MDPI’s Journal Cluster of Ecosystem and Resource Management Webinar | Frontiers of Conservation Research in Our Rapidly Changing Environment

Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece;
Prof. Ioannis Theodorou is a graduate of the Department of Biology at the University of Patras with a specialization in Fisheries & Shellfish Farming (Bangor University, Wales, UK), Quality Management of Fishery Products & Marketing (University of Hull, UK) and has a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences (Ghent University, Belgium). He has over 25 years of professional experience in Mediterranean Aquaculture, during which he has implemented more than 30 industrial, educational, and research projects in this field. As an expert, he has served as a consultant to national (SETH, Ministry of Environment & Climate Change) and international agencies & organizations (FAO-GFCM) in Europe (EU, AquaTT) and the USA (NOAA). He has published 78 papers and 13 chapters in collective volumes and supervised the completion of 1 PhD thesis and 10 master’s theses. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-5779 Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y2CYJNIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603499253 Web of Science Researcher: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2072990

CE3C—Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group, CHANGE—Global Change and Sustainability Institute, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of the Azores, Azores, Portugal, IUCN SSC Atlantic Islands Invertebrate Specialist Group, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal, IUCN SSC Monitoring Specialist Group, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal;
I received a Ph.D. in Insect Ecology from the University of London (Imperial College) in 1997 and I am currently leading the Island Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation research group (IBBC). I participated in the development of the Azorean Biodiversity Portal (http://azoresbioportal.uac.pt/), a unique and important web interface for communicating biodiversity research in the Azorean region to the public. I am a professor of Ecology at the University of Azores. My research focuses on arthropod macroecology patterns and processes on island ecosystems. For many years, I have been involved in island research using the Macaronesian islands and in particular the Azores as a model system. I am currently Co-Chair of the IUCN/SSC Atlantic Island Invertebrates Specialist Group and member of the IUCN - Spider and Scorpion Specialist Group and the IUCN/SSC Monitoring Specialist Group. My current research is driven by three overarching objectives: i) collect long-term ecological data to investigate the processes affecting patterns of species diversity, abundance and distribution at different spatial scales; ii) use Macaronesia as a model system to investigate ecological and evolutionary mechanisms responsible for shaping island biotas; iii) identify pathways that impact oceanic indigenous assemblages under global change for conservation purposes.

Department of Urban & Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA;
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty-five books, including Blue Urbanism: Connecting Cities and Oceans (Island Press) and Blue Biophilic Cities: Nature and Resilience Along the Urban Coast (Palgrave-MacMillan). Beatley directs the Biophilic Cities Network at UVA (http://biophiliccities.org/) co-founded UVA’s Center for Design and Health, and is helping to create a new Center for Forest Urbanism.