Rico Arce, María de Lourdes [Lulú]
Job Title
Legume Specialist
Department
Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives
Section
Systematics
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
1991Foreign Language(s):
Spanish (mother tongue), Portuguese, FrenchQualifications & Appointments
BSc, UNAM, Mexico, 1980
PhD, Univ. Southampton, 1989.
Hon. Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Birmingham Univ.
Assistant Editor, Mexican Floras and Annales Jardin Botanico, Madrid (Spain), Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad and Flora of Guerrero (Mexico).
Role
Systematics of neotropical Mimosoideae, especially tribes Ingeae and Acacieae.
Researcher and lecturer with 35 years’ experience in Neotropical Leguminosae-Mimosoideae. Specialist in large pantropical genera of tribes Acacieae and Ingeae. Broad multidisciplinary collaboration with Latin American countries: lecturing, cladistics, writing floras and checklists and organising programmes for data repatriation. Capacity-building through training programmes on systematics and conservation for postgraduate students in UK and Mexico.
Projects
Selected Recent Publications
Moore, G., Smith, G.F.; Figueiredo, E., Demissew, S., Lewis, G., Schrire, B., Rico, L. van Wyk, A.E., Luckow, M., Kiesling, R. & Sousa S. M. (2011). The Acacia controversy resulting from minority rule at the Vienna Nomenclature Section: Much more than arcane arguments and complex technicalities. Taxon 60: 852-857.
Gomez-Acevedo, S., Rico-Arce, M d L., Delgado-Salinas, A., Magallon, S. & Eguiarte, L.E. (2010). Neotropical mutualism between Acacia and Pseudomyrmex: Phylogeny and divergence times. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 393-408.
Rico Arce, M. de L. (2008). Mimosaceae. Nuevo Catálogo de las plantas Vasculares de Venezuela, 2008. In Hokche, O., Berry, P.E., Huber, O. eds. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela Dr. Tobias Lasser, Cáracas, Venezuela, pp 491-503.
Rico Arce, M. de L., Gale, S.L. & Maxted, N. (2008). A taxonomic study of Albizia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: Ingeae) in Mexico and Central America. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 65 (2): 255-305.
Rico Arce, M. de L., Moreno, E. & Rodríguez, A. (2008). Las colecciones de Leguminosas efectuadas por George B. Hinton, depositadas en el Herbario de Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Acta Botanica Mexicana 84: 73-92 .2008.
Téllez, O. & Rico-Arce, M d L., (2008). Leguminosas (Dicotiledóneas), in S. Ocegueda y J. Llorente-Bousquets (Eds.) Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México, in Capital natural de México, vol. I: Conocimiento actual de la biodiversidad. CONABIO. México, Electronic version, CD1.
Atahuachi, M.B. & Rico Arce, M. de L. (2007). A new species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Minosoideae) endemic to Bolivia. Kew Bulletin 62 (4): 605-608.
Rico Arce, M. de L. (2007). Acacia, Acaciella, Cojoba. In Familia Leguminosae, Subfamilia Mimosoideae. Flora del Bajío y de Regiones Adyacentes 150: 8-50, 50-68, 85-89.
Rico Arce, M. de L. (2007). A checklist and synopsis of American species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Conabio, Mexico 207p., [7]p. col. plates : ill. (some col.).
Selected Earlier Publications
Rico Arce, M. de L. & Bachman, S. (2006). A taxonomic revision of Acaciella (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae). Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 63: 189-244.
Lewis, G.P. & Rico Arce M de L. (2005). Tribe Ingeae. In Lewis, G., B. Schrire, B. Mackinder & M. Lock. Legumes of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 193-213.
Rico Arce, M. de L. & Fonseca, R.M. (2005). ACACIEAE (MIMOSACEAE). Flora de Guerrero No. 25. 1-56. Coordinación de Servicios Editoriales. Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM. México.
Rosales, J., Maxted, M., Rico-Arce, M. de L. & Petts, G. (2003). Ecohydrological and ecohydrographical methodology applied to conservation of riparian vegetation: the Caura River as an example. In: Chernoff, B., A. Machado-Allison, K. J. Riseng, and J. R. Montambault (eds.). A Biological Assessment of the aquatic Ecosystems of the Caura River Basin, Bolivar State, Venezuela. Bulletin of Biological Assessment No. 28: 75-85 & 172-183 (Spanish). Washington, D.C. Conservation International
