Sara Bárrios
Islands Conservation Partnership Coordinator
Department
Team
UK Overseas Territories and Islands
Specialism
Conservation, Red List, Island Flora, BRAHMS
I am a member of the UK and Islands team and my main role is to support research activities and conservation projects in the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). I develop and maintain the UKOTs Species and Specimens Database. I assess the conservation status of native UKOTs species, for incorporation into the IUCN Red List and to provide evidence for in situ and ex situ conservation activities, such as establishing Tropical Important Plant Areas. I undertake fieldwork in the territories to enable knowledge gaps to be filled and provide training and support for project partners, interns and volunteers. I have a particular interest in Caribbean flora.
- MSc Plant Diversity, University of Reading, 2014-2015
- Licenciatura in Biology, University Aveiro (Portugal), 2004
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Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) in the British Virgin Islands (BVI)
Identifying key sites for plant and habitat conservation in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
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Identifying and conserving resilient habitats in the British Virgin Islands
Informing conservation of globally threatened biodiversity by identifying forest habitats resilient to natural disasters in the British Virgin Islands.
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Biodiversity metrics for conservation management in the British Virgin Islands
Generating three biodiversity metrics (phylogenetic diversity, species richness and species threat assessments) for flowering plants of the British Virgin Islands to help direct conservation action and management.
Bárrios, S., Harrigan, N., Woodfield-Pascoe, N., Grant, K., Corcoran, C., Heller, T., Newton, R., Sanchez, M., Clubbe, C. & Hamilton, M. (2017).
Conserving the threatened plants of the British Virgin Islands.
BGJournal 14: 27-29.
Paiva, J. & Bárrios, S. (2016)
Polygala kalaboensis (Polygalaceae), a new species from Zambia
Kew Bulletin 71: 10.
Bárrios, S. (2015)
Conservation genetics of Vachellia anegadensis, a British Virgin Islands endemic plant species.
MSc Thesis. Reading University.
Bárrios, S., Copeland, A. & Malcolm, P. (2015).
Peperomia septentrionalis
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T68982125A68982141
Goyder, D., Linsky, J., Bárrios, S., Hamilton, M.A., Woodfield-Pascoe, N. & Clubbe, C. (2014).
799. Metastelma anegadense.
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 31:321–332