Piperaceae (Flora Mesoamericana, 2) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gerrit Davidse, now retired as curator emeritus, has worked as a curator and research scientist at the Missouri Botanical Garden since 1972. During that time his research interests have focused on the grass family Poaceae, especially those of tropical America. Along with Mario Sousa, Instituto de Biología, Mexico City, and Arthur Chater, Natural History Museum, London, he was a founding member of the Flora Mesoamerica in 1980. In addition, he contributed various taxonomic treatments and worked as a coeditor of this project. Although his field work has focused primarily on the American tropics, he has also participated in exploratory expeditions in South America, Africa, and Sri Lanka.

Carmen Ulloa Ulloa joined the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1993 and is a senior curator with the Missouri Botanical Garden. She obtained her Licenciado degree from the Catholic University in Quito, Ecuador and her PhD from Aarhus University in Denmark. She currently serves as vice president of Ecuador Academy of Sciences and as co-chair of the IUCN Ecuador Plant Specialist Group. She is a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon. Her research focuses on plants from the Andes mountains. She joined the Flora Mesoamericana project in 2009 as editor and currently project coordinator.