Vernon Heywood

Vernon Hilton Heywood ( born December 24, 1927) is a British biologist and botanist. Heywood has worked in the field of taxonomy and systematics. He is the first to describe numerous species of plants.

He distinguished himself particularly in the field of medicinally useful and essential oils containing plant and dedicated to the preservation of wild varieties of crops. To this end, he explores ways to preserve the genetic material of endangered plants.

Heywood is involved in numerous initiatives to conserve biodiversity or has initiated, such as the global network of botanical gardens Network Botanic Gardens Conservation International ( BGCI ). He was coordinator of the UNEP Global Biodiversity Assessment.

He is (2009 ) Professor Emeritus of the University of Reading in England. He taught botany and there was the head of the botanical garden. He was president of the International Council for medicinal and aromatic plants (International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants ).

Awards

Heywood was 1987, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London. Planta Europa awarded him with their fifth Conference 2007 in Cluj- Napoca ( Cluj ) with her award Linnaeus. The book Taxonomy and Plant Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2006, publisher Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury) was dedicated Heywood on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Publications

A selection:

  • Plant Taxonomy, Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1971, no ISBN
  • As editor Flowering Plants of the World, Andromeda Oxford, Abingdon, 1978, ISBN 0-19-521037-9 In German language: Flowering plants of the world, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1982, ISBN 3-7643-1305-6
  • The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Change. In: 100 years in Berlin- Dahlem - International Scientific Symposium - Botanic Gardens: Awareness for Biodiversity, Program and Abstracts: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin- Dahlem, 2004, page 18
  • By Edward S. Ayensu, Grenville L. Lucas and Robert A. Defilipps Our Green and Living World. The Wisdom to Save it. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC and Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England ), 1984, ISBN 0-521-26842-7
  • With Elizabeth Dowdeswell Global Biodiversity Assessment, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England ), 1995, ISBN 0-521-56403-4 and ISBN 0-521-56481-6 ( paperback )
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