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Mercantour/Alpi Marittime
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Contact: Prof. Dr. Philippe Bouchet, Natural History Museum Paris, France

In 2006 presented by: Prof. Dr. Philippe Bouchet, Natural History Museum Paris, France.

The Alpi Marittime natural park in Italy and the Mercantour natural park in France together form one of Europe’s rare bi-national nature reserves of which staff works closely together. The inventory of vertebrate species is as good as complete, whereas the flora and invertebrate fauna remain largely unknown. The vertebrate inventories and recent initiations of inventories of plants and saproxylic beetles, illustrate have revealed high levels of endemism, which underlines the importance of the region in the chain of Alpine nature reserves.

In May 2007, the ATBI+M programme was initiated by over 40 scientists from EDIT and non-EDIT member institutions.
Visit the website on All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories in Mercantour/Alpi Marittime:


The area falls under the Birds Directive and European Diploma Type 'A'.
Alpi Marittime: http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=6022&level=nat
Mercantour: http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=664&level=nat
Click to download BOUCHET_2006_Mercantour.pdf


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1-Karin Wolf-Schwenninger, SMNS (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Carabidae
2-Marta De Biaggi, Parco Naturale Alpi Marittime (Italy)
3-Dr. Quentin Groom, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Belgium)
Expertise: Higher plants
4-Peter Fenda, Comenius University Bratislava (Slovakia)
Expertise: Acari, Mesostigmata
5-Frank Fiers, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium)
Expertise: Copepoda
6-Anthony Turpaud, Parc national du Mercantour (France)
Expertise: Myrmecologie
7-Norbert Hirneisen, (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
8-Harald Pauli, University of Vienna & Austrain Academy of Sciences (Austria)
Expertise: vascular plants
9-Yoan Braud, ECO-MED and MNHN (France)
Expertise: Insects, Orthoptera
10-Marc Pollet, IWT-Flanders; KBIN; University of Ghent (UGent) (Belgium)
Expertise: Diptera: Dolichopodidae
11-Torsten Bittner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera
12-Bas Kokshoorn, Naturalis, Leiden (The Netherlands)
13-Isabella Van de Velde, RBINS (Belgium)
14-Thomas Pape, Natural History Museum of Denmark (Denmark)
Expertise: Diptera
15-Patricia Mergen, Africa Museum (Belgium)
16-Klaus Riede, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (Germany)
Expertise: Orthoptera, Cicadidae
17-Dietger Hausenblas, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (Germany)
Expertise: Microlepidoptera
18-Merijn Bos, State Natural History Museum (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera: Formicidae
19-Axel Steiner, State Museum of Natural History (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae
20-Eduard Stloukal, Comenius University (Slovakia)
Expertise: Protozoa, Crustacea
21-Jean-Yves Rasplus, INRA (France)
Expertise: Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Mutillidae, Chrysididae
22-JOSE LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain)
Expertise: Cynipoidea and Chalcidoidea
23-Manfred Verhaagh, State Museum of Natural History (Karlsruhe)
Expertise: Hymenoptera: Formicidae
24-Cornelia Warneke-Cremer, University of Hamburg (Germany)
25-Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga, CSIC (Spain)
26-Cees van Achterberg, Natural History Museum, Naturalis (the Netherlands)
Expertise: Hymenoptera, Braconidae
27-Hans-Peter Tschorsnig, State Museum of Natural History (Germany)
28-Martin Nebel, State Museum of Natural History (Germany)
29-Maciey Postuszng, (Poland)
30-Philippe Bouchet, Natural History Museum Paris (France)
31-Louis Deharveng, Natural History Museum Paris (France)
32-Mikhail Andreev, Komarov Botanical Institute (Russia)
33-Marek Wanat, Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University (Poland)
Expertise: Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
34-Koos J. C. Biesmeijer, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
35-Christoph Häuser, Museum für Naturkunde (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
