Haruko Ando, chair of the localorganizing committee (National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Claudine Ah-Peng (University of La Réunion, France)

Paulo Alexandre Vieira Borges (University of Azores, Portugal)

Alessandro Chiarucci (University of Bologna, Italy)

Vanessa Cutts (University of Nottingham, UK)

Don Drake (University of Hawaii, USA)

Simone Fattorini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

Richard Field (University of Nottingham)

José María Fernández-Palacios (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Severin Irl (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

Corrado Marcenò (University of Perugia, Italy)

Frédéric Médail (Aix-Marseille University, France)

Lea de Nascimento (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Manuel Steinbauer (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Panayiotis Trigas (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece)

Robert J. Whittaker (University of Oxford, UK)

Luis Valente (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Harue Abe (Niigata University, Japan)

Shun Ito (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Naoko Emura (Kagoshima University, Japan)

Shun Koboyashi (Ryukyu University, Japan)

Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo, Japan)

Kyoko Sugai (Shimane University, Japan)

Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Masayoshi Hiraiwa (Kindai University, Japan)

Setsuko Suzuki (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan)

Koji Takayama (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

Leiko Mizusawa (Fukushima University, Japan)

Tetsuro Yoshikawa (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan)

Kenta Watanabe (National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Japan)