International collaboration:
ECONOVO has nine committed international associates (IAs), who will act as advisory board, collaborate on research, and take part in bidirectional exchanges of senior staff and early-career researchers (supported by the center):
- Assistant prof. Stefani Crabtree, Utah State University & Santa Fe Institute, adds expertise on past food webs
- Prof. John W. Williams, University of Wisconsin, President of American Quaternary Association, adds expertise on paleo- and climate change ecology
- Prof. Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, adds expertise on human biosphere transformation
- Prof. Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona, adds expertise on ecology theory and plant macroecology
- Associate prof. Michelle Greve, University of Pretoria, South Africa, adds expertise on South African vegetation ecology
- Prof. Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford, President-Elect of British Ecological Society, adds expertise on global ecosystem ecology
- Prof. David Coltman, Western University, Canada, adds expertise on megafauna population genomics
- Prof. Sandra Díaz, CONICET and National University of Córdoba, Argentina, adds expertise on global biodiversity policy
- Associate prof. Anastasiia Zymaroieva, Head of the Ecology Department in Polissia National University, senior researcher at The Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, Ukraine. Adds expertise on biodiversity in agrolandscapes