Per Angelstam,^* Grzegorz Mikusiński,^** Britt-Inger Rönnbäck,^*** Anders Östman,^**** Marius Lazdinis,^***** Jean-Michel Roberge,^****** Wolter Arnberg,^******* Jan Olsson<sup>********


*</sup>Per Angelstam is an ecologist with a an interest in applying knowledge in practical land-use management. Currently, he is studying the effects of landscape change on biodiversity at multiple spatial and temporal scales in boreal and mountain forests with different management and histories (www.bornet.org). He is also working with land managers to develop targets to assess and tools communicate to the status and trends of different elements of biodiversity in forests and ancient cultural landscapes. per.angelstam@nvb.slu.se
^**Grzegorz Mikusiński is a researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main interest concerns the relationships between landscape composition and biological diversity. He is also a lecturer in landscape ecology at Örebro University. grzegorz.mikusinski@nat.ore.se
^***Britt-Inger Rönnbäck is a PhD student at the Division of Geographical Information Technology, Luleå University of Technology. She has an MSc in surveying, and a licentiate degree in geographic information technology. Before joining Luleå University of Technology she worked as a software developer and system analyst at the Swedish Space Corporation and at the Swedish Land Survey. She is planning to defend her PhD thesis winter 2004. The thesis concerns spatial data quality and data usability. Her address: Department of Environmental Engineering, Geographical Information Technology, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87, Luleå, Sweden. britt-inger.ronnback@sb.luth.se
^****Anders Östman is a professor at the Division of Geographic Information Technology, Luleå University of Technology, and the head of the division. He has an MSc in surveying and a PhD in photogrammetry. He has also worked for Intergraph, an American GIS software vendor. Since 1993, he has gradually established the research and educational facilities in GIS at Luleå University of Technology, where he received a full professorship in 1997. His research concerns spatial data quality. His address: Department of Environmental Engineering, Geographical Information Technology, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87, Luleå, Sweden. anders.ostman@sb.luth.se
^*****Marius Lazdinis completed his Masters degree in forest protection at Lithuanian Agricultural University. Before starting his PhD in Southern Illinois University, USA, he worked for the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment and was responsible for international cooperation in the forest sector. Since completion of a PhD in policy science at Southern Illinois University, USA, he has been a doctoral student in ecology at Department of Conservation Biology at the Swedish University of Agriculture. His address: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden.marius.lazdinis@nvb.slu.se
^******Jean-Michel Roberge is a forester with a strong interest for forest ecology and biodiversity conservation. He graduated in 2001 from Université Laval, Canada, with a BSc in forest management and environment. He is currently completing PhD studies in ecology at the Department of Conservation Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, working on the use of specialised birds' requirements as a tool for forest conservation planning. His address: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden. jean-michel@nvb.slu.se
^*******Wolter Arnberg, PhD, Program coordinator. His address: Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden arnberg@natgeo.su.se
^********Jan Olsson is PhD and Associate professor in political science at Örebro University. His research focus is on policy and implementation in complex settings, such as multi-level governance and private-public cooperation. Olsson also has an interest in issues on democracy and democratic renewal, especially in relation to the policy process. His address: Department of Social Sciences, Novemus, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden. jan.olsson@sam.oru.se