The Species-Area Relationship: Theory and Application (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Thomas J. Matthews is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, a Research Member of the Azorean Biodiversity Group, Portugal, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. He is a leading researcher in the fields of macroecology and biogeography, and much of his research involves the species-area relationship in some form. He is also the lead-author of a key SAR software resource, and an Associate Editor of Frontiers of Biogeography.

Kostas A. Triantis is an Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Biogeography and, since 2015, has been Director-at-Large of the International Biogeography Society. He is a biogeographer with broad interests in island biogeography, macroecology, and conservation biology and has a long-term fascination with the species–area relationship.

Robert J. Whittaker is an expert in island biogeography and conservation biogeography. He has been Professor of Biogeography at the University of Oxford since 2004, and a part-time Professor at University of Copenhagen, in the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, since 2015. He has published over 150 articles, and three previous books. He is editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of the International Biogeography Society.