Roger L H Dennis (Author)
- Roger Dennis has spent 50 years researching into butterfly ecology, biogeography and conservation during which he has produced over 220 publications. His previous book on a 'Resource-based View for Conservation' received the British Ecological Society's Book of the Year in 2012. A Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Entomological Society, he is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the NERC's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, and an Honorary Professor at Staffordshire University and at Oxford Brookes University.

Simone Fattorini (Author)
Simone Fattorini is included in the list of the Top Italian Scientists (https://topitalianscientists.org/home). He obtained a master's degree in Biological Science (summa cum laude, 1997) and a PhD in Animal Biology (2002) from Rome University "Sapienza". He teaches Ecology and Statistical Ecology at the University of L'Aquila, where he currently supervisor of undergraduate, graduate and PhD students. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Biogeography, Diversity, Journal of Insect Biodiversity, and Biogeographia.