Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, Second Edition

Charles A. Woods is Curator Emeritus at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont. He is the editor of Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future (1989) and Biodiversity of Pakistan (1997), and the author of many publications on various aspects of systematics, evolution, ecology, and biogeography. His interests in the West Indies have involved work on many islands, and he is currently completing a book on the mammals of the West Indies. He is also interested in the biogeography of sky islands, and has made many extended expeditions into the Himalayas and Hindu Kush and Karakoram ranges. He is completing a book on the mammals of the Western Himalayas.

Florence E. Sergile is a visiting scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida. She is an agronomist with expertise in the fields of natural resource management and environmental education. She has spent much of her career working on the management of natural sites in Haiti. She has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Haiti and has worked for USAID, the United Nations, and the World Bank. She was a consultant for the production of the National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) for Haiti. During the past decade she also served as Director of Haiti-NET, a center for the conservation of the natural patrimony of Haiti.