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General Scientific
interests
- Ethnoecology of the Batéké Plateaux, Gabon
- Floristics of Gabon
- Application of ethnobotanical and botanical information to conservation
planning and management
- Training parataxonomists, technicians, and students to study and
conserve the Central Africa flora
Research Emphases
- Ethno-ecology. Studying the effect of anthropogenic fire on plant
diversity and structure in the savannas of the Batéké
Plateaux, Gabon and Congo (University College London)
- Floristics of the Gabon National Parks (in collaboration with the
Herbier National du Gabon, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Wildlife
Conservation Society, and Wageningen University)
- Flora of Gabon: treatments of selected families
- Conservation planning: utilization of biological and social data to
develop a fire management plan for protected areas in the Batéké
Plateaux (in collaboration with Projet Protection des Gorilles, the
Wildlife Conservation Society, Patrice Christy, & the University
College of London)
Selected Publications
- Sosef, M.S.M., J.J. Wieringa, C.C.H. Jongkind, G. Achoundong, Y. Azizet
Issembe, D. Bedigian, R.G. van den Berg, F.J. Breteler, M. Cheek, J.
Degreef, R. Faden, P. Goldblatt, L.J.G. van der Maesen, L. Ngok Banak,
R. Niangadouma, T. Nzabi, B. Nziengui, Z.S. Rogers, T. Stvart, J.L.C.H.
van Valkenburg, G. Walters & J.J.F.E. de Wilde. 2006. Check-list
des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica 35.
- Stone, D., G. Walters, J-P. Ghogue. 2006. Memecylon batekeanum,
a New Species from Southeastern Gabon, and a Note on the Circumscription
of Memecylon sect. Mouririoidea (Melastomataceae) Novon 16:276-280.
- Walters, G., Bradley, A. & Niangadouma, R. 2006. Floristics of
Gabon's Batéké Plateaux: Guineo-Congolian plants on Kalahari
Sands. In: S.A. Ghazanfar & H. J. Beentje (eds), Taxonomy and ecology
of African plants, their conservation and sustainable use, pp. 259-266.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- C. Taylor, R. Gereau, & G. Walters. 2005. Revision of Ancistrocladus
Wall. (Ancistrocladaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
92:360-399.
Walters, G. 2004. Perennial plants and ephemeral seed banks in Papago
Park, Phoenix, Arizona. Natural Areas Journal 24:36-43.
- Walters, G. 2004. Native Plant Dyes: a History of Ozark Color. Wildflower
20(1): 16-19.
- Gereau, R.E. & G.M. Walters. 2003. Chamaecrista mwangokae
(Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae), a new species from the southern highlands
of Tanzania. Novon 13(4):438-442.
- Christy, C., D.Z. Damrel, A. Henry, A. Trauth-Nare, R. Puente-Martinez,
and G. Walters. 2003. Lamiaceae, part 1--Vascular Plants of Arizona.
Agastache, Hyptis, Lamium, Leonurus, Marrubium, Monarda, Monardella,
Nepeta, Salazaria, Stachys, Teucrium, and Trichostemma.
Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 35(2): 151-170.
- Walters, G. 2003. Winter ephemeral vegetation and seed banks of four
north-facing slopes in the Sonoran Desert. Madroño 50:45-52.
- Walters, G. 2002. Flora of the Papago Park Military Reservation:
a desert remnant in Phoenix, Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada
Academy of Science. 34:16-23.
- Walters, G. 2001. Noteworthy collection for Arizona: Enchylaena
tomentosa R. Br.. Madroño. 48:61.
- Walters, G.M. & B.C. McCarthy. 1997. Forest decline and tree
mortality in a southeastern Ohio oak-hickory forest. Ohio Journal of
Science. 97:5-9.
Technical Reports
- Balinga, M., T. Sunderland, G. Walters, Y. Issembe, S. Asaha, E. Fombod.
2006. Vegetation Assessment of Waka National Park, Gabon. Report for
the Smithsonian Institution and CARPE.
- Harris, D & G. Walters. 2006. Loango National Park: A Diversity
of Coastal Habitats: A preliminary Report. Internal report to Loango
National Park, Gabon.
- Kenfack, D., G. Walters, M. Balinga. 2005. Approches analytiques
d’évaluation de la diversité et de la valeur en
conservation des plantes. Lope, Gabon Workshop report for the Smithsonian
Institution and USAID’s Central African Regional Program for the
Environment (CARPE)
- Walters, G., J. Miller, P. P. Lowry. 2005. The Herbario Nacional
de Guinea Ecuatorial: Current status and prospects for contributing
to conservation and natural resource management in Central Africa. Report
for Conservation International and CARPE.
- Sunderland, T.C.H., G. Walters, Y. Issembe, M. Balinga, T. Nzabi,
P. Nkeng, L. Ngok Banak, and M. Betafor. 2004. A vegetation assessment
of the Mbé National Park, Monts de Cristal, Gabon. Report for
the Smithsonian Institution and CARPE.
- Walters, G, T. Sunderland, D. Kenfack, S. Asaha , M. A. Dione. 2004.
L’Utilisation de l’approche de landscape pour l’évaluation
et la conservation de la biodiversité végétale
dans le basin du Congo. Limbe, Cameroon Workshop Report for the Smithsonian
Institution and CARPE.
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