Zappi, Daniela
Job TitleSenior Plant Taxonomist (currently on sabbatical from RBG, Kew until 2014)
DepartmentHerbarium, Library, Art & Archives
SectionRegional Teams
Science Teams:
Joined Kew: 1992
Foreign Language(s): Portuguese, Spanish (mother tongues), Italian.
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, Ciências Biológicas, Univ. São Paulo, 1987.
MSc, Ciências Biológicas, Univ. São Paulo, 1989.
PhD, Univ. São Paulo, 1992.
Visiting Professor, Univ. Estadual Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.
Editorial Board, Boletim de Botânica da Universidade de São Paulo; Revista Rodriguésia.
Coordinator of Cactaceae and Co-coordinator of Rubiaceae for the Brazilian Catalogue of Plants and Fungi.
IUCN Cactus & Succulent Specialist Study Group.
Role
Daniela has developed strategies and methodologies and published information to promote conservation by using taxonomic information at different levels in the Neotropics, focussing on the Brazilian flora, the Rubiaceae and Cactaceae.
She is engaged in augmenting Kew’s plant and image collections through intensive fieldwork, and in continuing to promote their usability and accessibility. Daniela has been devising and supporting projects aiming to develop taxonomic products for use in conservation, especially in the areas of GIS, vegetation survey and species and habitat assessments.
One of Daniela's main foci is in the floristics and conservation of Brazil, contributing towards accelerated surveys, floras and checklists. She is working to generate and enhance data from Kew contributing to the Brazilian Catalogue of Plants and Fungi (http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/), Plantas da Mata Atlântica and more recent Brazilian red-listing activities (http://cncflora.net/intranet/).
Daniela's main research interests are in the taxonomy, systematics and conservation of Neotropical Rubiaceae, Cactaceae and Loganiaceae with a regional focus on Brazil, in collaboration with institutes in Brazil, Argentina and the USA. Her taxonomic research covers monographs, regional revisions and checklists; systematic research covers generic delimitation and molecular systematics. Her main study groups include Rudgea, Faramea, and Mitracarpus (Rubiaceae) and Rhipsalis, Pilosocereus and Haageocereus (Cactaceae).
Daniela is committed to training and supervision within Kew and in Latin America. She has a long-standing research interest in Cactaceae, and acts as scientific advisor to CITES and IUCN for cacti.
Projects
- Australian Virtual Herbarium
(project completed 2006) - Cacti of Brazil
- Community botany in the Amazon
- Neotropikey
- Kew Latin American Research Fellowships
- Major Latin American Floras
- Margaret Mee Fellowship Programme
- Plant Diversity and Conservation in Bolivia
- Repatriation of Herbarium Data for Northeastern Brazil (Project completed 2009)
- Richard Spruce Collection
- Rubiaceae of Brazil
- Tropical Plant Families: An Identification Handbook
- Vegetation Management for Conservation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
- World Checklist and Bibliography of Rubiaceae
- Taxonomy of the genus Passiflora
- Toucan Cipó
- Lista do Brasil
Selected Recent Publications
Forzza, R. C., Baumgratz, F. A., Bicudo, C. E. M., Canhos, D. A. L., Carvalho, Jr, A. A., Costa, A., Costa, D. P., Hopkins, M., Leitman, P. M., Lohmann, L. G., Nic Lughadha, E., Maia, L. C., Martinelli, G., Menezes, M., Morim, M. P., Nadruz Coelho, M. A., Peixoto, A. L., Pirani, J. R., Prado, J., Queiroz, L. P., Souza, S., Souza, V. C., Stehmann, J. R., Sylvestre, L. S., Walter, B. M. T., & Zappi, D. (2010). Síntese da Diversidade Brasileira. In: R. C. Forzza et al. (eds). vol. 1: 21 – 42. Catálogo de Plantas e Fungos do Brasil. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
Zappi, D. C., Sasaki, D., Milliken, W., Piva, J., Henicka, G. S., Biggs, N. & Frisby, S. (2011). Plantas vasculares da região do Parque Estadual Cristalino, norte de Mato Grosso, Brasil. Acta Amazonica 41(1): 29 – 38.
Menini Neto, L., Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. C. (2009). Angiosperm epiphytes as conservation indicators in forest fragments: A case study from southeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil. Biodiv. & Conservation 18: 3785 – 3807.
Milliken, W., Zappi, D. C., Sasaki, D., Hopkins, M. & Pennington, R. T. (2011). Amazon vegetation: how much don’t we know and how much does it matter? Kew Bull. 65(4): 691 – 709.
Calderón, N., Zappi, D., Taylor, N., Ceroni, A. (2007). Taxonomy and conservation of Haageocereus Backeb. (Cactaceae) in Peru. Bradleya 25: 45 – 124.
Zappi, D. C. (2007). Alibertia, Genipa and Rudgea in Rubiaceae da Flora de São Paulo. vol. 5: 264 – 268; 344 – 345; 419 – 429. In: Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo. Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo.
Zappi, D. C., Aona, L. Y .S., Taylor, N. P. (2007). Cactaceae da Flora de São Paulo In: Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo. vol. 5: 163 – 193. Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo.
Selected Earlier Publications
Taylor, N.P. & Zappi, D.C. (2004). Cacti of Eastern Brazil. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Machado, M.C., Zappi, D.C., Taylor, N.P. & Borba, E.L. (2005). Taxonomy and conservation of the Discocactus Pfeiff. (Cactaceae) species ocurring in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Bradleya 23: 41–56.
Zappi, D.; Lucas, E., Stannard, B., Nic Lughadha, E., Pirani, J.R., Queiroz, L.P., Atkins, S., Hind, D.J.N., Giulietti, A.M., Harley, R., & Carvalho, A.M. (2003). Lista das plantas vasculares de Catolés, Chapada Diamantina, Brasil. Bol. Bot. Univ. São Paulo 21(2): 345 – 398.
Zappi, D. C. (2003). Revision of Rudgea (Rubiaceae) in Southeastern and Southern Brazil. Kew Bull. 58(3): 513 – 596.
Zappi, D. C. & Nunes, T. S. (2002). Listagem preliminar das Rubiaceae no Nordeste do Brasil/Preliminary Checklist of Rubiaceae in Northeastern Brazil. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
