People
Ulian, Tiziana
| Job Title | Useful Plants Project Co-ordinator |
|---|---|
| Department | Seed Conservation |
| Section | Collecting |
| Science Teams |
Drylands: Tropical America Millennium Seed Bank Project |
| Joined Kew | 2004 |
| Foreign Language(s) | Italian (mother tongue), Spanish (fluent), French (working). |
Qualifications & Appointments
Diploma, Environmental Sciences, Univ. Ca ' Foscari, Venice, Italy, 1997
BSc, Environmental Sciences (Plant Ecology), Univ. Greenwich, 1999
PhD, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), Univ. Greenwich, 2004.
Role
Plant ecology , conservation and sustainable use
Latin American Programme Officer for the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) since 2004, subsequently Coordinator of the Useful Plant Project in Botswana, Kenya, Mali, Mexico and South Africa from 2007. Present responsibilities include coordinating species targeting, seed collecting, plant propagation activities involving indigenous and rural communities, and supporting research in plant conservation and sustainable use. Past and present experiences include ethnobotanical and ecological surveys, population assessment and monitoring of threatened species, as well as seed collecting and training support in several countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa. My background is in plant population ecology and conservation biology with an interest in the ecology of introductions and restoration ecology.
Projects
Project MGU - the Useful Plants Projects
Ex situ Conservation of Plant Germplasm from Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Mexico
Ex Situ Conservation of Threatened Chilean Flora Through Propagation
Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Use of Southern Peruvian Dry Forest
Theme: Climate and Reproductive Biology
Theme: Ecophysiology and Morphology
Selected Publications
Ulian, T., Smith, M.C. & Aranguren, A. (2001). Life history traits of Oritrophium peruvianum in the páramos of the Cordillera of Mérida, Venezuela. Proceedings of IV International Symposium of Sustainable Development in the Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.
Ulian, T. (2004). The demography of Oritrophium peruvianum (Lam.) Cuatr. and the impacts of harvesting on its populations in the Venezuelan Andes. PhD Thesis, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK.
Bacchetta, G., Fenu, G., Mattana, E., Ulian, T. (2007). Preliminary results on the conservation of Lamyropsis microcephala (Moris) Dittrich & Greuter (Compositae), a threatened endemic species of the Gennargentu massif, Sardinia. Flora Montiberica 36: 6-14.
Rossi, G., Parolo, G., Ulian, T. (2008). Human trampling as threat factor for the conservation of peripheral plant populations. Plant Biosystems 142. Accepted.