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M.S., Michigan Technological University, 1978
B.S., Michigan Technological University, 1975
B.A., University of Iowa, 1969
General Research Interests
Floristics and phytogeography of eastern Africa
Plant conservation assessment in eastern Africa and in Africa generally
Classification and identification of East African flowering plant genera
Taxonomy and systematics of African Sapindaceae
Research Emphases
Supervision of Tanzania Botanical Research and Conservation Programme
Supervision of "Plant Conservation
Assessment in the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and
Kenya".
Supervision of plant component of "Conserving Ecosystem Diversity and
Livelihoods: Climate Change, Plant Biodiversity and Protected Areas in East Africa"
Collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society in "Identifying the
Conservation Status of the Plants of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania"
Completion of checklists for Lake Nyasa Climatic Region and Gombe National
Park (Tanzania)
Selected Publications
Hall, J., N. Burgess, J. Lovett, B. Mbilinyi & R.E. Gereau. 2009.
Conservation implications of deforestation across an elevational gradient in the
Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Biol. Cons. 142: 2510-2521.
Lovett, J.C., C.K. Ruffo, R.E. Gereau & J. D. Taplin. 2006. Field Guide
to the Moist Forest Trees of Tanzania. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund,
Centre for Ecology, Law, & Policy & Frontier-Tanzania.
Couvreur, T.L.P., R.E. Gereau, J.J. Wiersema & J.E. Richardson 2006.
Description of four new species of Monodora and Isolona (Annonaceae)
from Tanzania and an overview of Tanzanian Annonaceae diversity. Adansonia,
sér. 3, 28: 243-266.
R.E. Gereau, C.M. Taylor & W.R.Q. Luke. 2006. Endemic plant species of
the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania: analysis and refinement of
distributional patterns. Pp. 267-277 in: S. A. Ghazanfar & H. J.
Beentje (eds.), Taxonomy and Ecology of African Plants, their Conservation
and Sustainable Use. Proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Gereau, R.E. & S. Bodine. 2005. Crotalaria mwangulangoi (Fabaceae,
Faboideae), a new species from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Novon 15:
286-289.
Lantz, H. & R.E. Gereau. 2005. A new species of Rytigynia
(Rubiaceae, Vanguerieae) from northeastern Tanzania, with notes on the
circumscription of the genus. Novon 15: 315-318.
Taylor, C.M., R.E. Gereau & G.M. Walters. 2005. Revision of Ancistrocladus
Wall. (Ancistrocladaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 92: 360-399.
Kenfack, D., G. Gosline, R. E. Gereau & G. E. Schatz. 2003. The genus
Uvariopsis (Annonaceae) in tropical Africa, with a recombination and one
new species from Cameroon. Novon 13: 443-449.
Gereau, R. E. & G. M. Walters. 2003. Chamaecrista mwangokae
(Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae), a new species from the Southern Highlands of
Tanzania. Novon 13: 438-442.
Goldblatt, P., J. C. Manning & R. E. Gereau. 2002. Nomenclatural
Clarifications in Aristea Sect. Racemosae (Iridaceae) in the Cape
Flora of South Africa. Novon 12: 190-195.
Gereau, R. E. 2001. New names in African Celastraceae and Rutaceae. Novon
11: 43-44.
Gereau, R. E. 2001. Aizoaceae, Aloaceae, Basellaceae, Bataceae, Chenopodiaceae,
Liliaceae, Molluginaceae, Portulacaceae. In: W. D. Stevens, C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool
& O. M. Montiel (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot.
Gard. 85: 48-49, 56, 395-397, 603-604, 1219-1228, 1507-1508, 2180-2183.
Gereau, R. E. & D. Kenfack. 2000. Le genre Uvariopsis (Annonaceae)
en Afrique tropicale, avec une espèce nouvelle du Cameroun. Adansonia,
sér. 3, 22: 39-43.
Gereau, R. E. 1999. Agavaceae, Alliaceae, Anthericaceae, Asparagaceae,
Asphodelaceae, Asteliaceae, Dracaenaceae, Melanthiaceae, Phormiaceae. In:
P. M. Jørgensen & S. Léon-Yánez (eds.), Catalogue of the Vascular
Plants of Ecuador, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 200, 202,
216-217, 260, 440, 561, 784.
Schatz, G. E., P. P. Lowry II & R. E. Gereau. 1999. A revision of the
Malagasy endemic genus Chouxia Capuron (Sapindaceae). Adansonia, sér.
3, 21: 51-62.
Gereau, R. E. 1998. A new combination in Tarenna (Rubiaceae) from
Central Africa. Novon 8: 140. 1998.
Gereau, R. E. & P. Vorster. 1998. Encephalartos ituriensis
(Zamiaceae): an emended description. Adansonia, sér. 3: 20: 211-216.
Gereau, R. E. 1997. Typification of names in Ancistrocladus Wall.
(Ancistrocladaceae). Novon 7: 242-245.
Lovett, J. C., R. E. Gereau & K. J. Sidwell. 1994. Vegetation and
phytogeography of the Kitulo Plateau, southern Tanzania. Pp. 1025-1041 in:
J. H. Seyani & A. C. Chikuni (eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth Plenary
Meeting of AETFAT, Zomba, Malawi, 2-11 April 1991. National Herbarium and Botanic
Gardens of Malawi, Zomba.
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