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Environmental Science/Climate Change & Mitigation Biodiversity Hotspots of the World
Biodiversity hotspots harbor extraordinary concentrations of endemic species while facing severe habitat loss and degradation, making their documentation and conservation an urgent global priority. This new volume, Biodiversity of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Hotspot, part of the Biodiversity Hotspots of the World book series, which provides overviews of biodiversity across the world’s biodiversity hotspots, examines one of the most biologically important and threatened regions of the New World. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editors: T. Pullaiah, PhD Former Professor, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Andhra Pradesh, India T. Pullaiah, PhD, is a former professor in the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Andhra Pradesh, India, where he taught for more than 35 years. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Head of the Department of Botany, Head of the Department of Biotechnology, and a member of the Academic Senate. He was President of the Indian Botanical Society and the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and is a fellow of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. He was selected by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the Emeritus Professorship across multiple tenures (including 2012–2015 and 2017–2019), as well as serving as a UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow following his formal retirement from active service in 2011. His other honors include the Panchanan Maheshwari Gold Medal, Prof. P. C. Trivedi Medal, Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial Lecture Award, Prof. Y. D. Tyagi Gold Medal, and Best Teacher Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He has guided over 50 doctoral students, authored over 75 books, edited over 55 books, and published more than 340 research papers. His books include Ethnobotany of India, Global Biodiversity, Apomixis in Angiosperms, Invasive Alien Species, Flora of Andhra Pradesh, Flora of Eastern Ghats, and Encyclopaedia of World Medicinal Plants. He was also a member of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Professor Pullaiah received his PhD from Andhra University, India, attended Moscow State University, Russia, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow from 1976 to 1978. Pablo Lozano, PhD Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador Pablo Lozano, PhD, is a full-time Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Universidad Estatal Amazónica (UEA), Puyo, Ecuador, where he has served since 2011. His research focuses on plant ecology, botany, taxonomy, and the conservation of Andean-Amazonian and tropical dry-forest ecosystems. He has published 39 peer-reviewed articles and 21 book chapters. His administrative and professional positions have included Director of the UEA Postgraduate Center, National Forestry Director at Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment, and President of the Ecuadorian Foundation for Botanical Research (Funbotanica). He also served on the research commission for institutional strengthening of IKIAM Amazon Regional University. Professor Lozano has received support and recognition from DANIDA-ENRECA, the New York Botanical Garden through the Rupert Barneby Award, and the German Research Foundation (DFG). He was selected for a postdoctoral research stay at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Germany, for 2026–2028. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor rerum naturalium) in Plant Ecology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany; a master’s degree in Biological Sciences from Aarhus University, Denmark; and a degree in Forest Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador. Diego G. Tirira, PhD Research Professor, Universidad Yachay Tech, Urcuquí, Imbabura, Ecuador; Research Associate, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Ecuador; Research Associate, Museo de Zoología (QCAZ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito Diego G. Tirira, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Universidad Yachay Tech, Urcuquí, Imbabura, Ecuador, and has studied mammals and worked for their conservation since 1990. His research interests encompass mammalogy, bat ecology, primate conservation, wildlife trafficking, and biodiversity conservation. He is a research associate at the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO) and the Museo de Zoología (QCAZ) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). Professor Tirira founded the Ecuadorian Association of Mammalogists and served as its first president from 2010 to 2016; he has also founded several specialist groups devoted to mammals in Ecuador. An invited speaker at universities and congresses around the world, he has published more than 15 books on mammalogy, more than 80 scientific papers, and a similar number of popular science articles. He studied at PUCE, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, and Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, conducting thesis research on the ecology of fish-eating bats, Antarctic seals, wildlife trafficking, and primate conservation. |
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