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Dr Karen Diele is a Reader in Marine Sciences at and the (MASTS). Karen鈥檚 research topics include the dynamics, conservation and management of coastal ecosystems, in particular mangrove forests, and their associated fauna.听She has been conducting primary research on the biology, ecology and diversity of marine invertebrates and their responses to environmental pressures.

At the in Vietnam, Karen and colleagues studied the effects of typhoon and lightning disturbance on planted monospecific mangrove forests and their associated macrobenthic fauna.

In Brazil she has led several projects focussing on the biology and functional role of a mangrove crab harvested by fishermen and learned how community-based marine protected area management is taking place.

James Aronson is a restoration ecologist at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle and Evolutive (CNRS), in Montpelier, France, and at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he is co-founder of the Restoring Natural Capital Alliance.

While working on the conceptual advancement and mainstreaming of science-based ecological restoration, he also participates in or advises on ecosystem and landscape restoration programs in tropical, Mediterranean-climate and dry-land regions of the world.

He is a representative-at-large of the 聽(SER), and editor-in-chief of the SER-Island Press book series, .听

Professor Richard Hobbs is an ecologist, with experience working in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

He grew up in Scotland and completed a BSc in Ecological Science at the followed by an MA in Biology at the , on a Fulbright Scholarship.

He completed my PhD at the , working on post-fire dynamics of heathland communities, supervised by Professor Charles Gimingham. After completing his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at , working with Professor Hal Mooney on serpentine grassland dynamics.

He joined the Wildlife & Ecology division of Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, in in 1984 and worked on the dynamics of fragmented ecosystems in the Western Australian wheatbelt.

He became Officer in Charge of the Western Australian laboratory in 1997 and in 2000 took up a Chair in Environmental Science at Murdoch University and was awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship in 2006. He joined the in 2009.