People
Moat, Justin F.
| Job Title | Head of GIS Unit |
|---|---|
| Department | Herbarium |
| Section | Regional Teams |
| Science Teams |
Wet Tropics: Africa Rubiaceae Myrtaceae Drylands: Africa Madagascar UK Overseas Territories |
| Joined Kew | 1996 |
| Foreign Language(s) |
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, Univ. College London, 1992
MSc, Univ. College London, 1996.
Role
Develop and manage the GIS unit, projects and related research, especially webmapping, vegetation mapping and conservation assessments.
Developing and managing the GIS Unit and GIS at RBG Kew: presenting data and producing tools for conservation and environmental monitoring. Providing a GIS interface for conservation, taxonomy, systematics and phytogeography. Special interests are in: Vegetation mapping and area conservation assessments (Kew Key Measure 2d), using remote sensing and GIS techniques to give up-to-date and accurate vegetation mapping and vegetation change (temporally). See Madagascar Vegetation Mapping Project(http://www.kew.org/giswww/website/mad/madveg) and Mount Oku and Ijim Ridge (Cameroon)(http://www.kew.org/gis/projects/oku_cameroon/index.html); Conservation assessments using herbarium specimens and GIS techniques to quickly produce quantifiable, preliminary conservation assessments (based on IUCN Red List Categories), for use in taxon treatments and area assessments; Webmapping by using the internet as much GIS functionality has moved to users desktops allowing simple GIS to be performed and complex maps to be presented. See Madagascar Vegetation Mapping Project (http://www.kew.org/giswww/website/mad/madveg); Madagascar, where a lot of data and expertise resides and has been used to pilot GIS and remote sensing work on this region.
Projects
Assessment and Management of Red List and Endemic Plant Species, Namibia
Baseline Data for the Conservation of Coffee Species (Rubiaceae)
Biogeography and Conservation of Myrciinae (Myrtaceae)
CEPF Madagascar Vegetation Mapping
Conservation Checklist of the Trees of Uganda
Diversity of Neotropical Meliaceae
Enabling the People of Montserrat to Conserve the Centre Hills
Field Guides: Published and Planned
Guinea-Conakry: Developing a National Herbarium and Survey of the Simandou Range
Liberia GIS: National Plant Conservation Prioritisation
Mefou Proposed National Park, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist
MSB Enhancement Project Part 1A – Species Targeting
Phylogenetics and Conservation of Madagascan Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae)
Thai Cyperaceae: Distribution and Conservation
The Sampled Red List Index for Plants
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Bachman, S., Baker, W.J., Brummitt, N., Dransfield, J. & Moat, J. (2004). Elevational gradients, area and tropical island diversity: an example from the palms of New Guinea. Ecography 27: 299–310.
Du Puy, D. J., Labat, J.N., Rabevohitra, R., Villiers, R., Bosser, J.-F. & Moat, J. (2002). The Leguminosae of Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Moat, J. & Smith, P. (2003). Applications of geolographic systems in seed conservation. In Smith, R.D., Dickie, J.B. Linington, S.L. Pritchard H.W. & Probert, R.J. (eds). Seed conservation: turning science into practice. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 79–87.
Nic Lughadha, E., Baillie, J., Barthlott, W., Brummitt, N.A., Cheek, M.R., Farjon, A., Govaerts, R., Hardwick, K.A., Hilton-Taylor, C., Meagher, T.R., Moat, J., Mutke, J., Paton, A.J., Pleasants, L.J., Savolainen, V., Schatz, G.E., Smith, P.P., Turner, I., Wyse- Jackson, P. & Crane, P.R. (2005). Measuring the fate of plant diversity: towards a foundation for future monitoring and opportunities for urgent action. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 360 (1454): 359-372.
Willis, F., Moat, J. & Paton, A. (2003). Defining a role for herbarium data in Red List assessments: a case study of Plectranthus from eastern and southern tropical. Biodiversity and Conservation 12 (7): 1537–1552.
Selected Publications pre-2001
DuPuy, D., & Moat, J.(1996). A refined classification of the primary vegetation of Madagascar Based on the underlying geology: using GIS to map it distribution and to assess its conservation status. In Lourenco, W. R. (ed). Proceedings of the international Symposium on Biogeography of Madagascar. Editions de l'Orstrom, Paris. 205 – 218, 203
Du Puy, D.J & Moat, J. (1997). Using GIS for vegetation mapping and conservation planning in Madagascar. In Plant Talk (Plant Conservation Worldwide), (Issue 11 - October 1997). The Botanical Information Company Ltd, UK. 24
DuPuy, D. & Moat, J.(1998). Vegetation mapping and classification in Madagascar (using GIS): implications and recommendations for the conservation of biodiversity. In Huxley, C. R., Lock, J. M. & Cutler, D. F. (eds). Chorology, Taxonomy & Ecology of the Floras of Africa and Madagascar: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 97–117
DuPuy, D. & Moat, J. (1999). Vegetation mapping and biodiversity conservation in Madagascar — Geographical Information Systems. In Timberlake, J.& Kativu, S. (eds). African Plants: Biodiversity Taxonomy and Uses. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 245–251.
Gower, J., Moat, J.& Morley, J. (2000). A virtual tour of the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In Hall, P. (ed). GISRUK 2000:. York University, UK. 148–151.