Mark F Baumgartner is Associate Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, mbaumgartner@whoi.edu.

Kathleen M Stafford is Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, USA, kate2@uw.edu.

Dipani Sutaria is an ecologist associated with James Cook University, Australia and a member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, Dipani. Sutaria@gmail.com.

Daniel Hoshizaki is a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, currently conducting research in Cambodia. His research focuses on the social and ecological impacts of hydropower development in the country. He is also working with a locally based environmental NGO, Mother Nature, to advocate for the rights of communities that will be affected by the proposed Chaey Areng hydropower project, daniel.hoshizaki@yale.edu.

Ricardo Finotti is a researcher and Associate professor at Estácio de Sá University. finottiricardo@
gmail.com.

Cecilia Herzog is researcher and lecturer on Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity, president of Inverde Institute, and Asssociate Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ceciliapherzog@gmail.com.

Ryo Kohsaka is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya City University, Japan, kikori36@gmail.com.

Divya Gopal is a researcher at the Institute ofEcology, Technische Universität, Berlin.

Germán Andrés Quimbayo R is an Ecologist at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá)

María Angélica Mejía P is Program Coordinator for Policy, Legislation and Decision Making at the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources, Bogotá, Colombia.

Juana Mariño D is an academic, architect and urban and regional development consultant based in Bogota, Columbia, jmarinod@gmail.com

Russell Galt is Project Coordinator at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, rgalt@btinternet.com

Thomas Elmqvist is a Professor at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden. thomas.elmqvist@su.se.

Harini Nagendra is Professor at School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Maria Tengö is a researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre and co-theme leader of the Stewardship theme, maria.tengo@su.se.

Maria Schewenius is a graduate from Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University and is interested in governance and management of urban social-ecological systems, maria.schewenius@su.se

Rohini Nilekani is the founder of Arghyam, a foundation dedicated to water and sanitization issues. She is also co-founder of Pratham Books. A dedicated philanthropist, Rohini is involved with a number of environmental and developmental organizations such as ATREE. She is also a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and has authored the novel, ‘Stillborn’.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who builds game-theoretic models of animal behaviour.  His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Light, Lighten Up Online and several other journals.

Minakshi Seth is a storyteller and a nature communicator. She volunteers with nature and conservation based non-profits and development institutions. When not reading or writing, she follows the nature trail and dabbles in art.

Mrinalini Godara is an Environmental Studies and Sociology student at FLAME University, Pune, India. mrinalinigodara@gmail.com

Sohail Keegan Pinto is currently a Lecturer at St. Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore. His interests lie primarily in the areas of taxonomy and evolution, although he does take a non-professional interest in animal cognition, as well. sohailkpinto@frontier.hokudai.ac.jp

Brett Clark is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He is the author several articles and books on socioecological processes including The Ecological Rift coauthored with John Bellamy Foster and Richard York, and the Tragedy of the Commodity co-authored with Stefano Longo and Rebecca Clausen.

Stefano B. Longo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. His research examines the relationships between social and ecological systems, and is author of The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans Fisheries and Aquaculture co-authored with Rebecca Clausen and Brett Clark.

Nico Eisenhauer is Full Professor for Experimental Interaction Ecology at Leipzig University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany. They study global change impacts on ‘beasts’ (soil biodiversity) and how this relates to the functioning of ecosystems.