36-Daniel Bartsch, State Museum of Natural History (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
37-Karol Marhold, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)
38-Axel Hausmann, Zoologische Staatssammlung München (Germany)
Expertise: Geometridae
39-David Tarkhnishvili, Chavchavadze State University (Georgia)
40-Mark Judson, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France)
41-Sandra McInnes, Bristish Antarctic Survey (UK)
Expertise: Tardigrada
42-Ole Karsholt, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum (Denmark)
Expertise: Lepidoptera, especially Gelechiidae, Micropterigidae, Ochsenheimeriinae
43-Markus Preussing, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde (Germany)
Expertise: Marchantiophyta, Bryophyta
44-Gerhard M. Tarmann, Tiroler Landesmuseen, Ferdinandeum (Austria)
Expertise: Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae
45-Mauro Paschetta, Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di biologia animale e dell'uomo (Italy)
Expertise: Araneae
46-Daniele Sommaggio, DiSTA, Bologna University (Italy)
Expertise: Syrphidae
47-Carlos Lado, Real Jardín Botánico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
Expertise: Eumycetozoans, Myxomycetes, Protostelids, Dictyostelids
48-Nicolas Moulin, Indépendant - MNHN (France)
Expertise: Dictyoptera: Mantodea ; Orthoptera ; Lepidoptera ; Odonata ; Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cerambycidae
49-Pjotr Oosterbroek, Zoological Museum University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Tipulidae (Insecta, Diptera, Craneflies)
50-Marco Bardiani, Corpo Forestale dello Stato - Centro per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale. (Italy)
51-Marco Isaia, Università di Torino (Italia)
Expertise: Araneae
52-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kost, Philipps University Marburg (Germany)
Expertise: Basidiomycota, Tricholomatales
53-Fabio Mosconi, Università La Sapienza (Italy)
Expertise: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths); Cave Lepidoptera
54-Manfred Kahlen, Tiroler Landesmuseen-BetriebsGmbH, Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen (Österreich)
Expertise: Coleoptera
55-Erik J. van Nieukerken, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (Netherlands)
Expertise: Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea and general Microlepidoptera
56-Vonk Ronald Vonk, Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam ()
Expertise: peracarid crustaceans, fishes
57-Romain Edouard GARROUSTE, MNHN (France)
Expertise: insects : Hemiptera Heteroptera (terrestrial, aquatic and MARINE) For western Europe : Odonata
58-Thomas Wesener, Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Germany)
Expertise: Diplopoda
59-Peter Huemer, Tiroler Landesmuseen (Austria)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
60-Gareth KING, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid (Spain)
Expertise: Geometridae especially the subfamily; Sterrhinae.
61-Marcel Uhrin, (Slovakia)
Expertise: Chiroptera
62-Kim Jacobsen, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium)
Expertise: RMCA WP7/8 new collaborator
63-Tatiana Dautova, Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Octocorallia, Hexacorallia
64-Salim Dautov, Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Echinodermata
65-Manfred Kahlen, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Naturwissenschaften (Austria)
Expertise: Coleoptera
66-Gabriele Chiappetta, Università di Torino (Italy)
Expertise: Carabidae
67-Vera Malysheva, Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Fungi: Basidiomycota: Polyporales, Cantharellales, Tremellales, Exidiales
68-Ekaterina Malysheva, Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricales, Boletales, Russulales
69-kirtsideli irina, Komarov Botanical Institute RAS (Russia)
Expertise: soil microfungi, Arctic, mountains, extreme environments, cold, adaptation,
70-Domir De Bakker, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium)
Expertise: Araneae
71-Mikhail Zhurbenko, Komarov Botanical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Lichenicolous fungi (ascomycetes, imperfect fungi). Terricolous alpine lichens. Over 80 publications and over 30 described new species.
