Clubbe, Colin P.
Job TitleHead, UKOTs and Conservation Training
DepartmentConservation, Living Collections and Estates
SectionConservation and Conventions
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1995
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, University of Birmingham, 1975
PhD, University of London, 1980
DIC, Imperial College, 1981
Honorary Research Fellow, Imperial College, London
Fellow of the Linnean Society
Vice Chair, IUCN/SSC South Atlantic Islands Plant Specialist Group
Trustee, Falklands Conservation
Patron, Coral Cay Conservation
Role
Conservation assessment, inventory and monitoring of island communities; capacity-building for conservation; conservation policy, role of botanic gardens in conservation.
Conservation biology with particular reference to islands – inventory and monitoring of plant communities; effects of management on communities, recovery and restoration; conservation assessment and recovery planning for threatened plant species. Impacts of invasive alien species. Development of botanic gardens, with particular reference to their conservation and education roles and the development of materials to help build capacity for conservation. Development of conservation policy and strategy; implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).
Projects
- Biodiversity Advice to Government
- CBD Capacity Building
- Darwin Initiative Assessment of the Coastal Biodiversity of Anegada, British Virgin Islands - Project completed (2003-06)
- Darwin Initiative Research Exercise on Community Tree Seeds (DIRECTS) in Africa
(project completed 2006) - Developing Ex Situ Conservation Collections of UK Overseas Territories Plant Species In-Territory and at Kew
- In Ivan's Wake: a Darwin Initiative Biodiversity Action Plan for the Cayman Islands - Project completed (2005-08)
- Kew Latin American Research Fellowships
- Madagascar Threatened Plants Project - COMPLETED
- Integrating National Parks, Education and Community Development for the British Virgin Islands - Project completed (2000-03)
- Plant Diversity Challenge: the Official UK Response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
- Molecular Population Genetics of Four Closely Related Alcantarea Species (Bromeliaceae) Adapted to 'Inselbergs' in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil - COMPLETED 2008
- In Vitro Methods for the Conservation of Endemic Species
- UKOTs Online Herbarium
- Seed Conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
- Conservation of Ascension Island’s Endemic Plants - Project completed (2008-2010)
- Falkland Islands Native Plants Project
- Invasive Species in the UK Overseas Territories
- Enabling the People of Montserrat to Conserve the Centre Hills - Project completed (2006-09)
- Increasing Local Capacity to Conserve St Helena's Threatened Native Biodiversity
- Supporting Critical Species Recovery and Horticultural Needs on St Helena - Project completed (2008-10)
- Falkland Islands Plant Conservation - Project completed (2007-2009)
- Establishment of Montserrat Botanic Garden
- Strengthening capacity for Species Action Planning in Montserrat
- Turks and Caicos Islands Pine Recovery Programme
Selected Recent Publications
Clubbe, C. & Hamilton, M., & Corcoran, M. (2010). Using the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation to Guide Conservation Implementation in the UK Overseas Territories. Kew Bulletin 65: 509-517.
Clubbe, C. & Hamilton, M., & Corcoran, M. (2010). Salvia caymanensis (Lamiaceae). Plant in Peril, 36. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 27(4), 365-375
Clubbe, C., Hamilton, M., and Corcoran, M. (2009). Rondeletia buxifolia, Rubiaceae. Plant in Peril 32. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 26(1&2): 131-141.
Maunder, M., Leiva, A., Santiago-Valetin, E., Stevenson, D., Acevedo-Rodriguez, P., Meerow, A., Mejia, M., Clubbe, C. & Francisco-Ortega, J. (2008). Plant Conservation in the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot. The Botanical Review 74, 197-207
Hamilton, M.A., Clubbe, C., Robbins, S.K. & Barrios, S. (2008). Plants and habitats of the Centre Hills, Montserrat. In: Young, R.P. (ed.), A Biodiversity Assessment of the Centre Hills, Montserrat. Durrell Conservation Monographs, Vol. 1, pp 40-55.
Selected Earlier Publications
Britt, A., Clubbe, C. & Ranarivelo, T. (2004). Conserving Madagascar’s Plant Diversity: Kew’s Madagascar Threatened Plants Project. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 21(4): 258-266.
Clubbe, C. (2005). Building capacity and developing botanical infrastructure for conservation: a case study from the British Virgin Islands. BGJournal 2(1): 10-12.
Clubbe, C., Gillman, M., Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Walker, R. (2004). Abundance, distribution and conservation significance of regionally endemic plant species on Anegada, British Virgin Islands. Oryx 38(3): 342-346.
Talhouk S.N., Dardas, M., Dagher, M., Clubbe, C., Jury, S., Zurayk, R. & Maunder, M. (2004). Patterns of floristic diversity in semi natural coastal vegetation of Lebanon and implications for conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 14(4), 903-915.
Zahreddine, H., Clubbe, C., Baalbaki, R., Ghalayini, A. & Talhouk, S.N. (2004). Status of native species in threatened Mediterranean habitats: The case of Pancratium maritimum L. (sea daffodil) in Lebanon. Biological Conservation 120(1): 11-18.
