Editors-in-Chief
Jennifer Guevara
Affiliation: Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Evolutionary Ecology, Evolution of Animal Sociality, Community Ecology, Macroecology, Social Spiders
Email: jennifer.guevara@ikiam.edu.ec
Laura Salazar
Affiliation: Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Plant Ecology, Fern Ecology, Elevational gradients
Email: laura.salazar@ikiam.edu.ec
Managing Editor
Marcelo Vilcacundo Chamorro
Affiliation: Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador
Areas of expertise:Agrobiology, Climate Change, Proteomics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources
Email: edgar.vilcacundo@ikiam.edu.ec
Associate Editors 2025:
Leticia Avilés
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada
Areas of expertise:Group living, Social behaviour, Population and community ecology, Inbreeding, Sex ratios
Elisa Bonaccorso
Affiliation: Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Biogeography, Phylogenetics, Bird systematics
Federico Brown
Affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Areas of expertise: Evolutionary developmental biology
Daisy Cárate Tandalla
Affiliation: iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Germany
Areas of expertise: Tropical Plant Ecology and Biodiversity, Dynamic of Forests regeneration under climate change scenarios, Highland’s diversity in Andean ecosystems
Rachel Collin
Affiliation: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Areas of expertise: Marine invertebrates, Gastropod systematics, Life histories
David A. Donoso
Affiliation: Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Ecology, Tropical ecology, Biodiversity theory, Ecological Interactions, Formicidae, Global change
Monica Guerra
Affiliation: Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Herpetology, Animal behaviour, Sexual selection, Bioacoustics
Lou Jost
Affiliation: EcoMinga, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Biodiversity measures, Population genetics, Plant taxonomy, Conservation biology
John Kelly
Affiliation: University of Kansas, USA
Areas of expertise: Evolutionary quantitative genetics, Population biology
G. Mathias Kondolf
Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley, USA
Areas of expertise: Geomorphology/hydrology interactions with the biota and/or river restoration
Luis Daniel Llambi
Affiliation: Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
Areas of expertise: Plant community ecology, Community dynamics, Plant-plant interactions, Alpine ecology
Glauco Machado
Affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Areas of expertise: Behavioural ecology, Sexual selection, Parental care, Defense mechanisms
Lisa L. Manne
Affiliation: City University of New York / College of Staten Island
Areas of expertise: Biogeography, Population ecology, Conservation biology, Macroecology
Nora Oleas
Affiliation: Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Populations biology, Genetics, Plant ecology, Endangered species
Natalia Pabón-Mora
Affiliation: Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Areas of expertise: Plant morpho-anatomy, Flower and fruit development, Floral symmetry, Parasitic plants, Gene duplication, Gene functional evolution
Town Peterson
Affiliation: University of Kansas, USA
Areas of expertise: Biogeography, Ecological modelling, Bird systematics
Jessica Purcell
Affiliation: University of California – Riverside, USA
Areas of expertise: Ecology and evolution of sociality, Population genomics, Biogeography, Animal behavior
Alonso Ramirez
Affiliation: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Areas of expertise: Rivers, Urban Streams, Macroinvertebrates (Odonata), Functional Ecology of Rivers, Food Webs
Blanca Ríos-Touma
Affiliation: Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Aquatic ecology, Invertebrate ecology, River restoration, Trichoptera
Ibon Tobes
Affiliation: Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: River ecology, Ichthyology, Environmental quality
Yntze van der Hoek
Affiliation: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, Musanze, Rwanda
Areas of expertise: Spatial ecology, Landscape Ecology, Biogeography, Conservation Biology
Veerle Vanacker
Affiliation: Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Areas of expertise: Human-landscape interactions, Integrated catchment management, Soil and sediment fluxes, Integrated watershed management
Patricia E. Salerno
Affiliation: Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Biodiversity and Conservation Genomics, Genomics of Non-Model Organisms, Evolutionary Ecology, Phylogenetics, Neotropical Amphibian and Reptile Systematics, Biogeography of Insular Populations
Leanne Grieves
Affiliation: Cornell University, NY, USA
Areas of expertise: Ornithology, Behavioural Ecology, Chemical Ecology, Chemical Communication, Reproductive Ecology, Disease Ecology
James B. Barnett
Affiliation: McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Areas of expertise: Amphibian, Aposematism, Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Camouflage, Defense coloration, Frog (Anuran), Predation, Visual Ecology
Melissa Alexandre Santos
Affiliation: Universidade Estadual Paulista em Dracena, Ecuador
Areas of expertise: Soil Science, Agronomy, Fertilization, Irrigation, Crop Science
William Galvis
Affiliation: Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal, CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Areas of expertise: Spiders, Taxonomy, Jumping Spiders, Neotropics, Biodiversity
