Christopher Andrews,^* Jan Dick,^** Christer Jonasson,^*** Terry Callaghan<sup>****


*</sup>Christopher Andrews () is an ecologist for the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently involved in the United Kingdom Environmental Change Network long-term monitoring project in the Scottish Highlands. His research interests include effects of climate change on biodiversity. Address: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik EH26 0QB, UK. e-mail: chan@ceh.ac.uk
^**Jan Dick is a landscape ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh. She is site manager of a long-term ecological monitoring site in the Cairngorms, Scotland (www.ecn.ac.uk) and her research interests include tool development and hypothesis testing in relation to place based ecosystem service assessment with particular focus on the link with biodiversity and climate change. Address: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik EH26 0QB, UK
^***Christer Jonasson has a PhD in Physical Geography from Uppsala University and is an Associate professor at Stockholm University. He is Station Manager for the Abisko Scientific Research Station. Address: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4 A, 114 18 Stockholm, Sweden.
^****Terry Callaghan has a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, honorary PhDs from the Universities of Lund, Sweden, and Oulu, Finland, and a DSc from the University of Manchester, UK. He is a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Distinguished Research Professor and Member and also Professor of Arctic Ecology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Address: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4 A, 114 18 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.