van der Burgt, Xander
Job Title
Botanist
Department
Herbarium
Section
Regional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
2006Foreign Language(s):
Dutch, German, French, SpanishQualifications & Appointments
MSc study Forestry, Wageningen University, 1988-1994
Herbarium WAG, Wageningen University, 1997-1999 & 2001
Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland, 1999-2000 & 2002-2005.
Role
Botanical inventories for conservation management in Cameroon.
Botanist and ecologist with 15 year's experience with the flora of Central Africa, of which 5 years in the field. Responsible for the curation/naming of herbarium collections.
Projects
- Congo (Brazzaville): Surveys and Capacity Building
- Ebo Forest Conservation Checklist
- Exploring Legume Associations with Fungi and Threat
- Gilbertiodendron ogoouense complex - a revision
- Guinea (Conakry): Developing botanical capacity, a National Herbarium and Red Data book
- The Plants of Mefou Proposed National Park, Yaoundé, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist
- Orientale DRC: surveys and capacity building
- Sierra Leone: Surveys and Capacity Building
- Systematics and Conservation of the Tropical African Genus Hymenostegia (Detarieae: Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae)
- Systematics of the Tropical African Genus Berlinia (Detarieae: Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae)
(project completed 2011)
Selected Recent Publications
Burgt, X.M. van der, Haba, P.K., Haba, P.M., Goman, A.S., (in press). Eriosema triformum (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) a new unifoliolate species from Guinea, West Africa. Kew Bull.
Burgt, X.M. van der, Eyakwe, M., Motoh, J. (in press). Gilbertiodendron newberyi (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae), a new tree species from Korup National Park, Cameroon. Kew Bull.
Burgt, X.M. van der (2010). Two new taxa in Magnistipula (Chrysobalanaceae) from Korup National Park, Cameroon. Pl. Ecol. Evol. 143 (2): 191-198.
Mackinder, B.A.,Wieringa, J.J., Burgt, X.M. van der (2010). A revision of the genus Talbotiella Baker.f. (Caesalpinioideae: Leguminosae).
Burgt, X.M. van der, Maesen, L.J.G. van der, Onana, J.-M. (eds.) (2010). Systematics and Conservation of African Plants. Systématique et Conservation des Plantes Africaines. Proceedings of the 18th AETFAT Congress, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Comptes Rendus du 18ème Congrès de l’AETFAT, Yaoundé, Cameroun. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Selected Earlier Publications
Burgt, X.M. van der, Newbery, D.M. (2006). Gluema korupensis (Sapotaceae), a new tree species from Korup National Park, Cameroon. Kew Bull. 61 (1).
Newbery, D.M., Burgt, X.M. van der, Moravie, M.-A. (2004). Structure and inferred dynamics of a large grove of Microberlinia bisulcata A.Chev. trees in Korup National Park, Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 131-143.
- Maesen, L.J.G. van der; X.M. van der Burgt; J.M. van Medenbach-de Rooy (1996). The biodiversity of African plants. Proceedings XIVth AETFAT. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 880 pp.
- Burgt, X.M. van der (1997). Explosive seed dispersal of the rainforest tree Tetraberlinia moreliana (Leg. - Caes.) in Gabon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13: 145-151.
- Burgt, X.M. van der (1997). Determination of the age of Pinus occidentalis in La Celestina, Dominican Republic by the use of growth rings. IAWA Journal 18 (2): 139-146.
