About the Author

Jean-Yves Meyer is a plant ecologist and conservation biologist. He has been working on the terrestrial biodiversity of French Polynesia for the past twenty years as a senior research scientist at the Délégation à la Recherche de la Polynésie française (French Polynesian Department of Research) based in Tahiti. He was responsible for organizing the multidisciplinary expeditions to the Austral Islands (2002-4).