Researchers at MO Jan Salick, Ph.D. Curator of Ethnobotany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA Professor, Washington University, St. Louis Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis office phone: + 1-314-577-5165 fax: +1-314-577-0800 email: jan.salick@mobot.org Ph.D., Cornell University, 1983 M.S., Duke University, 1977 B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972 General Research Interests Ethnobotany Conservation Biology Tropical Ecology Agroecology Research Emphases Ecological ethnobotany: plant/people interactions Plant management, cultivation and domestication Non-timber forest products and natural forest management Genetic and population ecology of endangered useful plants Saussurea spp., Manihot spp., useful Salix spp., and Solanum domesticates Selected Publications Salick, J., A. Amend, D. Anderson, K. Hoffmeister, B. Gunn and Fang Z. D. 2006. Tibetan Sacred Sites Conserve Old Growth Trees in the Eastern Himalayas. Biodiversity and Conservation. Toledo, M. and J. Salick 2006. Secondary Succession and Indigenous Management in Semi-deciduous Forest Fallows of the Amazon Basin. Biotropica 38: 161-170. Salick, J., Yang Y. P., and A. Amend 2005. Tibetan Land Use and Change in NW Yunnan. Economic Botany 59: 312-325. Law, W. and J. Salick 2005. Human Induced Dwarfing of Himalayan Snow Lotus (Saussurea laniceps (Asteraceae)). PNAS 102: 10218-10220. Anderson, D., J. Salick, RK Moseley, Ou Xiaokun 2005. Conserving the sacred medicine mountains: a vegetation analysis of Tibetan sacred sites in Northwest Yunnan. Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 3065 - 3091. Salick, J., Yang YP, BF Gunn 2005. In Situ Capacity Building: Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Conservation and Sustainable Development. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Salick, J. 2005. To collect or to cultivate: A Conundrum. Comparative population ecology of Ipecac (Psychotria ipecacuanha), a neotropical understory herb. In M. Balick and W. Capraro (eds.) Human Impacts on Amazonia: The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development . Columbia University Press. Salick, J., D.Anderson, J. Woo, R. Sherman, C. Norbu, A Na, and S. Dorje 2004. Tibetan Ethnobotany and Gradient Analyses, Menri ( Medicine Mountains), Eastern Himalayas. Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. Hamlin, C.C. and J. Salick 2003. Yanesha Agriculture in the Upper Peruvian Amazon: Persistence and change fifteen years down the “road”. Economic Botany 57:163-180. Salick, J. et al 2003. Intellectual Imperatives in Ethnobiology: NSF biocomplexity report. Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, 10pp. Salick, J. et al. 1999. Whence Biodiversity? A direct relationship between biodiversity and useful plants with the Dusun of Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo. Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 797-818. Salick, J. & E. Pfeffer 1999. The interplay of hybridization and clonal reproduction in the evolution of willows. Plant Ecology 141: 163-178. Salick, J., N. Cellinese, & S. Knapp, 1997. Indigenous diversity of cassava: generation, maintenance, use and loss among the Amuesha, Peruvian Upper Amazon. Economic Botany 51: 6-19. Salick, J. 1995. Non-timber forest products integrated with natural forest management. Ecological Applications 5: 922-954. Salick, J. 1995. Toward an integration of evolutionary ecology and economic botany: personal perspectives on plant/people interactions. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82: 68-85. Salick, J. 1992. Crop domestication and the evolutionary ecology of cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal). Evolutionary Biology 26: 247-285. Salick, J. & L. Merrick, 1990. Use and maintenance of genetic resources: crops and their wild relatives. Pp. 517-548 in Carroll et al. (editors), Agroecology. Macgraw-Hill, N.Y. Salick, J. & M. Lundberg 1990. Variation and change in Amuesha indigenous agricultural systems. Advances in Economic Botany 8: 199-223. Salick, J. 1989. Ecological basis of Amuesha agriculture. Advances in Economic Botany 7: 189-212. Salick, J. 1983. Natural history of wild, crop-related species. Proceedings of the Tall Timbers Conference. Environmental Management 7: 85-90. Updated 02/17/06.