About the Authors

Ronnie Vernooy

rvernooy@idrc.ca

Affiliation Agriculture and Environment Program Area, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ejnavarzala Haribabu

Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Manuel Ruiz Muller

Affiliation International Affairs and Biodiversity Program, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), Lima, Peru

Joseph Henry Vogel

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Paul D. N. Hebert

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

David E. Schindel

Affiliation Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., United States of America

Junko Shimura

Affiliation Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gregory A. C. Singer

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

We are collaborating on the new PLoS Hub for Biodiversity.