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Collaboration Beyond PALMS - WP 5

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PALM COMMUNITY ECOLOGY IN THE COLOMBIAN CHOCÓ

In collaboration with the Colombian Instituto de Investigaciones del Pacífico (IIAP), a MSc student developed his thesis on palm communities in Central Chocó.

MSC student: Giovanny Ramírez

Supervisors: Gloria Galeano

Results:

Ramírez, G. 2010. Estudio florístico del Recurso Palma en la región del Chocó.  MSC Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. .  

Ramírez, G. & G. Galeano. 2011. Comunidades de palmas en dos bosques de Chocó, Colombia. Caldasia 33(2): 315-329.

 

FIELD GUIDES TO THE PALM FLORAS OF AMAZONIAN RESEARCH CENTERS

Collaboration with the Grupo de Ecología de Ecosistemas Terrestres Tropicales-Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Amazonía, and the Corporación para el desarrollo Sostenible del Sur de la Amazonía- Corpoamazonia, resulted in the following publications:

Galeano, G., Peñuela-Mora, M.C. & L. A. Nuñez. 2013. Guía de las palmas de la Estación Biológica El Zafire, Amazonas, Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia. Impresos Panamericana, Bogotá.

Navarro, J. A., G.Galeano Y M. C. Peñuela-M. 2010. Palmas del CEA. 321-390 p. En: Peñuela-M., M. C. y E. M. Jiménez. Plantas del Centro experimental Amazónico –CEA-Mocoa, Putumayo. Corporación para el desarrollo Sostenible del Sur de la Amazonía- Corpoamazonia, Grupo de Ecología de Ecosistemas Terrestres Tropicales-Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Amazonía. Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia.

 

NATIONAL COLLECTION OF COLOMBIAN PALMS

Collaboration with the Quindío Botanic Garden in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia, has resulted in the development of the National Collection of Colombian Palms, which now has 70 % of all Colombian palm species represented as living plants. The following publications have been derived from that collaboration

Bernal, R. & G. Galeano. 2010. Notes on Mauritiella, Manicaria, and Leopoldinia. Palms 54 (3): 119-132.

Bernal, R. & H.F. Manrique. 2012. The enigmatic and critically endangered Ceroxylon sasaimae, rediscovered in the wild. Palms 56: 31-35.

 

MARINE INCURSIONS IN AMAZONIA

As a byproduct of one of PALMS field trips, a large scale project studying Miocene marine incursions in Amazonia is being developed by Rodrigo Bernal in collaboration with the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg (Dr. Alex Antonelli), the Paleoecology and Landscape Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam (Dr. Carina Hoorn), the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (Dr. Carlos Jaramillo), the Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis, Leiden (Dr. Frank P. Wesselingh), and the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia (Dr. Christine Bacon).

 

COLLABORATION WITH WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS

Dr. Pieter Zuidema, of the Forest Ecology and Forest Management group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, collaborated with WP5 in the analysis of demographic data and as a result he visited the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where he taught a cours on Integrated Projection Models for the study of plant populations.