ISOMED is an international professional society established to promote research, conservation, and public awareness of the biological diversity of the world’s Mediterranean-climate regions.

ISOMED was established in 1971 to organize a regular series of conferences on Mediterranean-climate region issues. Now known as MEDECOS conferences, the meetings are still convened on a regular basis in the five Mediterranean-climate regions.

ISOMED is a legal body headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. It is supported by an executive committee and audit board.

Objectives

1. To promote and improve communication and cooperation among investigators, educations, environmental managers, and human communities in the five Mediterranean-climate regions of the world.
2. To promote an awareness of the global significance of Mediterranean-climate regions, their biodiversity, and their conservation within the scientific community, resource managers, and the general public.
3. To promote research in all aspects of the ecology and conservation of Mediterranean-climate regions.
4. To encourage the preservation of biodiversity in Mediterranean-climate regions and to safeguard it for posterity for its intrinsic worth and its aesthetic and tangible values to humanity.
5. To promote education in the ecology and conservation of Mediterranean-climate regions.
6. To provide expert knowledge to government and non-government agencies and organizations whose administrative decisions affect Mediterranean-climate habitats and their biota.
7. To encourage the establishment, improvement, maintenance and accessibility of physical facilities, databases, and collections of biological materials for the study of Mediterranean-climate and their conservation.

International Advisory Committee

Kingsley Dixon	Australia
Grant Wardell–Johnson	Australia
Pablo Marquet	Chile
Margarita Arianoutsou	Greece
Costas A. Thanos	Greece
Vanda Acacio	Portugal
Miguel Bugalho	Portugal
Francisco Moreira	Portugal
Francisco Castro Rego	Portugal
Karen Esler	South Africa
Dave Olson	United States
Felicia Federico	United States
Phil Rundel	United States