72-Abishkar Subedi, National Herbarium of Netherlands, Leiden University Branch (Netherlands)
Expertise: Orchid Taxonomy and Phylogeny
73-Etienne IORIO, Attaché au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) (France)
Expertise: Chilopoda (centipedes)
74-Roland Mühlethaler, Museum für Naturkunde (Germany)
Expertise: Auchenorrhyncha; Cicadomorpha, Fulgoromorpha, Cicadellidae
75-Andrzej Woźnica, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland)
Expertise: Heleomyzidae s. lato, Trixoscelididae, Cnemospathididae - Diptera
76-nicola , (Italy)
77-Francesca Barbero, Dip. di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo (Università di Torino) (Italy)
Expertise: Lipidoptera
78-Simona Bonelli, Dip. di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo (Università di Torino) (Italy)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
79-Marie-France LECCIA, Parc National du Mercantour (France)
80-Reza Zahiri, University of Turku (FINLAND)
Expertise: Quadrifine Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
81-Dr. Frank Rosenbauer , (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
82-Peter Degma, Department of Zoology, Comenius University (Slovakia)
Expertise: limnic and terrestrial Tardigrada
83-Matúš Kúdela , (Slovakia)
Expertise: Diptera: Simuliidae, Blephariceridae; Odonata
84-Christian Komposch, Mag. Dr., OEKOTEAM - Institute for Animal Ecology and Landscape Planning (Austria)
Expertise: Taxonomy, zoogeography and faunistics of arachnids, especially harvestmen (Opiliones) and spiders (Araneae); actual study (paper, in press) of endemic harvestmen, spiders and scorpions of Austria (Eastern Alps); list of publication see http://www.oekoteam.at/christian.php
85-Peer Schnitter, Landesamt für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt (Deutschland)
Expertise: Carabidae (Coleoptera)
86-Volker Neumann, (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Buprestidae, Cleridae, Tenebrionidae
87-Samuel Jolivet, OPIE (Office pour les insectes et leur environnement) (France)
Expertise: Odonata; Trichoptera (larval stage)
88-Hans-Peter Tschorsnig, (Germany)
Expertise: Tachinidae
89-Fabio Cianferoni, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy)
Expertise: Hemiptera Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha
90-Giuseppe Mazza, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy)
Expertise: Aquatic Insects
91-Fabio Terzani, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy)
Expertise: Odonata
92-Francesca Zinetti, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy)
Expertise: Endangered species
93-Saverio Rocchi, Museo Zoologico "La Specola", Università di Firenze (Italia)
Expertise: Coleoptera Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae (Hydradephaga)
94-Axel Ludwig Schoenhofer, University of Mainz (Germany)
Expertise: Harvestmen-Opiliones
95-Anke Hoffmann, Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (Germany)
Expertise: Small mammals (Rodentia, Macroscelidae, Soricidae) and Bats
96-Stefano Macchetta, (Italy)
Expertise: Botany
97-Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, University Of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Expertise: Strepsiptera and their hosts
98-Dirk Stubbe, Ghent University (Belgium)
Expertise: macrofungi, Lactarius
99-Kobeke Van de Putte, Ghent University, department of biology, research group mycology (Country)
Expertise: Macrofungi, Lactarius & the Lactarius volemus species complex
100-Filippo Maria Buzzetti, WBA-World Biodiversity Association (Italy)
Expertise: Orthoptera; Heteroptera: Gerromorpha
101-Jan Decher, University of Vermont. Dept. of Biology (USA)
Expertise: small mammals: shrews, bats, rodents
102-Vincent Vedel, INRA Kourou, Guyane (France)
Expertise: Spiders, myriapods
103-Susana Neves, ITQB - Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Expertise: Vascular plants; Bupleurum, Apiaceae, Eleusine, Poaceae, Lathyrus, Fabaceae
104-Alain Vanderpoorten, University of Liège (Belgium)
Expertise: bryophytes
105-Alexander Kroupa, SMNS (Germany)
Expertise: Hymenoptera, Aculeata
106-Agnes Kirchhoff, Freie Universität Berlin, BGBM (Germany)
