Mexico
Leonel is professor at Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo since 2013. Leo is biologist from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and completed his Master and PhD studies in Plant Ecology at University of Aberdeen, UK. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Conservation Research-San Diego Zoo in the US. Leo teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on Plant Ecology, Population Ecology and Statistics. He has published 36 scientific articles and supervised 10 and 15 undergraduate and graduate students, respectively.
Leo´s main study site is the tropical dry forest of Alamos, in Sonora, the northernmost TDF in the Americas, where he and Dr. Steve Hubbell established a 50 ha plot. His research interests are broad including plant demography and dynamics, origin and maintenance of diversity of tropical dry forests and climate change effects on plant diversity.
Email: llopezt@umich.mx, leonellopeztoledo@gmail.com
Webpage: https://www.inirena.umich.mx/?page_id=756
https://www.plantecologylab.com
Cristina Martínez Garza
Cristina is Professor at Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación (CIByC) de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. She graduated as Biologist from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and completed her Master and PhD studies at University of Illinois, Chicago, in the US under the supervision of Dr. Henry F. Howe.
Currently, she works at Centre for Research in Biodiversity and Conservation (CIByC), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Cristina does research in Evolutionary Biology, Restoration Ecology and Botany. Their current projects are related to the restoration ecology of the dry and humid forest of Mexico and the National Evaluation of Restoration Projects in Mexico to create the National Program of Restoration. Cristina has published more than 80 scientific studies and she has supervised 16 and 18 undergraduate and graduate students. Cristina´s work has received more than 2000 citations. She is Subject Editor of journal Tropical Ecology.
Email: cristina.martinez@uaem.mx
Webpage: http://www.mbibyc.mx/index.php/tutores/14-contenido/83-dra-martinez
Moisés Méndez-Toribio
Dr. Moisés Méndez graduated from Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and completed his Master's and PhD studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas. He was postdoctoral associate at ENES-UNAM, Universidad Autónoma de Morelia y Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Moisés is currently Catedrático-CONACYT assigned to Centro Regional del Bajío-Instituto de Ecología, A.C. He has published 26 articles and directed undergraduate and graduate students. He has conductedfloristic and tree community studies of the tropical dry forest in Tierra Caliente in Michoacán
and Chamela, Jalisco. His research interests also cover aspects related to ecological restoration and social perception for restoration projects.
Email: mendeztm@gmail.com, moises.mendez@inecol.mx
Web page: http://www.inecol.mx/personal/index.php/diversidad-biologica-del-occidente-mexicano/206-moises-mendez-toribio
Previously, Dr Alfoso Delgado Salinas, researcher of the Instituto de Biologia of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was the lead Network Partner. He is a specialist in the taxonomy of the legume family (Leguminosae or Fabaceae), a dominant element of Mexican dry forest. He therefore has a long-term interest in the diversity and biogeography of legumes and dry forest vegetation. Since, there is a longer history of exploration and inventory of Mexican dry forests than in many other Latin American countries, Dr Delgado Salinas assisted in identifying key publications, and coordinate information gathering (species lists) for the DRYFLOR network.