Editorial Board

With this issue, we welcome a new Editorial Board to serve our readers. Representing a wide variety of disciplines within the restoration ecology world, Board members will contribute their skills to editorial judgements and to identifying interesting projects that we may feature in future issues. We thank them for their contributions to this journal and improvements to our environment.

Steven I. Apfelbaum

Steve Apfelbaum is a senior ecologist with Applied Ecological Services who has worked throughout the world on thousands of innovative ecological research and restoration projects for more than 35 years. Steve has contributed to many peer reviewed articles and technical studies. His contributions to books include Soil Carbon Management: Environmental, Economic and Societal Benefits (CRC press, 2007); the award winning Nature’s Second Chance (Beacon Press, 2010), and the Island Press series, Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land (2010) which provides a process and the tools for restoring aquatic, wetland, riverine and terrestrial ecological systems, including disturbed lands. Website: www.appliedeco.com.

James Aronson

James Aronson, PhD is a restoration ecologist at the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology Lab of the CNRS, in Montpellier, France and the Missouri Botanical Garden, a Representative-at-Large of the Society for Ecological Restoration (www.ser.org) and co-founder of the Restoring Natural Capital Alliance (www.rncalliance.org). He is editor-in-chief of the SER-Island Press book series, The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration, and has authored, co-authored or published many books and articles on ecological restoration and related subjects. He participates and consults on restoration projects, programs and networks in desert and dryland, Mediterranean climate regions, tropical forest biomes, and other regions. Website: www.cefe.cnrs.fr/en/dynamique-des-systemes-socio-ecologiques/james-aronson.

Peter Bowler

Peter Bowler, PhD is the Director of the University of California Natural Reserve System’s San Joaquin Marsh and Burns Pinyon Ridge Reserves, Director of the UCI Arboretum and Herbarium, Director of the UCI Minor in Global Sustainability, and is a faculty member in UCI’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His research interests include restoration ecology, conservation biology, and freshwater biology. He has conducted wetland and upland restoration at the San Joaquin Marsh for over twenty years, and he teaches classes in Restoration Ecology, Field Freshwater Ecology, Mediterranean Ecosystems, Limnology and Freshwater Biology, Horticulture, Environmental Ethics, and Sustainable Landscaping at UCI. Website: www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2119.

Lindsay Campbell

Lindsay K. Campbell, PhD is a research social scientist with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, based at the New York City Urban Field Station (www.nrs.fs.fed.us/nyc). Her current research explores the dynamics of urban politics, environmental governance, natural resource stewardship, and sustainability policymaking. She is co-lead of the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP), which maps the social networks and spatial turf of civic, government, and private actors engaged in environmental stewardship in cities. Dr. Campbell holds a BA in Public Policy from Princeton University, a Masters in City Planning from MIT, and a PhD in Geography from Rutgers University. Website: www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/lindsaycampbell.

Robin L. Chazdon

Robin L. Chazdon, PhD is a leading authority on tropical forest regeneration and the conservation of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. She is a professor at the University of Connecticut, where her research has produced over 120 peer-reviewed scientific articles and three books. She currently leads a multi-investigator effort to understand the long-term dynamics of regenerating forests in the Neotropics. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of Biotropica and President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC). She is currently the ATBC’s Executive Director. Dr. Chazdon is the principal investigator for the PARTNERS Research Coordination Network (People And Reforestation in the Tropics: A Network for Education, Research, and Synthesis). Website: www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/chazdon/.

Francisco A. Comín Sebastián

Francisco A. Comín Sebastián, PhD is a Research Professor at Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Spain. Formerly (1983–2002) Professor of Ecology and Limnology at University of Barcelona (Spain) and Invited Professor (1997–2005) at CINVESTAV-IPN (Mérida, Yucat...