Advisory Board and Editors Biodiversity
Brandon P Hedrick
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
An evolutionary biologist, paleobiologist, and ecologist primarily interested in comparative morphology. I work across the vertebrate tree including reptiles, amphibians, and birds, but specialize on bats and dinosaurs.
Steven Heritage
Dr. Steven Heritage is a teaching professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a a clinical & evolutionary anatomist, mammalogist, and phylogenetic biologist mainly working on African mammals. He also serves as a coordinator for the IUCN SSC Afrotheria Specialist Group.
Robert J Hijmans
Robert Hijmans is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, he held positions at the International Potato Center (Peru), the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines) and at the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. His research focuses on spatial data analysis in biodiversity, agriculture, and health, and he has developed widely used software and databases to support such work. He has a PhD in Production Ecology from Wageningen University (Netherlands).
Christian Hof
Junior Research Group Leader at Technical University of Munich, Germany. Before: researcher at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt. PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Diploma (M.Sc.) from Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Member of the German Young Academy; German Representative of the International Biogeography Society.
Xiaolei Huang
Professor of Entomology at the State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. Main research interests of Xiaolei Huang's lab include insect diversity, systematics, biogeography, behavior, species interactions. His lab focuses on different taxonomic groups (e.g. insect-symbiont, insect-plant, insect-insect) to understand ecology and evolution of the diversity of species interactions. He also works actively on some general issues including data sharing and open science in ecology and evolution, and trends of biological taxonomy. During the recent years, the lab has been establishing specimen collection and DNA barcode library of subtropical aphids and scale insects in China, as well as research platform for studying species interactions and insect ecology and evolution across different disciplines from field ecology to genomics.
Dezene PW Huber
In our lab we work on bark beetle functional genomics, understanding tree defenses against herbivores and pathogens, insect chemical ecology, and insect biodiversity.
We conduct our research across multiple scales and we use available tools – established and cutting-edge – to search for answers to complex entomological and ecological questions.
Daniel F Hughes
Dr. Daniel Hughes is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Coe College, where he studies how organisms, species, and entire communities respond to change, both in the past and present. His research begins with natural history observations and then leverages comparative approaches from diverse fields to study ecological and evolutionary processes, mostly in reptiles and amphibians. Dr. Hughes' work stems from the interrelated aims of tracking the impacts of global changes and improving the conservation of species.
Izwandy Idris
Dr. Izwandy Idris is Head of the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC) within the Institute of Oceanography and Environment at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.
His research interests include the systematics (taxonomy), biology, and ecology of marine invertebrates, with in-depth works on the marine worm (Annelida: Polychaeta). Dr. Idris' research group works on several aspects including small-scale biogeography in coastal and estuary, biofouling ecology, biology, and ecology of commercially related species for sustainable application. His group also has started taking an interest in deep-sea polychaetes.
The overarching objectives of Dr. Idris' research group is to systematically catalogue the marine invertebrate diversity in Malaysia and to apply the knowledge on the ecological and biological requirements of the species for the betterment of people through economic empowerment, health, and the environment in a sustainable manner.
Rodolfo Jaffé
I`m interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, comprising population and community ecology, genomics and spatial statistics, to understand how the alteration of natural habitats influences biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services.
Michael A Jenkins
I am a Professor of Forest Ecology in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. Previously, I was a vegetation ecologist with the National Park Service for ten years. My research focuses on the effects of disturbance and invasive species on forests ecosystems. My scale of focus ranges from the population to the landscape scale and I work with data from both long-term plot networks and field experiments.
Michela M Johnson
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the State Natural History Museum in Stuttgart. I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. My work focuses on teleosauroids, a group of semi-marine Jurassic crocodylomorphs, and aspects of their morphology, phylogenetics, taxonomy and ecology. For my postdoc I am studying their ontogeny and body size distribution during the Early Jurassic.
Jean-Lou Justine
Professor of parasitology at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
A specialist of systematics of monogeneans and certain parasitic nematodes, also interested in parasite biodiversity in coral reef fish, phylogeny of Platyhelminthes and Nematodes, and land planarians. Curator of the collections of parasitic worms of the MNHN.
Former Editor of “Zoosystema” and “Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle”. Currently Editor of “Parasite”, an open-access journal.
See my Publons profile for more information on peer-review activity.