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News from MO 2005 news from MO 2005 research and conservation projects at the Missouri Botanical Garden MBG Plant Science Overview . .3 Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development (CCSD) . .4 MBG resources . .8 plant science regional and in-country programs . .22 plant systematics . .44 William L. Brown Center for Plant Genetic Resources (WLBC) . .51 directory of affiliated personnel . .60 MBG plant science overview The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is at the forefront of the El Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) está a la vanguardia en la urgent struggle to discover, understand, and conserve the urgente lucha por el descubrimiento, entendimiento y world's botanical diversity as species and habitats rapidly conservación de la diversidad botánica del mundo en donde las diminish. Through carefully designed programs of botanical especies y sus hábitats van disminuyendo aceleradamente. A investigation and conservation, MBG is contributing to solving través de los programas de investigación botánica y the biodiversity crisis. conservación cuidadosamente diseñados, el MBG está contribuyendo a la solución de la crisis de la biodiversidad. The Missouri Botanical Garden’s work concentrates in biodiversity rich areas of the world, where MBG has established El trabajo del Missouri Botanical Garden se concentra en las fully collaborative research and conservation programs focusing áreas del mundo ricas en biodiversidad, en donde el MBG ha on botanical exploration, analysis of plant diversity patterns, establecido programas de investigación y conservación training in botany and conservation, and sustainable totalmente cooperativos y enfocados hacia la exploración development. MBG places particular importance on building botánica, el análisis de modelos de diversidad de plantas, el capacity for the study of plants and for conservation and actively entrenamiento en la botánica y conservación, y el desarrollo promotes networking to support scientific research and sustentable. El MBG da importancia particular a la capacitación y conservation worldwide. The significant contribution made by al mejoramiento institucional, necesarios para el estudio y la MBG in scientific research and conservation is complemented by conservación de las plantas y promueve activamente la gestión comprehensive programs of formal and informal training, which de redes de apoyo para la investigación científica y conservación Research editor: Alina Freire-Fierro are empowering the next generation of biologists, mundiales. La significativa contribución que el MBG realiza en la Image editor: Leslie Miller conservationists, and concerned citizens as they protect their investigación científica y en la conservación se complementa Conservation writer: Gail Milder own biodiversity resources. MBG’s support to institution building con los comprensivos programas de entrenamiento formal e Copy editor: Elizabeth McNulty provides needed help to conduct research and conservation in informal, los cuales están invistiendo en la próxima generación Designer: Justin Visnesky at-risk areas. de biólogos, conservacionistas, y ciudadanos interesados Copyright © 2005 Missouri Botanical Garden quienes igualmente protegen a sus propios recursos de la Through its TROPICOS Information System, its herbarium, and biodiversidad. El apoyo del MBG al mejoramiento institucional its publications, MBG continues to provide and expand access to provee la ayuda tan requerida para la conducción de its accumulated knowledge on plants and their ecosystems. investigación y conservación en las áreas en peligro. MBG maintains a research and conservation staff of over 140, including 46 Ph.D. scientists engaged in botanical systematic A través de su Sistema Informático TROPICOS, su herbario y mission of News from MO research, floristic exploration, and conservation assessment. sus publicaciones, el MBG continúa proporcionando y Twenty percent of these scientists are stationed overseas; the permitiendo el acceso a su conocimiento acumulado de las Since 1982, News from MO has been published yearly by the Division of Research of the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG). This publication is designed to share information about the others travel extensively to tropical countries to increase plantas y sus ecosistemas. El MBG cuenta con más de 140 projects that researchers from MBG, in collaboration with researchers from around the world, have knowledge of plants and of the world’s ecosystems. personas que trabajan en investigación y en conservación, been working on recently. News from MO is distributed mainly to herbaria and other institutions incluyendo a 46 científicos Ph.D. comprometidos en la engaged in botanical research and conservation. Given its scientific strength, its extensive collaboration network, investigación botánica sistemática, en la exploración florística y and the plant specimen resources amassed over many years, en la evaluación conservacionista. Un veinte por ciento de estos MBG also focuses on analysis of the TROPICOS data and on científicos reside en el exterior; y el resto viaja extensivamente a marshaling efforts to assess and implement science-based los países tropicales con el objetivo de incrementar el conservation strategies. Only through an approach to conocimiento de las plantas y de los ecosistemas del mundo. conservation grounded in sound, scientific knowledge, together with the active participation of local institutions and trained local Dada su fortaleza científica, su extensa red de colaboración, y scientists, can we achieve protection of the fragile environment sus especímenes de plantas acumulados durante muchos años, that supports us all. el MBG también se enfoca en el análisis de los datos de TROPICOS y en reunir esfuerzos para evaluar y llevar a cabo estrategias de conservación basadas en datos científicos. Sólo a través de una aproximación a la conservación basada en el conocimiento científico firme, junto con la activa participación de instituciones locales y de científicos locales entrenados, lograremos proteger al ambiente frágil que nos sostiene a todos. Robert Magill Director of Research, Missouri Botanical Garden News from MO 2005: overview 3 Center for Conservation TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING In tropical countries MBG has for several years conducted tiered and Sustainable Development training programs in botany and conservation designed to strengthen the ability of local people to manage their natural resources for their own benefit and, at the same time, to (CCSD) enhance opportunities for employment and community development. These programs take place within the context of MBG’s ongoing botanical research, linking exploration to ANALYSIS UNIT training. The goal is to raise the level of university programs in biology, provide formal professional development, and increase The year 2004 marked a period of notable achievement for CCSD, in collaboration with the Research Division and the the number of individuals qualified to assist with field research the Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development International Center for Tropical Ecology at the University of and herbarium work. In recent years, CCSD in collaboration with (CCSD), a Division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. We Missouri-St. Louis (ICTE), has established an Analysis Unit, the Research Division has expanded these training programs. have clearly articulated CCSD’s mission and are working which uses biological data to answer questions that elucidate key robustly toward the five goals designed to safeguard Earth’s issues in conservation biology. Using modern analytic tools, the Training in Latin America: This multi-tiered program is biodiversity through the collaborative development and wise Analysis Unit is modeling the geographic distribution of different designed to attract students to conservation biology and botany application of scientific expertise and resources: species and identifying regions that contain high plant diversity, early in their university careers. During 2004 CCSD conducted particularly regions that sustain high numbers of plant species introductory short field courses, a two-month field-based course with narrow geographic distributions. For sample projects of for more advanced undergraduates from several countries, • To analyze and interpret scientific data as a basis for CCSD’s Analysis Unit, see MBG GIS Lab (page 19). mentored fellowships for the undergraduate thesis, and short- conservation decision-making term fellowships at MBG for a total of 64 students from Bolivia, To spur the formulation of testable hypotheses to guide their (FIG 1) CCSD’s Analysis Unit is using plant collection data and Ecuador, and Peru. • To build the capacity for conservation in tropical countries data analyses, CCSD scientists have developed questions such climatic remote-sensed data to evaluate the use of ecological by training local people in conservation science as the following: niche modeling. The map above depicts under-represented areas in relation to climatic gradients for Ecuador. Areas in the • To develop community programs aimed at sound local lightest shade represent parts of the climatic gradient where management of natural resources • Identifying areas of high plant diversity: Spatial patterns of plant collection intensity was less than 75% of the collections • To build partnerships with public and private sector richness are central to identifying priority areas for expected of equal sampling along gradients. Areas in organizations and agencies to foster conservation conservation. Yet descriptions
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