People

Pearce, Timothy

Job Title International Project Coordinator
Department Seed Conservation
Section Collecting
Science Teams Drylands: Africa
Millennium Seed Bank Project
Joined Kew 1999
Foreign Language(s) Kiswahili (conversational)

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons), Univ. Aberdeen, 1982

MSc, Univ. Aberdeen 1986

Role

Developing collaborative partnerships for the MSBP

Studies in the taxonomy and conservation of the East African Flora. A particular interest in the taxonomy of the genus Kalanchoe, with a published online database of names and specimen data for the group as it appears in East Africa. 12 years’ experience in the development of the BRAHMS database for the management of taxonomic and herbarium collection data.

Projects

African Wild Harvest

Monocot Checklist

Western Everlasting: A Seed Conservation Collaboration between the WA Dept of Conservation & Land Management, Kings Park & Botanic Gardens, Greening Australia (WA) and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

SACRED Seeds: A Seed Conservation Partnership between the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

SEEDS FOR LIFE: a Seed Partnership between Kenya Seed Conservation Agencies and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

A Seed Conservation Partnership between Tanzanian Seed Conservation Organisations and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

Seeds for Life (Qld): a Seed Conservation Partnership between the QSEED Consortium and the RBG Kew Millennium Seed Bank Project

SeedQuest New South Wales: An International Partnership for Plant Conservation

The Victorian Conservation Seedbank

World Checklist of Malpighiales

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Balcha, G., Pearce, T.R. & Demissie, A. (2003). Biological diversity and current ex situ conservation practices in Ethiopia. In Smith, R.D., Dickie, J.B., Linington, S.H., Pritchard, H.W. & Probert, R.J. (eds). Seed Conservation: Turning Science into Practice. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Selected Publications pre-2001

Pearce, T.R., Filer, D. & van den Berghe, E. (1994). Computerisation of the East African Herbarium: the development of a regional plant information service. In van der Maesen L.J.G., van der Burgt, X.M. & van Medenbach de Rooy, J.M. (eds). The Biodiversity of African Plants. 18-31.

Pearce, T.R. & Bytebier, B. (2000). The Role of a Herbarium and a Herbarium Database in Supporting Plant Conservation. In Hankamer, C., Maunder, M., Clubbe, C. & Groves, M. (eds). Plant Conservation for the Tropics. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.