC) in Lopé National Park, in 2000, a post I held until 2007. I spent several years studying ape ecology before pioneering research into the ecology of mandrills and supervising several PhDs on large mammal ecology and conservation. I then went on to establish many of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s activities in Lopé including the CEDAMM training centre, a community outreach project, an Eco-museum and a mandrill tourism project. I have influenced environmental policy through several high-profile projects, including The National Strategy for Bushmeat Management in Gabon. I am also a successful botanical artist and my work is widely published. I am now a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and an Associate Researcher for the National Centre for Research in Science and Technology in Gabon (CENAREST). My article, 'Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century' has been selected by F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field:

Christian Amani holds a PhD degree in Tropical forest ecology (Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium). After his PhD program he worked as a Scientist for the Center for international forestry research. He currently teaches Plant ecology and other related courses at the Biology Department, Université Officielle de Bukavu (D.R. Congo). He has a good knowledge of forest ecosystems in his home country, thanks to many years of data collection, both in the lowland forests (Central Congo Basin) and the mountain forests (Albertine Rift). Dr Amani also took part in other data collection campaigns in Africa: Usambara Mountains (Tanzania) and Lake Victoria basin. He is a member of the East African Plant Red List Authority (IUCN). He is a founding member of the Regional Network of Conservation Educators in the Albertine Rift (RNCEAR). Apart from his academic teachings, Dr Amani devotes a great deal of his time into understanding and mastering analytical tools; hence his interest in R and its various packages for biological and ecological data analyses. He is also involved in conservation activities, with a particular emphasis on habitat protection and restoration, as well as on vulnerable/threatened species and those with declining populations.