Description
 
We are a group of twenty seven environmental scientists who have been pursuing separate research lines focused on the understanding of biodiversity and the processes that determine its functions and sustainability.

In CASEB we work in association with postdocs, and doctoral students in the pursuit of our shared interests. As a Center, we deal with hierarchies ranging from molecular to biogeographic perspectives, with scientific methodologies spanning observational, comparative, experimental, and simulation approaches, with the aim of generating basic and applied research anchored in Chilean biodiversity, of marine and terrestrial plants and animals. We address Chile's biodiversity from a functional perspective through seven linked Research Programs, identified by their title, PI and Associate researchers, as listed below:

PROGRAM 1
· "The individual basis of biodiversity: patterns, processes and mechanisms in time and space." PI: Dr. Francisco Bozinovic (web page). Associates: Dr. Sergio Castro (shared with Program 2), Dr. Luis Ebensperger (web page), Dr. Ernesto Gianoli (web page), Dr. Fernanda Perez (web page) (shared with Program 3) and Dr. Pablo Sabat (web page).

PROGRAM 2
· "Biodiversity function and functioning of animal assemblages: the population and community approach." PI: Dr. Mauricio Lima (web page). Associates: Dr. Matias Arim, Dr. Sergio Castro (shared with Program 1), Dr. Fabian Jaksic (web page), Dr. Patricio Ojeda (web page), Dr. Alvaro Palma (web page) and Dr. Eduardo Palma (web page) (shared with Program 4) .

PROGRAM 3
· "Integrating the functions of biodiversity from genes to ecosystems: experimental and modeling approaches in Chilean semiarid and temperate ecosystems." PI: Dr. Juan Armesto (web page). Associates: Dr. Francisca Diaz (web page), Dr. Jose Miguel Farina (web page) (shared with Program 4), Dr. Fernanda Perez (web page) (shared with Program 1) and Dr. Cecilia Smith (web page).

PROGRAM 4
· "Conservation and biocomplexity." PI: Dr. Pablo Marquet (web page). Associates: Dr. Jose Miguel Farina (web page) (shared with Program 3) Dr. Sylvain Faugeron (shared with Programs 6 and 7) (web page), Dr. Claudio Latorre (web page) and Dr. Eduardo Palma (shared with Program 2) (web page)

PROGRAM 5
· "Marine populations: larval supply, recruitment, and the effect of climatic factors."
Discontinued.

PROGRAM 6
· "Maintenance of diversity, benthic-pelagic coupling, and human dimensions of coastal ecosystems." PI: Dr. Sergio Navarrete (web page) Associates: Dr. Bernardo Broitman (web page), Dr. Juan Carlos Castilla (web page), Dr. Sylvain Faugeron (shared with Programs 4 and 7) (web page), Dr. Miriam Fernandez (web page) and Dr. Stefan Gelcich (web page) (shared with Program 7).

PROGRAM 7
· "Changes in biodiversity, structure and function of coastal marine communities associated with anthropogenic disruptions." PI: Dr. Juan Correa (web page). Associate: Dr. Sylvain Faugeron (shared with Programs 4 and 6) (web page), Dr. Stefan Gelcich (web page) (shared with Program 6), Dr. Bernardo Gonzalez (web page) and Dr. Bernabe Santelices (web page)

The Director and Deputy Director of the Center, together with five CASEB Principal Investigators make up the Technical Council. This is presided over by the Director and exerts supervision and takes responsibility for the development and performance of the six Research Programs that constitute the Center. An International Advisory Board, made up of three foreign eminent scientists, advices the Technical Council through its Director on matters pertaining to the international recognition of CASEB, the establishment of ties with similar centers, and the pursuit of international initiatives.