Introduction

First-round winners

The first-round Biodiversity Leadership Award winners were announced in 1995. There were three winners (in one case, two scientists shared an award), and they represented biodiversity research in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico.

As might be expected in a program that seeks to encourage leadership in the understanding, conservation, and protection of biological diversity, the first Leadership Award winners are using their awards in a variety of ways to further their research.

William S. (Bil) Alverson continues his work on an inventory of the often-overlooked genetic diversity of temperate forests.

Carlos A. Peres has plunged into his laboratory — the Amazon basin, the greatest treasure of terrestrial biodiversity on Earth — with new projects and a growing cadre of students, drawn to the field of ecology by news of Peres’s recognition.

Eduardo Santana Castellon and Enrique Jardel Pelaez are concentrating on encouraging multidisciplinary research (often urged and talked about but difficult to achieve in an academic research setting) in their unique biosphere laboratory in western Mexico.

For more details on each of the first-round Award winners and their work, click on their names above.

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