Editors
David Tarkhnishvili
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Team leader; professor, director, Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi; Georgian State Commission for Endangered Species (chairman). Biographical data, publications etc. see at www.iliauni.edu.ge
General management of the database; Amphibians & Reptiles; occasional contribution to different animal and plant taxa.
Giorgi Chaladze
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Researcher of the Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University. Website Development/ management; Insects, beetles, ground beetles. Giorgi is also coordinating the Georgian team within the PESI project (Pan-European Species Inventories, http://www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/) and linking checklists used in this database with the Fauna Europaea portal (http://www.faunaeur.org/)
Authors
Maia Akhalkatsi
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Professor Associate of the Institute of Ecology and Institute of Botany, Ilia State University. Orchids.
Diego Rodríguez Martínez
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Biologist by University of Granada (Spain) and author of project Mycogeorgia. Along 2011 and 2012 he made a sampling of Georgian mushrooms within several Natural Protected Areas under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment Protection of Georgia.
Natia Kopaliani
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Professor of Ilia State University, Head of the Program for Ecology and Conservation of Large Mammals
George Japoshvili
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Director of Institute of Entomology, Professor of Agraricultural University of Georgia
Maka Murvanidze
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Associate Professor of Agraricultural University of Georgia
Guram Iremashvili
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Herpetologist, editor of Viperidae
Armen Seropian
Amateur entomologist, photographer. Contributor to Arthropoda
Giorgi Iankoshvili
Master Student of Ilia State University
Levan Mumladze
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Assistant Researcher of the Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University. Molluscs.
We appreciate contribution into the Database/website Development provided by the following persons: Sandro Tarkhan-Mouravi (development of the first versions of the website and website management in 2006-2010), Zezva Asanidze, Rusiko Mamradze, Ketino Odikadze (inputting information, in particular species checklists). Other contributors are listed on the pages of the Database that they have developed or edited.