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Jan Salick

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Botany

#691

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#1788

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Jan Salick's Degrees

PhD Botany University of California, Berkeley
Masters Botany University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Jan Salick is an American botanist who researches the interaction between humans and plants and conservation biology. Her specialisms include alpine environmentss, climate change, indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge. She is a past-president of the Society for Economic Botany and holds their Distinguished Economic Botanist award. She is also Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received the Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration. In 2019 she retired as Senior Curator of Ethnobotany at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and now has emerita status.

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Jan Salick's Published Works

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Local perspectives on a global phenomenon—Climate change in Eastern Tibetan villages (2009) (368)
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change (2007) (221)
Eastern Himalayan alpine plant ecology, Tibetan ethnobotany, and climate change. (2009) (142)
Indigenous diversity of Cassava: Generation, maintenance, use and loss among the Amuesha, Peruvian upper Amazon (2008) (139)
Tibetan sacred sites conserve old growth trees and cover in the eastern Himalayas (2007) (137)
Traditional Peoples and Climate Change (2009) (136)
Human-induced dwarfing of Himalayan snow lotus, Saussurea laniceps (Asteraceae). (2005) (134)
Conserving the Sacred Medicine Mountains: A Vegetation Analysis of Tibetan Sacred Sites in Northwest Yunnan (2005) (106)
Herbarium specimens show contrasting phenological responses to Himalayan climate (2014) (103)
Non-timber forest products integrated with natural forest management, Rio San Juan, Nicaragua (1995) (82)
Termitaria: Nutrient Patchiness in Nutrient-Deficient Rain Forests (1983) (70)
Genetic variation in walnuts (Juglans regia and J. sigillata; Juglandaceae): Species distinctions, human impacts, and the conservation of agrobiodiversity in Yunnan, China. (2010) (68)
Secondary Succession and Indigenous Management in Semideciduous Forest Fallows of the Amazon Basin 1 (2006) (66)
Tibetan medicine plurality (2006) (51)
Evolutionary biogeography of Manihot (Euphorbiaceae), a rapidly radiating Neotropical genus restricted to dry environments (2011) (50)
Applied Ethnobotany. People, Wild Plant Use & Conservation (2003) (50)
Himalayan Alpine Vegetation, Climate Change and Mitigation (2014) (49)
Tibetan land use and change near khawa karpo, Eastern Himalayas (2005) (49)
Whence useful plants? A direct relationship between biodiversity and useful plants among the Dusun of Mt. Kinabalu (1999) (48)
Yanesha agriculture in the upper Peruvian Amazon: Persistence and change fifteen years down the ’road’ (2003) (38)
Toward an Integration of Evolutionary Ecology and Economic Botany: Personal Perspectives on Plant/People Interactions (1995) (36)
Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity (2006) (34)
The effects of pollen limitation on population dynamics of snow lotus (Saussurea medusa and S. laniceps, Asteraceae): Threatened Tibetan medicinal plants of the eastern Himalayas (2010) (32)
Rapid changes in eastern Himalayan alpine flora with climate change. (2019) (29)
Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages (2010) (28)
Contemporary Tibetan Cosmology of Climate Change (2013) (26)
Comparing Conservation Priorities for Useful Plants Among Botanists and Tibetan Doctors (2007) (24)
Crop domestication and the evolutionary ecology of cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal) (1992) (24)
Amuesha forest use and management: an integration of indigenous use and natural forest management. (1992) (21)
Traditional management of agrobiodiversity. (1999) (20)
Adapting in the Shadow of Annapurna: A Climate Tipping Point (2015) (19)
An analysis of termite faunae in Malayan rainforests. (1984) (18)
Variation and change in Amuesha agriculture, Peruvian Upper Amazon. (1990) (17)
Fast and Cheap in the Fall: Phylogenetic determinants of late flowering phenologies in Himalayan Rhododendron. (2016) (16)
The interplay of hybridization and clonal reproduction in the evolution of willows – Experiments with hybrids of S. eriocephala[R] & S. exigua[X] and S. eriocephala & S. petiolaris[P]. (1999) (15)
Subsistence and the single woman among the amuesha of the upper Amazon, Peru (1992) (13)
Vulnerability of phenological progressions over season and elevation to climate change: Rhododendrons of Mt. Yulong (2018) (10)
Biodiversity in Agriculture: Indigenous Peoples Conserving, Managing, and Creating Biodiversity (2012) (9)
Dynamic Ecological Knowledge Systems Amid Changing Place and Climate: Mt. Yulong Rhododendrons (2017) (6)
Khawa Karpo: Tibetan Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation (2012) (5)
Indigenous Knowledge and Dynamics Among Himalayan Peoples, Vegetation, and Climate Change (2020) (3)
Natural history of crop-related wild species: Uses in pest habitat management (1983) (3)
Ethnoecology of Fire: An Experimental Approach in the Ohio Valley (2000) (2)
Teaching Ethnobotany Through Field Research: A Case Study Integrating Conservation with Tibetan Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2014) (1)
Tibetan Medicine Plurality1 (2006) (1)
Back to the roots (2004) (1)
Justin Nolan: Wild Harvest in the Heartland: Ethnobotany in Missouri’s Little Dixie (2009) (0)
12. Collect or Cultivate—A Conundrum Comparative Population Ecology of Ipecac ( Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson), a Neotropical Understory Herb (2006) (0)
Naxi Cosmology of Mt Yulong Sacred Sites with Caveats for Conservation (2022) (0)
ARTICLE Evolutionary biogeography of Manihot (Euphorbiaceae), a rapidly radiating Neotropical genus restricted to dry (2011) (0)
Site selection in Pará : comparisons of Marabá, Paragominas and Santarém (1993) (0)
Society for economic botany (2008) (0)
Pristine Neotropics: The Way It Ought to Be (but Isn't) (1991) (0)
Past collections offer clues to the future of Himalayan rhododendrons (2013) (0)
Book reviews (2008) (0)
An Informative Introduction (1998) (0)
Distribution of vascular plants in a subalpine-nival gradient of Central Himalaya: current patterns and predictions for future warming climate (2015) (0)
Evolutionary Biology (1992) (0)
OF M ANIHOT ( E UPHORBIACEAE ) , A RAPIDLY RADIATING N EOTROPICAL GENUS RESTRICTED TO DRY ENVIRONMENTS (2020) (0)
Distinguished Economic Botanist Award (2014) (0)

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