Nicola Arndt und Matthias Pohl - Neobiota

Acknowledgments
We express our gratitude to Dr. Udo Bohn and the Bundesamt für Naturschutz for the immense
work they have accomplished for creating the Map of the Natural Vegetation of Europe and for
giving an opportunity to present the preliminary analyses.
We are thankful to Dr. Hartmut Jungius (WWF International), Mr. V. Krever (WWF Russia), D.
Petelin (Moscow State University) and Mrs. L. Williams (Independent Environmental Expert),
with whom we have worked on the analysis for the Caucasus Ecoregion’s biodiversity conservation
and sustainable use and preparation of priority investment portfolio, financed by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (KREVER et al. 2001); some of the materials from the above
works have been applied in this article.
Also, thanks to Giorgi Beruchashvili, GIS specialist from WWF Caucasus, for assistance.
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