People
Ghazanfar, Shahina A.
| Job Title | Editor, ‘Flora of Tropical East Africa’ |
|---|---|
| Department | Herbarium |
| Section | Regional Teams |
| Science Teams |
Drylands: Africa |
| Joined Kew | 2001 |
| Foreign Language(s) | Urdu |
Qualifications & Appointments
MSc, Punjab Univ., Pakistan
PhD, Univ. Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board, Systematics and Geography of Plants (Bulletin Jardin Botanic Natural Belgique)
Organizing Committee, Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS)
Arabian Plant & Medicinal Plant Specialist Groups, IUCN-SSC (1994-1997).
Role
Writing/editing and conservation assessments for ‘Flora of Tropical East Africa’; systematics, biogeography, conservation and economic importance of SW Asian flora.
Taxonomy and conservation status of the Scrophulariaceae and editing family accounts for ‘Flora of Tropical East Africa’. Writing the ‘Flora of Oman’, including conservation status and economic importance of its species. Taxonomy, conservation and uses of the arid zone and salt-tolerant flora of the Arabian Peninsula. Supervision and teaching on tropical biology field-based courses in Africa.
Projects
Publication of 2003 AETFAT Proceedings
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Ghazanfar, S.A., Keppel, G. & Khan, S. (2001). Coastal vegetation of small islands near Viti Levu and Ovalau, Fiji. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39: 587–600.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (2002). A new species of Rhus (Anacardiaceae) from the Sultanate of Oman, Arabia. Kew Bulletin 57: 491–494.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (2002). The Sabkha vegetation of Oman. In Barth, G.H. & Boer, B. (eds) Sabkha ecosystems. Volume 1, The Arabian Peninsula and adjacent countries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. 99–107.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (2003). Two new species of Limonium from Oman. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 60(1): 11–18.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, Vol. 1, Piperaceae-Primulaceae (Text + photo CD-ROM). Scripta Botanica Belgica Series 25. Belgium: National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise. 262 pp.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Ghazanfar, S.A. (1991). Flora of Nigeria: Caryophyllales. Monographs in Systematic Botany. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 34: 1–39.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (1994). Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants. Florida: CRC Press. 265 pp.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (1997). The phenology of desert plants: a 3–year study in a gravel desert wadi in northern Oman. Journal of Arid Environments 35: 407–417.
Ghazanfar, S.A. (1998). Status of the flora and plant conservation in the Sultanate of Oman. Biological Conservation 85: 275–285.
Ghazanfar, S.A. & Fisher, M. (eds) (1998). Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula. 362 pp. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.