Participants
Participation in this meeting was by invitation only. In addition to selected individuals from the existing TEAM network, participants included scientists from outside the existing network, from elsewhere in Latin America, and from Africa, Asia, Europe and the U.S.

Description of the meeting
This meeting was an important scientific milestone for TEAM. One of the outcomes was a special issue of a journal or a peer-reviewed book focused on the scientific requirements and challenges confronting a global biodiversity monitoring network. The publication will contain a series of multi-authored papers that outline the scientific vision for TEAM, including:

• The overall spatial sampling framework


• The biodiversity monitoring protocols, including the methods and the underlying rationale for each protocol


• The analytical framework for using the data generated by each protocol to quantify and forecast changes in biodiversity at regional to global scales, as well as synthesizing what we have learned from the TEAM data gathered to date and the framework for data management and global dissemination.

To ensure we accomplished this objective, this was a working meeting, with a series of parallel working groups. Because participants came from around the world, the official meeting language was English. By the end of the meeting, each working group produced an initial draft manuscript for one section of the publication.

What the meeting was not

This was not a traditional meeting in which people present papers or listen to others present papers. This was not a discussion about individual site-based questions and analyses.

Current List of Participants:

Jorge Ahumada, TEAM Initiative, USA
Samuel de Almeida, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
Ideme Gomes Amaral, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
Ieda Amaral, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Sandy Andelman, TEAM Initiative, USA
Peter Arcese, University of British Columbia, Canada
Peter Arzberger, University of California San Diego , USA
Kofi Affum Baffoe, Forestry Commission, GhanaFrancisco Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Francisco Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nancy Baron, SeaWeb/COMPASS, USA
Lucio Bede, Conservation International, Brazil
Bruce Beehler, Conservation International, USA
Robert Bensted-Smith, Conservation International, Ecuador
Enrico Bernard, Conservation International, Brazil
Hilandia Brandao, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Scott Brandes, TEAM Initiative, USA Steve Buckland, University of St Andrews, UK Roberto Cavalcanti, Conservation International, USA
David Clark, University of Missouri, St. Louis and La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica Deborah Clark, University of Missouri, St. Louis and La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica
Robert Colwell, University of Connecticut, USA
Mario Conh-Haft, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Michael Cummings, University of Maryland College Park, USA
Stuart Davies, Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Institute, USA
Jan Dempewolf, University of Maryland, USA
Philip DeVries, University of New Orleans, USA
Luiz Diaz, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Andrew Dobson, Princeton University, USA
Ron Eastman, Clark University, USA
Corneille Ewango, University of Missouri, St. Louis and Wildlife Conservation Society, Democratic Republic of Congo
Gustavo Fonseca, Conservation International, USA
Tony Fountain, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jorge Gallardo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Lorena Garcia-Bustos, TEAM Initiative, USA
Claude Gascon, Conservation International, USA
Rhys Green, University of Cambridge, UK
Ana Yoshi Harada, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
William Hargrove, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Frank Hawkins, Conservation International, Madagascar Tom Hayden, Science journalist, USA Jenny Hewson, TEAM Initiative, USA
Andre Hirsch, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Suzana Ketelhut, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Cecilia Kierulff, Sao Paulo Zoo, Brazil
David Kingsbury, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA
Margaret Kinnaird, Wildlife Conservation Society, USA
Caroline Kuebler, TEAM Initiative, USA Thomas Lacher, Jr, Conservation International, USA
Russell Lande, University of California, San Diego, USA
John LaPolla, Smithsonian Institution, USA
John Lattke, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Marcelo Leite, Science Journalist, Brazil
Subhash Lele, University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada
Simon Lewis, University of Leeds, UK
Natasha Loder, The Economist, UK
John Longino, Evergreen State College, USA
Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
Elizabeth Losos, Organization for Tropical Studies at Duke University, USA
Flavio Luizao, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
David Malakoff, National Public Radio, USA
Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford, UK
Simone de Souza Martins, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
Marcelo Matsumura, Centro Universitário do Leste de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jan Meijer, Conservation International, Suriname
Eric Michel, Conservation International, USA
Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Edinaldo Nelson, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Jim Nichols, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, USA
Ryan Norris, University of British Columbia, Canada
Tim O’Brien, Wildlife Conservation Society, USA
Jim Omura, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA
Evandro Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
William Overal, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
Minu Parahoe, Celos- Centre for Agricultural research, Suriname
Thiago Rangel, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
Alan Ribeiro, Centro Universitário do Leste de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Servio Pontes Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
Anthony Rylands, Conservation International, USA
James Sanderson, TEAM Initiative, USA
Leandro Morais Scoss, Universidade Vale do Rio Doce, Brazil
Rebecca Shaw, The Nature Conservancy, USA
Ansmarie Soetosenojo, Celos- Centre for Agricultural research, Suriname
Luis Solorzano, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA
Bonaventure Sonke, The University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
Jose Maria da Silva, Conservation International, Brazil
Wilson Spironello, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Tereza Sposito, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Marc Steininger, Conservation International, USA
Mel Sunquist, University of Florida, USA
Kenneth Tjon, Celos- Centre for Agricultural research, Suriname
Luis Renato Valencia, Catholic University, Ecuador
Rudolf van Kanten, Celos- Centre for Agricultural research, Suriname
Rosemary Viera, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia/INPA, Brazil
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
Michael Willig, University of Connecticut, USA
Patricia Wright, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Suzanne Zweizig, Conservation International, USA

For more information regarding the TEAM Network Science Meeting, please contact Caroline Kuebler at c.kuebler@conservation.org