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Current contact information:
International Union for the Conservation of Nature, BP 5506, Bastos,
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Email: g.walters@ucl.ac.uk
CURRENT POST
Gretchen is the Forest Program Coordinator for IUCN’s West and Central Africa program, based in Yaoundé, Cameroon. She is interested in bringing research results into conservation policy and practice and in the intersection of social and biological sciences. She is currently part of a pan-Africa research and policy project on decentralisation, in partnership with the University of Illinois, CODESRIA, and IUCN, financed by SIDA.
| 2010-present | Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UCL |
| 2011-present | Chercheur Associé, Institut de Pharmacopée et Médecines Traditionnelles, Libreville, Gabon |
| 2010-present | Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA |
| 2010 | PhD in Anthropology, University College London |
| 2000-2010 | Missouri Botanical Garden, Central Africa Program, Botanist and Coordinator, St. Louis, MO & Libreville, Gabon |
| 2001 | MSc. in Environmental Plant Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA |
| 1999 | Organsation for Tropical Studies ecology course, Costa Rica |
| 1998 | National Park Service-Saguaro National Park, Fire Effects unit, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| 1996 | BSc Environmental Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA |
CURRENT RESEARCH AND APPLICATION
- Historical and current resource use (e.g. hunting, agriculture) in remote and peri-urban tropical environments, implications for conservation
- Historical and current effects of human use on tropical ecosystem structure and carbon studies
- Red listing as a tool for conservation and policy
- Endemic plant conservation
- Fire (human ecology, regime change, management, policy)
- Decentralisation policy of natural resources
Regional Interest: Central and West Africa, particularly Gabon
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Walters, G., Coad, L., Schleicher, J., Hymas, O., & Kialo, P. Understanding evolving resource governance in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation, Society for Conservation Biology, 25th Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Jeffery, K., Palla, F., Walters, G., Mendoza, I., Abernethy, K., & White, L.J.T. 2011. Fire management in a changing landscape: a case study from Lopé National Park, Gabon. 5th International Wildland Fire Conference Proceedings, Sun City, South Africa.
Walters, G. 2010. Understanding savanna burning in Central Africa using a human ecological approach. Oxford Center for Tropical Forestry.
PUBLICATIONS
Walters, G. I. Parmentier, T. Stévart. 2012. Diversity and conservation value of Gabon's savanna and inselberg open vegetation. Plant Ecology and Evolution. In press.
Harris D.J., K.E. Armstrong, G.M. Walters, C. Wilks, J.J. Wieringa, F.J. Breteler, M. Sosef, J-C. Mouandza Mbembo, R. Niangadouma. 2012. Phytogeographical Analysis and Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Loango National Park. Plant Ecology and Evolution. In press.
Eyebe, A., D. Endamana, J.A. Sayer, M. Ruiz Pérez, A. Boedhihartono, G. Walters, L. Ngono, K. Angu Angu. 2011. Community forestry and the challenge of aligning with Cameroon's green economy. Faune et Nature 26 (1) 49-53
Walters, G., G. Dauby, T. Stévart, R. Niangadouma, S. Dessein & O. Lachenaud. 2011. Novitates Gabonenses 80: additions and corrections to the flora of Gabon. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 68 (3) 423-442.
Van der Maesen, L.J.G. & G. M. Walters. 2011. Novitates Gabonenses 77: A new Eriosema from Gabon and adjacent Congo. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 144 (1) 101-105.
Walters, G. 2010. The Land Chief's embers: ethnobotany of Bateke fire regimes, savanna vegetation and resource use in Gabon. PhD. Thesis, University College of London. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/20195/
Harris, D.J., J.M. Moutsamboté, K. Armstrong, E. Kami, J.C. Mouandza, R. Niangadouma, G. Walters, and A.H. Wortley. 2009. Plantes d’Afrique Centrale: la collection de référence en images (DVD). Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Great Britain
Hymas, O. and G. Walters. 2009. Between the forest and the savanna. Film. 8 minutes 52 seconds.
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. Stévart, 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.
SELECT TECHNICAL REPORTS
Walters, G., Stévart, T., Drossaert, V., & Deblauwe, V. 2012, Localisation des centres et des aires d'endémisme botaniques du Gabon, Report to the Wildlife Conservation Society, Gabon.
Walters, G., Stévart, T., Ngagnia N.Eddy, Biteau, J. P., Ikabanga, D. U., Hymas, O., & Lachenaud, O. 2012, Conservation des plantes endémiques de la forêt de la Mondah et des environs de Libreville : plantes, population, et urbanisme, Rapport a l'Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon.
Walters, G. 2010, Rapport sur l'état actuel de la gestion des savanes dans les parcs nationaux du Gabon, University College London.
Walters, G. 2010. Proposition de plan de gestion du feu pour le Parc National de Loango (Gabon). Submitted to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Gabon’s National Parks.
Walters, G., Touladjan, S., & the Bateke People 2009, Savanna burning yesterday and today in Gabon's Bateke Plateaux: foraging-fires and ecosystem effects, Thesis Summary for diffusion in Central Africa, University College London.
Walters, G., Ngok Banak, L., Abitsi, G., & Nziengui, B. Approaches to parataxonomy in Gabon's national parks, AETFAT, 18th Congress, Yaoundé, Cameroun.
STUDENTS
Ikabanga, D.U. 2011. Utilisation de l'espace forêt et ses espèces végétales par deux communautés sud de la Forêt Classée de la Mondah, Gabon. Mémoire Master 2, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku.
Ngagnia Ndjabounda, E.C. 2011. Localisation, conservation et evaluation selon l'UICN des plantes endemiques et rare de l'Estuaire. Mémoire Master 2, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku.
Ikabanga, D.U. 2010. Analyse de l’endémisme des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Mémoire Master 1. Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Gabon.
Ngagnia Ndjabounda, E.C. 2010. Analyse descriptive des plantes endémiques du Gabon. Mémoire Master 1. Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Gabon.
Ndong, L.O. 2005. Utilisation de l'imagerie sattelitale pour le suivi et la lutte contre les feux de savane «cas du Parc des Plateaux Batéké». Ecole National des Eaux et Forets, Gabon.
