Moore, Alison
Job TitleAssistant Botanist
DepartmentHerbarium, Library, Art and Archives
SectionRegional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 2004
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons) Applied Biology, Univ. Hertfordshire, 1997
MSc, Advanced Methods in Taxonomy and Biodiversity, Imperial College, 2003
Role
Curation of SE Asia and Pacific herbarium collections; Tropical botanical identification; Urticaceae systematic research.
Curation and maintenance of herbarium collections of the South-East Asia and Pacific Team; dealing with enquiries and visitors to the section; assisting in the identification of new material and developing general plant identification skills. Databasing and imaging of specimens as required.
Teaching assistance given on the Tropical Botany Course run annually at Kew and periodically in SE Asia. Systematic research into Poikilospermum (Urticaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia. Regular fieldwork in various countries (e.g. Vietnam, Borneo, Sumatra).
Projects
- Biodiversity inventory and monitoring to conserve critically threatened lowland forest in Sumatra
- Assessing and conserving plant diversity in commercially managed tropical rainforests in Sabah - COMPLETED 2010.
- Taxonomic research on ecologically important plant families in Southeast Asia
- Tropical Plant Families: An Identification Handbook
Selected Recent Publications
Shortall, C.R.; Moore, A.; Smith, E.; Hall, M.J.; Woiwod, I.P.; Harrington, R. (2009) Long-term changes in the abundance of flying insects Insect Conservation and Diversity 2(4) 251-260
