Rainer Bussmann, Ph.D.
Head and William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany
Wm. L. Brown Center
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

Office phone: +1-314-577-9503
Fax: +1-314-577-0800
Email: rainer.bussmann@mobot.org

Ph.D. Bayreuth University 1994
M.Sc. Tübingen University 1993

 

 


 

General Research Interests

  • Ethnobotany / Ethnopharmacology

  • Medicinal plants, neglected crops, wild crop relatives and traditional crop varieties

  • Seed and Germination Ecology

  • Natural Resource Management

  • International law in relation to Intellectual Property Rights, Ecology and Environment

  • Plant Ecology and Regeneration Ecology

Research Emphases

  • Ethnobotany and Use-potential of Medicinal Plants and Neglected Crops in Peru

  • Medicinal Plant Use in India and Nepal

  • Turkmen Ethnobotany and Resource Use in Northern Iran

  • International Ethnobotany Database (ebDB) (http://www.olorien.org/ebDB)

  • Vegetation, Regeneration and Succession Processes, Use-Potential and Conservation of Tropical Mountain Forests in Peru

  • Montane Forest Ecosystems in Kenya - Diversity and Potential for Use

  • Vegetation, Regeneration and Succession Processes on Tropical Landslides

Selected Publications

  • Richter, M. & Bussmann, R.W. (in press). Timberline features and structures within the subpáramo vegetation belt of Southern Ecuador. Ecological Studies 198:123-136.
  • Bussmann, R.W., Wilcke, W. & Richter, M. (in press). The importance of landslides for the dynamics of the vegetation and the maintenance of the high biodiversity in Southern Ecuador. Ecological Studies 198:319-330.
  • Bussmann, R.W. & Sharon, D. (2007). Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru. Plantas de los cuatro vientos - La flora mágica y medicinal del Perú. Trujillo, Graficart.
  • Bussmann, R.W. & Sharon, D. (2007). Plants of longevity - The medicinal flora of Vilcabamba. Plantas de longevidad - La flora medicinal de Vilcabamba. Trujillo, Graficart.
  • Bussmann, R.W., Sharon, D., Vandebroek, I., Jones, A. & Revene, Z. (2007). Health for sale: The medicinal plant markets in Trujillo and Chiclayo, Northern Peru. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3:37. [link]
  • Lozano, P., Bussmann, R.W. & Kueppers, M. (2007). Regeneración pionera en derrumbos producidas por perturbaciones antropogénicas junto a carreteras, en la zona de amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Podocarpus, Ecuador. - Anthropogenic disturbances producing landslides; pioneer plant regeneration analysis in roads at the buffer zone of Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador. Mutisia.
  • Lozano, P., Bussmann, R.W. & Kueppers, M. (2007). Diversidad Florística del Bosque Montano y su Influencia en la Flora Pionera en Deslizamientos Naturales en el Occidente del Parque Nacional Podocarpus al Sur del Ecuador. Revista Científica UDO Agrícola 7(1).
  • Verma, A., Kumar, M. & Bussmann, R.W. (2007). Medicinal plants in an urban environment: The medicinal flora of Banares Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 3:35. [link]
  • Lozano, P., Bussmann, R.W. & Kueppers, M. (2007). Influencia de los bosques montanos como regeneradores de áreas antropicas perturbadas - The role of montane forests as source for the regeneration of anthropogenically disturbed areas. Arnaldoa 14(1).
  • Njoroge, G.N. & Bussmann, R.W. (2007). Ethnotherapeutic management of skin diseases among the Kikuyus of Central Kenya. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 111:303-307.
  • Bussmann, R.W., Sharon, D., Lopez, A. (2007). Blending Traditional and Western Medicine: Medicinal plant use amongst patients at Clinica Anticona in El Porvenir, Peru. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 5: 185-199. [link]
  • Njoroge, G.N. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Traditional management of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) diseases in Central Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:54. [link]
  • Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Manteniendo el balance de naturaleza y hombre: La diversidad florística andina y su importancia por la diversidad cultural – ejemplos del Norte de Perú y Sur de Ecuador. Arnaldoa 13(2):382-397. [link]
  • Sharon, D. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Avances de la etnobotánica en Trujillo, Peru: El programa MHIRT. Arnaldoa 13(2):398-406. [link]
  • Bussmann, R.W. & Sharon, D. (2006). Traditional plant use in Northern Peru: Tracking two thousand years of health culture. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:47. [link]
  • Skoczen, S. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). ebDB - an International Ethnobotany Database. Lyonia 11(2):71-81. [link]
  • Bussmann, R.W. & Sharon, D. (2006). Traditional plant use in Southern Ecuador. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:44. [link]
  • Njoroge, G.N. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Ethnoveterinary practices in Central Kenya: Plants and their uses in managing diseases of livestock. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 108:332-339.
  • Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Ethnobotany of the Samburu of Mt. Nyiru, South Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:35. [link]
  • Kunwar, R.M., Nepal, B.K., Kshetri, H.B., Rai, S.K. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Ethnomedicine in Himalaya: a case study from Dolpa, Humla, Jumla and Mustang districts of Nepal. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:27. [link]
  • Bussmann, R.W., Gilbreath, G.G., Lutura, M., Lutuluo, R., Kunguru, K., Wood, N. & Mathenge, S. (2006). Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:22. [link]
  • Njoroge, G.N. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Phytotherapeutic management of malaria in the central highlands of Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:8. [link]
  • Kunwar, R.M. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Ficus (Fig) species in Nepal: a review of diversity and indigenous uses. Lyonia 11(1):85-97. [link]
  • Sharon, D. & Bussmann, R.W. (2006). Plantas Medicinales en la Obra del Obispo Don Baltasar Jaime Martinez Compagnon (Siglo XVIII). In: Millones, L. & Kato, T. (Eds.). Desde el exterior: El peru y sus estudios. Tercer Congreso Internacional de Peruanistas, Nagoya, 2005. UNMSM:147-165.

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