Cable, Stuart
Job TitleHead of Madagascar and MSBP Herbarium Team Manager
Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives
SectionRegional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 2003
Foreign Language(s): French
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Tropical Environmental Science
MSc, Machine-perception and neuro-computing
Role
Madagascar
Leadership of Kew’s science and conservation programme in Madagascar, helping Kew deliver the Breathing Planet Programme (BPP) and supporting Madagascar with its commitments under the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and the Millennium Development Goals. Institutional management of the Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre (KMCC), developing its team of botanists and facilities, which include vehicles, computers, satellite communications and accommodation for visiting researchers. Coordinating a portfolio of projects in collaboration with local partners that make a significant contribution to research and conservation in Madagascar and ensure that Kew’s science has maximum impact at all levels from government decision-makers to local communities.
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership Herbarium Team
Management of the MSBP Herbarium Team, helping the MSBP deliver BPP Target 5 and contribute to restoration and sustainable utilisation programmes. The main objectives of the team during the current MSBP programme is to ensure the accurate identification of the seed collections (target: 15% of the world’s flora collected during 2010-2020) and effective data management across the MSBP network based on the use of up to date taxonomic names.
Projects
- Madagascar Aloe Conservation Project
- Diversity and Conservation of Madagascar Palms
- Enhancing human livelihoods and the conservation and restoration of Mozambique’s biodiversity
- Ex-situ conservation of Madagascar's endangered orchids
- Field Guides: published and planned
- Grasses of Madagascar
- Itremo Massif Protected Area Project
- Madagascar Orchid Conservation Project
- Madagascar Agroforestry Livelihoods Project
- Madagascar GIS
- Madagascar Threatened Plants Project - COMPLETED
- Monocot Checklist-Project Completed
- MSB Programme in Australia
- Millennium Seed Bank Project in Jordan
- Millennium Seed Bank Project in Lebanon
- MSB Seed Banking Worldwide
- MSB partnership in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali)
- Millennium Seed Bank Project in Namibia
(project completed 2010) - Millennium Seed Bank Project in South Africa
- Seeds of Success USA: Native Plant Materials for Conservation and Restoration
- MSB Enhancement Project Part 1A: Species Targeting (Project completed 2008)
- Phylogenetic Diversity of the Malagasy Legumes: New Insights for the Conservation of the Malagasy Flora
- Rubiaceae of Madagascar
- Southern Madagascar Littoral Forest Tree Guide
- Seed Conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
- Invasive Species in the UK Overseas Territories
- Survey of Introduced Vascular Plants in South Georgia
- Yams of Madagascar: systematics, conservation and sustainable use
Selected Recent Publications
Cable, S. (2010). New directions and challenges for the conservation of the flora of Madagascar. In: Bramwell, D. & Caujapé-Castells, J. (eds), The Biology of Island Floras. Cambridge University Press, UK.
Rabehevitra, D., Randriatafika, F., Rabenantoandro, J., Channeliere, S. & Cable, S. (2011). Guide de terrain des arbres de la forêt littorale du Sud Est de Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
