Timothy Pearce
Conservation Partnership Coordinator
I am focussed on developing the seed conservation programmes across Kew's African partners, delivering Kew’s strategic target of securing seeds from 25% of the world’s flora by 2020.
Of the c.75,000 African plant species, we currently hold c.20,000 African seed collections representing c.11,000 taxa. I have set an ambitious 5 year target of securing collections from a further 10,000 taxa held to international seed banking standards across Kew's African partners.
As well as this seed collection effort, I am continuing to develop the MSBP Data Warehouse in order to harvest data from those non-duplicated seed collections held across the MSBP.
- BSc (Hons), Univ. Aberdeen, 1982
- MSc, Univ. Aberdeen, 1986
Griffiths, K.E., Balding, S.T., Dickie, J.D., Lewis, G.P., Pearce, T.R. & Grenyer, R. (2014).
Maximising the Phylogenetic Diversity of Seed Banks.
Conservation Biology 29:370-81.
Pearce, T.R., Kindeketa, W.J., Shadrak, S.A. & Gereau, R. (2013)
The Tanzanian National Biodiversity Information Management Tool
Online website portal. Available online
Pearce, T.R. (2012)
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership Data Warehouse
Online website portal. Available online
Grace, O.M., Malombe, I., Davis, S.D., Pearce, T.R. & Simmonds, M.S.J. (2010)
Identifying priority species in dryland Kenya for conservation in the Millennium Seed Bank Project.
In Van de Burgh, X.;Van der Maesen, J.;Onana, J.-M. (eds.), Systematics and conservation of African plants, pp. 749-758. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Pearce, T.R. & Bytebier, B. (2002)
The role of an herbarium and its database in supporting plant conservation. In: Maunder, M. et al. (ed.)
Plant conservation in the tropics. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Adapting agriculture to climate change
Collecting and protecting the wild relatives of the world’s most important food crops to safeguard our future food security in a changing climate.
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Global Tree Seed Bank Programme
Conserving some of the world’s rarest, endangered and useful tree and shrub species as well as conducting vital tree conservation research in order to retain a significant resource for humanity.
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Accelerating regeneration and providing alternative livelihoods in Madagascar’s dry forests
Understanding the effects of dry forest degradation and fires on biodiversity to inform accelerated forest restoration by local communities in Ankarafantsika National Park.