Pearce, Timothy
Job TitleInternational Project Coordinator
DepartmentSeed Conservation
SectionCollecting
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1999
Foreign Language(s): Kiswahili (conversational)
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Univ. Aberdeen, 1982
MSc, Univ. Aberdeen 1986
Role
Developing collaborative partnerships for the MSBP
Studies in the taxonomy and conservation of the East African Flora. A particular interest in the taxonomy of the genus Kalanchoe, with a published online database of names and specimen data for the group as it appears in East Africa. 12 years' experience in the development of the BRAHMS database for the management of taxonomic and herbarium collection data.
Projects
- Conservation of the Eastern Africa Afromontane Flora
- Eastern African Virtual Herbarium
- Enhancing human livelihoods and the conservation and restoration of Mozambique’s biodiversity
- Monocot Checklist-Project Completed
- MSB Programme in Australia
- A Seed Conservation Partnership between Tanzanian Seed Conservation Organisations and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project
- Seeds for Life
- Project MGU - the Useful Plants Project
Selected Recent Publications
Grace*, O.M.;Malombe, I.;Davis*, S.D.;Pearce*, T.R.;Simmonds*, M.S.J.(2010).Identifying priority species in dryland Kenya for conservation in the Millennium Seed Bank Project. In Van de Burgh, X.;Van der Maesen, J.;Onana, J.-M. (eds) Systematics and conservation of African plants.. London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 749-758.
Selected Earlier Publications
- Pearce, T.R., Filer, D. & van den Berghe, E. (1994). Computerisation of the East African Herbarium: the development of a regional plant information service. In van der Maesen L.J.G., van der Burgt, X.M. & van Medenbach de Rooy, J.M. (eds). The Biodiversity of African Plants. 18-31.
- Pearce, T.R. & Bytebier, B. (2000). The Role of a Herbarium and a Herbarium Database in Supporting Plant Conservation. In Hankamer, C., Maunder, M., Clubbe, C. & Groves, M. (eds). Plant Conservation for the Tropics. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.
Balcha, G., Pearce, T.R. & Demissie, A. (2003). Biological diversity and current ex situ conservation practices in Ethiopia. In Smith, R.D., Dickie, J.B., Linington, S.H., Pritchard, H.W. & Probert, R.J. (eds). Seed Conservation: Turning Science into Practice. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