107-Heinrich Schatz Dr., Institute of Ecology, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck (Austria)
Expertise: Acari Oribatida
108-Lars Krogmann, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (Germany)
Expertise: Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps) and Pompilidae (spider wasps)
109-julien amouret, (france)
Expertise: level bachelor of biology
110- , ()
111-Elke Zippel, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (Germany)
Expertise: Flora and vegetation (higher plants, bryophytes), population genetics
112- , ()
113-Ingmar Harry, (Germany)
Expertise: Carabidae
114-Rafael Marquez, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) (Spain)
Expertise: amphibians / reptiles
115-Harald Komposch, OIKOS - Institute for ecology and basic research (Austria)
Expertise: lichens
116-Mihail Kechev, Agricultural College (Bulgaria)
Expertise: Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Brachycera)
117-John T. Smit, European Invertebrate Survey - the Netherlands (the Netherlands)
Expertise: Diptera: Syrphidae & Tephritoidea
118-Hans Christof Zeller-Lukashort, Haus der Natur, Naturkundliche Gesellschaft (Austria)
Expertise: lepidoptera, focus on primitive moths
119-Laurens Sparrius, Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Lichens
120-Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Biology (Romania)
Expertise: Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae
121-Paloma Martinez, UAM (Spain)
122-Gerard Delvare, CIRAD (France)
Expertise: Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea
123-Dr. Christian Schmid-Egger, Privat (Germany)
Expertise: Hymenoptera Aculeata /Sphecids
124-Patrick Grootaert, Department Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium)
Expertise: Diptera, Empidoidea
125-Matteo Elio Siesa, University of Milan (Italy)
Expertise: Odonata-Dragonflies
126-Costanza Uboni, University of Trieste (Italy)
Expertise: Dragonflies
127-Luca Pietro Casacci, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo (Italy)
Expertise: Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera
128-Cristiana Cerrato, Turin University (Italy)
Expertise: Lepidoptera Rhopalocera
129-Alberto Chiarle, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino (MRSN) (Italy)
Expertise: Araneae
130-Federica La Pietra, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino (MRSN) (Italy)
Expertise: Mollusca
131-Nicole Starik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)
Expertise: small mammals: rodents & bats
132-Stefano Birindelli, (Italia)
Expertise: MALACOLOGIA
133-Emilie Dehant, Université du Sud Toulon-Var (France)
134-Mitko Karadelev, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics (Macedonia)
Expertise: Fungi, Macromycetes, Basidiomycetes. Aphyllophorales:Corticiaceae & Polyporaceae
135-Jan Maca, Czech Institute of Nature Conservation (Czech Republic)
Expertise: Diptera, mainly Drosophilidae, Lonchaeidae, Diastatidae
136-Birgit Gemeinholzer, bgbm (germany)
137-Laszlo Zoltan Laszlo, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
Expertise: Hymanoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae
138-Emanuele Biggi, (Italy)
Expertise: Amphibians and Reptiles
139-Christophe Daugeron, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (France)
Expertise: Diptera Empididae
140-Olavi Kurina, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Estonia)
Expertise: Diptera: Sciaroidea
141-Felix Javier Gonzalez Estebanez, University of Leon (Spain)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
142-Jeroen de Rond, freelance faunistic researcher (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Hymenoptera Aculeata, with specialization in Chrysidoidea
143-Regis Ferriere, Ecole Normale Superieure (France)
Expertise: Herpetology
144-Rosa Menendez, Lancaster University (UK)
Expertise: Coleoptera (Scarabaeidae) and Lepidoptera (Ropalocera)
145-Anna Nesterovich, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)
Expertise: Freshwater algae
146-Daniel Berkowic, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
147-Ali Halajian, Tuscia university,Italy (Iran)
Expertise: Parasites, Helminthology, Birds helminths
