Listed below are the contact persons from the different institutes:
- Alterra, Wageningen UR, the Netherlands: Rob Jongman
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC-CEH, UK: Terry Parr
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Germany: Klaus Henle
- EC-Joint Research Centre, JRC, Ispra, Italy: Christine Estreguil
- Umweltbundesamt, Austria: Johannes Peterseil
- University of Bucharest, UNIBUC, Romania: Angheluta Vadineanu
- CEMAGREF (France): Philip Roche
- Instituut voor Natuur en Bosonderzoek, INBO, Belgium: Geert de Blust
- University of Edinburgh, UEdin, UK: Marc Metzger
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority, INPA, Israel: Linda Whittaker
- Stiftelsen norsk institutt for naturforskning NINA, Norway: Erik Framstad
- Institute for landscape ecology, ILE SAS, Slovakia: Julius Oszlanyi
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTH,Greece: Ioannis Ispikoudis
- Estonian University of Life Sciences, EMU, Estonia: Kalev Sepp
- Universidad Politecnica Madrid, UPM, Spain: Ramon Elena Rosello
- Sveriges lanbrukuniversitet SLU, Sweden: Hakan Olsson
- University Vienna, Dept Conservation Biology, UniVie, Austria: Thomas Wrbka
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, SA: Melanie Vogel