Monitoring Biodiversity: Lessons from a Trans-Andean Megaproject

ALFONSO ALONSO is a conservation biologist and Director of the Field Programs at the Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Since 1996 he has established strategic partnerships for conservation and development programs with the energy industry. FRANCISCO DALLMEIER has been a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Institution since 1986.  He is the Director of the Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. He has developed programs associated to biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation in Latin America and Africa.GRACE P. SERVAT is an associate researcher with the Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. She has extensive experience doing ecological research in the Andes and Amazon systems.