Editorial Committee 2007. Members since 1999. President 2004 and 2005. Graduate student in the Departament of Biology, Saint Louis University, Missouri – United States.

Research interests: Alpine ecology, ecology and conservation of Andean Mountain Forest, particularly Polylepis woodlands.

 

Alejandra Iboya Domic

Member since 2000. Treasurer from 2002 to 2006. Biology Department, Universidad Mayor de San Andres. Currently she is working on her undergraduate thesis in environmental management in the city of La Paz .

Research interests: Quality of urban air and Environmental Education

 

Angélica María De La Rocha

Member since 2002. Vicepresident 2006. Associate researcher of the National Herbarium of Bolivia. She has participated in projects about flora and phenology in the humid mountain forest, Estación Biológica Tunquini, La Paz. Bolivia.

Research interests: Ecology, conservation biology, and environmental education

 

Arely Neisa Palabral

Editorial Committee 2007. Member since 2002. Research associate of the National Herbarium of Bolivia.

Research interests: Ecology and taxonomy of bryofites and fungi, and conservation biology.

 

Claudia Eliana Aldana

Current President. Member since 2004. Project Assistant “Conservation in situ of wild relatives of cultivated plants: strengthening management, education, and applications in Bolivia”. She is also doing her thesis, "Uses and knowledge of traditional doctors about medicinal plants in the Valley of Sorata".

Research interests: Environmental management, Plant Ecophysiology, Applied Ethnobotany.

 

Karina Susana Apaza

María Estela Viscarra

President and member since 1999. Coordinator of the Project: "Conservation of the Polylepis pepei forests with local communities". Asociación Civil Armonia.

Research interests: Plant ecology, conservation biology, and environmental education

 

Mary Carolina García

Mercedes Villca

Noemi Ruth Quispe

Conservation Committee. Member since 2002. Assistant researcher of the National Herbarium of Bolivia.

Research interests: Reproductive Biology, Cactaceae, Lasaceae, and animals.

 

Nadia Paola Flores

Web design 2006 and 2007. Member since 2005. Undegraduate student of the Department of Biology, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés.

Research interests: Urban ecology, conservation biology, and environmental education.

 

Pedro Rodrigo Huayllas

Member since 2003. Department of Biology, Universidad Mayor de San Andres.

Research interests: Ecology of dragoflyes (Odonata), ethnobotany, flora of Tucuman – Bolivian Forest, and ecology of bats.

 

Rosember Hurtado

Member since 2002. Secretary 2004 and 2005. Undergraduate student of the Department of Biology - Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. She is doing her thesis on high-andean carnivores. She has been working with ecology of bats and environmental education projects focused on children, teachers, and peasants.

Research interests: Ecology, conservation, and environmental education of carnivores.

 

Vanesa Serrudo

Member since 2005. Department of Biology, Universidad Mayor de San Andres. She has made Studies in Conservation of Phibalura flavirostris,

Research interests: Conservation biology, and environmental education

Verónica del Rosario Avalos

Member since 2007.

Research interests: Beetle ecology, particularly Dynastide; environmental management.

 

Member since 2007.

Isabel Gomez Urquizo

isabel.gomez.u@gmail.com

Member since 2006. Technician in the Centro de Análisis Espacial, Insituto de Ecologia-Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. She helps designing maps, predictive models of species and satellital images. She is also doing her undergraduate thesis in the Department of Biology, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Stuyding the population dinamycs of two Lepidopteran genus in el Chairo, Parque Nacional y Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Cotapata – Bolivia.

Research interests: Global Information Systems applied to ecology and conservation biology.

Wendy Tejeda Pérez

wendy_tejedaperez@yahoo.es