The editors gratefully acknowledge the
many collaborators who have made this project
a reality, and apologise in advance to anyone
who may have inadvertently been left out
from this list.
This project was financed by the MAVA Foundation;
in particular the span support and encouragement
from Luc Hoffmann and Pierre Goeldlin has
been greatly appreciated.
Three IUCN interns have worked on this project:
Patricia Désilets (July-December
2003), and Marie Lafontaine (October 2004-April
2005) who were supported by the Government
of Québec International Governmental
Organization Internship Program, and Svenja
Busse, supported by the German agency BFIO
– Bureau for International Organizations
Personnel (February-July, 2004). Our warm
thanks to them for their cheerful liaison
with the many collaborators in this project.
The following scientists and conservationists
have contributed their knowledge and photos
to this project and are thanked for their
patience (SSC members are marked with
an asterisk): Gabriel Alziar* (Jardin
Botanique de la Ville de Nice); Pier Virgilio
Arrigoni (Università degli Studi
di Firenze); Gianluigi Bacchetta (Università di
Cagliari); Alfred E. Baldacchino (Malta
Environment & Planning Authority);
Gabriel Bibiloni (Universitat de les
Illes Balears); Emanuele Boccheri; Ignazio
Camarda (University of Sassari); Charalambos
S. Christodoulou (Forestry Department,
Nicosia); Yiannis Christofides; Paolo
Colombo; Theophanis Constantinidis (Agricultural
University of Athens); Manuel B. Crespo
(Universidad de Alicante); Olivia Delanoë*
(INEA Ingénieurs-conseil, Nature,
Environnement, Aménagements); Aljos
Farjon*(RBG Kew); Eladio Fernández-Galiano
(Council of Europe); Bruno Foggi* (Università
di Firenze); Christina Fournaraki (Mediterranean
Agronomic Institute of Chania, Kriti);
Pere Fraga Arguimbau (Consell Insular
de Menorca); Alain Fridlender (Université de
Provence, Marseille); David Galicia Herbada
(TRAGSA,
Área de Medio Ambiente); Jacques
Gamisans* (Université Toulouse
III); Giuseppe Garfì (CNR – Istituto
per i Sistemi Agricoli e Forestali del
Mediterraneo (ISAFoM)); Lorenzo Gianguzzi
(Università
degli Studi di Palermo); Anna Giordano
(WWF-Italia); César Gómez-Campo
(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid);
Josep Lluis Gradaille (Jardí Botànic
De Sóller, Mallorca); Georgios
Hadjikyriakou; Gregoris Iatroú (University
of Patras); José Maria Iriondo*
(Universidad Politecnica, Madrid); Armin
Jagel; Ralf Jahn (Universität Regensburg);
Daniel Jeanmonod (Conservatoire et Jardin
Botaniques de la Ville de Genève);
Ana Juan (Universidad de Alicante); Stephen
Jury (Reading University, UK); Costas
Kadis* (Research Promotion Foundation,
Cyprus); Georgia Kamari* (University of
Patras); Wolf-Henning Kusber (Berlin Botanic
Garden); Zacharias Kypriotakis* (Technological
Education Institute, Kriti); Emilio Laguna
Lumbreras* (Generalitat Valenciana); Antonino
La Mantia (Università degli Studi
di Palermo); Edwin Lanfranco* (University
of Malta); Sandro Lanfranco; Leonardo
Llorens Garcia* (Universitat de les Illes
Balears); Pietro Lo Cascio; Christodoulos
Makris; Jean-François Marzocchi;
Joan Mayol* (Conselleria de Medi Ambient.
Govern Balear); Frédéric
Medail* (Université de Marseille
III); Henri Michaud (Conservatoire Botanique
National Méditerranéen);
Juan Carlos Moreno Saiz (Universidad
Autónoma
de Madrid); Juan Francisco Mota Poveda
(Universidad de Almería); Maurici
Mus* (Universitat de les Illes Balears);
Toni Nikolic* (University of Zagreb);
Guilhan Paradis*; Salvatore Pasta; Pietro
Pavone (Fitogeografia della Sicilia,
Università di Catania);
Claudia Perini* (Università di Siena);
Dinitrios Phitos; Angélique Quilichini*
(Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse);
Francesco Maria Raimondo* (Università
di Palermo); Dominique Richard (European
Topic Centre); Juan Rita Larrucea* (Universitat
de les Illes Balears); Federico Selvi
(Università
degli Studi di Firenze); Darrin Stevens*
(Malta Environment and Planning Authority);
Angelo Troìa* (Riserva Naturale
Orientata
“Saline di Trapani e Paceco”);
Nicholas J. Turland (Missouri Botanical
Garden); Dimitris Tzanoudakis* (NoteTab ProUniversity
of Patras); Paolo Usai* (Università
degli Studi di Cagliari); Giuseppe Venturella*
(Università di Palermo); Josep
Vicens Fandos* (Universidad de Barcelona);
Deryck E. Viney* (Herbarium of Northern
Cyprus). The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
and the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches
Museum Berlin-Dahlin, FU Berlin also
kindly supplied herbarium specimen photos
of plants for this work.
Proof-reading of the English version by
Hazel Sharman and Patty Jacobs of Fairchild
Tropical Botanic Garden, SSC volunteer William
John Rogers and SSC communication staff
Anna Knee, Andrew McMullin and Bryan Hugill
(who also helped on the website) is gratefully
acknowledged. Technical input by SSC Red
List Programme Officer Craig Hilton-Taylor
and Programme Officer Mariano Gimenez Dixon,
who helped with the maps, was also much
appreciated. Travis Gobeil provided the
first design of this booklet which he unfortunately
could not complete due to illness; we wish
him the best for the future. The IUCN French
National Committee has provided support
on several occasions to the development
of this project, for which they are greatly
thanked.
Finally special thanks to Denis Landenbergue
for his support throughout this project.