148-TAUTEL CLAUDE TAUTEL, MNHN (FRANCE)
Expertise: LEPIDOPTERA
149-hannah siri huebner, museum koenig, bonn (germany)
Expertise: thesis about morphology and taxonomy of amphipods, biomolecular methods
150-Tanja Rogatsch, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria)
Expertise: Spiders (Araneae), (Opiliones, Heteroptera) in cooperation with Dr. Christian Komposch & Mag. Thomas Fries
151-Barbara Rizzioli, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)
Expertise: Araneae, Isopoda
152-Daniel Kreiner, Nationalpark Gesäuse Nature Conservation & Research (Austria)
Expertise: Botany
153-Lisbeth Zechner, National Park Gesaeuse (Austria)
Expertise: birds, orthoptera
154-JOSE GUTIERREZ ALVAREZ, UNIVERSIDAD DE LEON (SPAIN)
Expertise: WATERBEETLES
155-Humberto Merayo Alba, Univeridad de León (España)
Expertise: My specialty is as Heteroceos lepidoteros Ropalocers both of these noctudos especially those who took several years to its study
156-Arved Dr. Lompe, Private (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera; specialized on Trechus and related taxa
157-József Geml, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Fungi
158-Axel Ssymank, Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Konstantinstrasse 110, 53179 Bonn (Germany)
Expertise: Syrphidae, Conopidae, Stratiomyidae (Diptera)
159-Valentina Lupano, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)
Expertise: Butterflies
160-Susanne Popp, Karl Franzens Universität, Graz (Austria)
Expertise: Opiliones Aranea Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha
161-Reinmar Eggers, KF Uni Graz (Austria)
Expertise: Birds, Interested in Plants
162-Rachel Korn, (Austria)
Expertise: Heteroptera
163-Pauline Neuhold, (Austria)
Expertise: araneae, opiliones, auchenorrhyncha
164-Josef Schnelzer, (Austria)
165-Holger Zimmermann, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz (Austria)
Expertise: Auchenorrhyncha
166-Ismene Fertschai, University Graz (Austria)
Expertise: Ensifera, Caelifera , Lepidoptera (interest)
167-Gabriele Hödl, (Austria)
Expertise: Insekten und Spinnentiere
168-Miloš Černý, (Czech Republic)
Expertise: Diptera: Agromyzidae
169-Maurizio Valota, Freelancer (Italy)
Expertise: Amphibia
170-Cornelia Deckert, (Germany)
Expertise: Vascular plants
171-Ruth Bone, associated with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and IRD, France (based in the UK)
Expertise: Angiosperm taxonomy and conservation.
172-Enrico Ercole, University of Turin, Department of Plant Biology (Italy)
Expertise: Cyperaceae, Balsaminaceae, Orchidaceae and microfungi (mycorrhiza). I am expertise also in Alpin Flora and plant invasive alien species
173-Arne Saatkamp, IMEP - Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie (France)
Expertise: Bryophytes (Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotae), Vascular plants,
174-LUIGI PANNO, DEPARTMENT OF PLANT BIOLOGY - MYCOTHECA UNIVERSITATIS TAURINENSIS- MUT (ITALIA)
Expertise: FUNGAL BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMATIC OF MARINE FUNGI, IDENTIFICATION OF ANAMORPHIC/TELOMORPHIC ASCOMYCETES AND BASIDIOMYCETES (MICRO and MACROFUNGI).
175-Paramjit Singh, (India)
Expertise: Taxonomy of temperate and alpine plants especially grasses and bamboos, interest in Nomenclature
176-Ronny Straetling, Delattinia e.V. (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera, Papilionoidae, Hesperioidae, Zygaenoidae and some others in less extent (Geometridae, Noctuidae, Sphingidae...)
177-Martin Kubiak, Biozentrum Grindel & Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (Germany)
Expertise: Trichoptera (all groups)
178-Christian König, Universität Hohenheim (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera, Elateridae
179-Marc Pollet, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) (Belgium)
Expertise: Diptera: Dolichopodidae
180-Lorenzo Gallo, free-lance (Italy)
Expertise: Botany: Crassulaceae family
181-Anna Mácová, (Czech Republic)
Expertise: small rodents (Muridae, Arvicolidae, ...), protozoan intestine parasites of small rodents (Apicomplexa)
182-MARC BARBIER, INRA (France)
Expertise: taxonomic gap