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Juliette Pasveer. Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
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Kai M. Philipp. Zoologische Staatssammlung, Sektion Herpetology, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 Munich, Germany
Sinikka Piippo. Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 7, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
John J. Pipoly III. University of Florida—Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences/Broward County Extension, 3245 College Avenue, Davie, FL 33314-7719, USA
Dan A. Polhemus. Department of Entomology, MRC 105, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA
Michael Prentice. Indiana Geological Survey, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 611 N. Walnut Grove, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Pratito Puradyatmika. Environmental Department, P.T. Freeport Indonesia, Mimika, Papua, Indonesia
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Susanne S. Renner. Institute of Systematic Botany, Ludwig Maximilian University, Menzinger Str. 67, D-80638 Munich, Germany
Stephen Richards. Vertebrate Department, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, S.A. 5000, Australia
André Schuiteman. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9514, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
Garry A. Shea. P.T. Hatfindo Prima, Bogor, Indonesia.
Harrie Sipman. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Freien Universität, Königin-Luise-Str. 6–8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
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Burhan Tjaturadi. Conservation International—Papua Program, Jl. Bhayangkara I No. 5, Jayapura, Papua Province, Indonesia
Peter C. van Welzen. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Willem Vink. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
George D. Weiblen. Department of Plant Biology and Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 250 Biological Science, 1445 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Fred E. Wells. Western Australian Museum, Perth 6000, Western Australia. Currently at Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, Level 3, The Atrium, 168 St. Georges Terrace, Perth 6000, Western Australia
Tony Whitten. Senior Biodiversity Specialist, Environment and Social Development Sector, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20433, USA, and Conservation Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
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Acknowledgments
THE DEVELOPMENT of The Ecology of Papua has a long and complex history. The genesis of the Ecology of Indonesia series dates from 1981, when the Sumatra volume was written under the Government of Indonesia/United Nations Development Program Project INS/78/056 entitled Education and Training in Environment and Resources, executed by the World Bank with a subcontract to Dalhousie University. This was followed by a project entitled Environmental Management and Development in Indonesia (EMDI), financed by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). This effort led to the concept of a national series, including a volume on Papua. Unfortunately, the original plan to prepare the Papua (then Irian Jaya) volume in the early 1990s faced a variety of problems, and it was never completed.
Over the long gestation period of this work, during which time the other seven volumes were completed (and two volumes already revised), there have been a series of editors for the Papua volume. Because of a number of insurmountable hurdles, the book project never really moved ahead until 2004, at which point BP (British Petroleum), through its Tangguh Project initiative, agreed to provide a grant to support the book in its latest incarnation as an edited volume. We here recognize BP’s Tangguh partners and their support of the project through BP: KG Berau Petroleum Ltd., Nippon Oil Exploration (Berau) Ltd., MI Berau BV, BP Berau Ltd., BP Wiriagar Ltd., BP Muturi Holding BV, KG Wiriagar Petroleum Ltd., CNOOC Wiriagar Overseas Ltd., Indonesia Natural Gas Resources Muturi, Inc., and CNOOC Muturi Ltd. The BP grant, as well as a grant from CI to Harvard University, permitted the contracting of AJM to serve as managing editor for the project (2004–2006). We thank Karla Boreri Dutton, Lidia Ahmad, Jalal, Erwin Maryoto, and the entire BP Tangguh Project Environmental Team for being instrumental in fostering this partnership with BP.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, through its generous funding of CI’s Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation, provided the impetus for completing this demanding project. We are deeply grateful for its support.
With this support from the Moore Foundation and BP, the work began in earnest, resulting in written contributions from eighty-six authors, and with additional technical assistance from Conservation International–Indonesia, especially Dr. Yance de Fretes, a long-term student of the biodiversity of Papua.
We thank Tony Whitten for his genius in pulling together the concept for this important book series. We thank also Kathy MacKinnon, who also was central to the series. We thank Ron Petocz for all the background bibliographic research he conducted on Papua, which today remains a remarkable achievement. The advisory team for the book, which included Whitten, as well as Gerald Allen, Allen Allison, Chris Ballard, BMB, Jim Cannon, Yance de Fretes, Geoff Hope, Robert Johns, J. R. Mansoben, Scott Miller, Dan Polhemus, and Wayne Takeuchi, provided invaluable thinking on the composition and vision for the work. As a group we decided to make it an expert-chapters book rather than a synthesis. We hope readers approve of this choice.
We are greatly indebted to the nearly ninety text contributors, without whose voluntary writing efforts we would have no book. When the final deadline came, every author did submit the required piece, and many of them are superlative contributions to science. Bravo to them! We also thank those who contributed photographs. We especially thank Gerald Allen, J. Burke Burnett, Michael P. Moore, and Stephen J. Richards, who provided a large share of the color photographs.
We offer thanks to the staff of Conservation International in Jakarta and Jayapura who helped us in a variety of ways with this immense project. Thanks to Dr. Jatna Supriatna, CI–Indonesia’s Regional Director, for his leadership on this initiative. We also especially note the assistance of Budi Iraningrum with respect to her work on literature research for the project, Hendi Sumantri
