Robert Scotland. Lecturer in Systematic Botany in the University of Oxford, England for more than 15 years. Specialist in Acanthaceae and with a world reputation for his studies in pollen morphology. Joint leader (with Colin Hughes) of the project at Oxford. Will train project personal who study at Oxford.

Colin Hughes. Research worker at the University of Oxford and University of Zurich (Switzerland) and specialist in Leguminosae. Joint leader (with Robert Scotland) of the project at Oxford. Has worked in Bolivia on various projects including taxonomic studies of the genus Lupinus and on the earlier Darwin project on endemism and conservation of plants from the Inter-Andean valleys. Will provide training and support in the identification of Leguminosae for the project and will continue research with Margoth Atahuachi of Cochabamba into the genus Mimosa which is one of the most diverse in the cerrados with several endemic and new species.

Currently head of botany in the Herbario del Oriente Boliviano of the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum. His research interests are in botany and ecology, especially floristics and the monitoring of forest ecology and he is currently carrying out research for the Red Amazónica de inventarios Forestales de la Amazonía. He has worked with and coordinated various projects including the checklist of the flora of the Madidi region with the Missouri Botanical Garden and the history of the vegetation of Bolivia since the quaternary with the University of Edinburgh and the programme as well as carrying out research in the programme coordinated by Green Cross on the management and sustainable use of native and endemic plants.

John Wood is the representative of the Department of Plant Sciences of Oxford University with responsibility for the coordination of the project. Since 1993 he has coordinated various projects in Bolivia in the fields of higher education (Language and linguistics), botanical research and biodiversity conservation. Since 2001 he has worked at Oxford University and coordinated the previous Darwin project on plant endemism and conservation in the inter-Andean valleys of Bolivia. He has studied and collected plants in various countries of America and Asia and has contributed to the floras of Bhutan, China, Sri Lanka and Yemen. He is a specialist in the families Acanthaceae and Lamiaceae and has published numerous papers on these groups.

Paola Pozo has a biology degree with specializations in botany and plant conservation (UVADI-BOTÁNICA) from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz- Bolivia). She was awarded a diploma as best student in the biology department. In 2007 she completed her thesis with a population study of Anacardium humile (cayú of the Cerrado) and the sucesión dynamics of the Cerrado physiognomies through the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB). Since 2005 she has worked on various projects with the LPB until joining the Project. Her interests are in the ecology and diversity of the Bolivian Cerrado and the taxonomy of Malpighiaceae and Asteraceae. She has prepared papers on Calea and Porophyllum with the Project.

Daniel Soto has a degree in Forestry from the Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno. Since 2001 he has been an honorary assistant at the Herbario Regional del Oriente Boliviano (USZ) where he was responsible for collections in 2002. He has also participated in various training courses and vegetation studies with the Missouri Botanical Garden, WCS and IBIF. He was joint author of the article: Vascular plant species diversity along a deciduous to evergreen forest gradient in central Bolivia. AS a member of the project team his interests are in the diversity of vegetation in the Cerrado and in the taxonomy of Rubiaceae and Sapindaceae. He has prepared papers on Borreria and Mitrocarpus in collaborations wit Elsa Cabral and colleagues from Corrientes in Argentina.

Fabiana Mamani studied Agronomy in the Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno. Originally she worked as an honorary assistant in the Entomology, Environmental education and botanical sections of the Noel Kempff Natural History Museum but since 1994 has been part of the technical team as botanical curator in the Museum. She is coauthor of “Diversity composition and structure of a tropical semideciduous forest in the Chiquitano region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia” in the Journal of Tropical Ecology(1997). She asks as administrative coordinator for the project and has a specialist interest in the family Euphorbiaceae.