Conference Organizing Committee

Francisco A. Comin (Chair)*
Profesor de Investigación
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología

Sasha Alexander (Vice-Chair)*
Program Director
Society for Ecological Restoration

Amanda Jorgenson (Treasurer)*
Executive Director
Society for Ecological Restoration

Levi Wickwire (Secretary)*
Project Coordinator
Society for Ecological Restoration

Kingsley Dixon
Science Director
Kings Park and Botanic Garden

Carolina Murcia
Science Director
Organization for Tropical Studies

Bill Halvorson*
Research Ecologist
US Geological Survey

Al Unwin
Professor
Niagara College

Mauricio Balensiefer
Presidente
Sociedade Brasileira de Recuperação de Áreas Degradadas

Steve Whisenant
Professor
Texas A&M University

James Aronson
Research Ecologist
CEFE/CNRS, France

*Executive Committee

Local Organizing Committee

Jorge Herrera CINVESTAV
Arturo Zaldivar CINVESTAV
Javier Ramirez CINVESTAV
Claudia Teutli CINVESTAV
Jose Luis Andrade CICY
Issac Castillo CICY
David Alonzo DUMAC
David Canul DUMAC
Fabiola Lopez INECOL A.C.
Sergio Guevara INECOL A.C.

Scientific Program Committee

Francisco A. Comín (Chair)
Bill Halvorson (Vice-Chair)
Steve Whisenant
Kingsley Dixon
Sasha Alexander
James Aronson

João Ferraz
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brasil

Alejandro Castellanos
University of Sonora. Mexico

Richard Hobbs
The University of Western Australia

Katalin Torok
Hungary Academia of Sciences

Keith Bowers
Biohabitats Inc.

James Griffith
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil

John Tobe
Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc., USA

Karen Keenleyside
Parcs Canada/Parks Canada

Jose Ignacio Barrera
Universidad Javierana, Colombia

Fernando Bustos
Globalchile Consultants, Chile

Andy Clewell
Clewell Consultants, Inc.

Jordi Cortina
University of Alicante, Spain

Edith Buison
University of Avignon, France

Rudy Van Diggelen
University of Antwerp, Belgium