GL
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Luz Boyero
Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, where she leads a research team at the Stream Ecology Laboratory. She created GLoBE in 2006 and has coordinated global studies addressing latitudinal patterns of variation in leaf litter decomposition, detritivore diversity, plant quality, and diversity-decomposition relationships (the 'DecoDiv' study).
Luz's email address: luz.boyero@ehu.eus
Javier Pérez
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stream Ecology Laboratory of the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He joined GLoBE in 2014 and has contributed to the coordination of 'DecoDiv'.
Javier's email address: javier.perezv@ehu.eus
Aydeé Cornejo
Senior Researcher at the Gorgas Commemorative Institute of Health Studies, Panama. She collaborated in toearlier GLoBE projects but has joined the coordination team in 2021.
Aydeé's email address: acornejo@gorgas.gob.pa
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Christopher M. Swan
Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland. A GLoBE partner since its origin, he now leads the LandComp project.
Chris' email address: cmswan@umbc.edu
Naiara López-Rojo
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine (LECA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France. Former PhD student at the University of the Basque Country under the supervision of Luz Boyero, she contributed to the coordination of 'DecoDiv'.
Naiara's email address: naiara.lopez-rojo@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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Alan M. Tonin
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Aquariparia/Limnology Lab, University of Brasilia, Brazil and External Collaborator at the Stream Ecology Laboratory of the University of the Basque Country. He joined GLoBE in 2018 and has contributed to the coordination of 'DecoDiv'.
Alan's email address: tonin.alan@gmail.com
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Richard G. Pearson
Emeritus Professor at the School of Science and Engineering in James Cook University, Australia. He co-created GLoBE with Luz Boyero and now contributes to the design of studies and the discussion and publication of results.
Richard's email address: richard.pearson@jcu.edu.au
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS
GLoBE partners belong to 50+ research teams from 30+ countries located all over the world. Collaborators in past and current projects include the following:
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Argentina: Ricardo J. Albariño, Leonardo M. Buria, Verónica D. Villanueva
Australia: Leon A. Barmuta, Leah Beesley, Andrew J. Boulton, Ian C. Campbell, Judy N. Davies, Aaron M. Davis, Michael M. Douglas, Erica A. García, Daniel C. Gwinn, Richard Marchant, Jen A. Middleton, Lavenia Ratnarajah, Fran Sheldon, Michael Venarsky,
Brazil: Adriano Caliman, Marcos Callisto, Adolfo R. Calor, Emerson S. Dias, Juliana S. França, José F. Gonçalves Jr., Neusa Hamada, Luiz U. Hepp, Edson S. A. Junior, Renato T. Martins, Adriana O. Medeiros, Marcelo Moretti, Renan S. Rezende, Michelle M. dos Santos
Canada: John S. Richardson
Chile: María E. Díaz, Ricardo Figueroa
Colombia: Julián Chará, Ana M. Chará-Serna. María C. Zúñiga
Costa Rica: Catherine M. Pringle, Alonso Ramírez
Ecuador: Andrea C. Encalada, Claudia Serrano
Finland: Kaisa Lehosmaa, Timo Muotka, Romain Sarremejane
France: Eric Chauvet, Sylvain Lamothe
Germany: Monika Degebrodt, Mark O. Gessner
Guatemala: Pavel García
Guinea: Nathalie S. D. Tenkiano
Hong Kong: David Dudgeon, Aggie O. I. Li
India: Sankarappan Anbalagan, Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam
Ireland: Elvira de Eyto, Paul S. Giller
Japan: Daichi Imazawa, Tomoya Iwata, Junjiro N. Negishi, Janine R. Tolod
Kenya: Jude M. Mathooko, Charles M'Erimba, Samuel Kariuki, Frank Masese, Augustine Sitati, Mourine J. Yegon
Malaysia: Tajang Jinggut, Catherine M. Yule
Mexico: Catherine Mathuriau
New Zealand: Russell Death
Norway: André Frainer
Panama: Gabriela García, Julie E. Helson
Poland: Szymon Ciapała, Tadeusz Fleituch
Portugal: Jose Castela, Verónica Ferreira, Manuel A. S. Graça, Andrea Landeira-Dabarca
Puerto Rico: Jesús E. Gómez, Alonso Ramírez
South Africa: Cang Hui
Switzerland: Andreas Bruder, Markus H. Schindler
Spain: Alberto Alonso, Ana Basaguren, Jaime Bosch, J. Jesús Casas, Arturo Elosegi, Silvia Monroy, Jesús Pozo, Juan J. Rubio
Sweden: Francis J. Burdon, Brendan G. McKie
United States: Megan Candem (Maul), Bradley J. Cardinale, Checo Colón-Gaud, Alexander S. Flecker, Sergio Gómez, Robert O. Hall Jr., Kelsey Wilbanks (Laymon), Angela R. Shaffer, Christopher M. Swan, Scott D. Tiegs, Derek C. West
Venezuela: María Leal, José Rincón