Nigel Paul Taylor

Nigel Paul Taylor (* 1956 ) is a British botanist . His main area of ​​work is the taxonomy of the cactus family . He was the curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) and is the director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " NPTaylor ".

Life

Nigel Taylor joined the Herbarium of Kew Gardens in 1977 after graduating from Reading University as a Bachelor of Science , where he specialized in the taxonomy of cacti and their protection. As a modern plant hunter, he undertook numerous research trips to Central and South America . In 2000 he received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the Open University.

As a curator of Kew Gardens, he was responsible, in addition to his scientific work, for the work of more than 200 employees who are responsible for looking after the plant population in the show houses and the collections in the nurseries. In addition, the supervision of horticultural training and its facilities was one of his tasks. He serves on the Plant Sciences Advisory Board of the University of Reading, trustee of Castle Howard Arboretum , served on the editorial board of Kew Bulletin from 1996 to 2005 and Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1995 to 2005. He advises the editors of the British Broadcasting Corporation's gardening magazines .

From 1984 to 1988 Nigel Taylor was secretary of the Cactus & Succulent Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources , from 1989 to 1996 its vice president and from 1997 to 1998 its president. In September 2011 he left Kew and became director of the Singapore Botanical Gardens.

Works (selection)

• (with DC Zappi): An alternative view of generic delimitation and relationship in tribe Cereeae (Cactaceae) - Bradleya 7: 13-40, 1989.
• (with U. Eggli): IOS Index of names of Cactaceae published 1950–1990. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 222 pp. 1991.
• The Genus Melocactus in Central and South America . British Cactus & Succulent Society & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Reprinted from Bradleya 9: 1-80 (1991)]. 80 pp. 1991.
• (with EF Anderson and S. Arias Montes): Threatened Cacti of Mexico . Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 136 pp. 1994.
• (with Wilhelm Barthlott ): Notes towards a monograph of Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae) - Bradleya 13: 43-79, 1995.
• (with W. Stuppy and W. Barthlott): Realignment and revision of the Opuntioideae of Eastern Brazil - Succulent Plant Research 6: 99-132, 2002.
• Iconotypes and cacti in Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Curtis's Botanical Magazine 20: 177-185. 2003.
• (with DC Zappi): Cacti of Eastern Brazil . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 499 pp. 2004.
• (with MC Machado, DC Zappi and EL Borba): Taxonomy and conservation of the Discocactus Pfeiff. (Cactaceae) species occurring in the state of Bahia, Brazil - Bradleya 23: 41-56, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ^ RK Brummitt, CE Powell: Authors of Plant Names . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , 1992, ISBN 1-84246-085-4 .
2. ↑ Spokesman for Kew Gardens  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Brief curriculum vitae on the Kew Gardens website ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Staff details on the BGCI website
5. ^ Introductory lecture by Nigel Taylor in Singapore

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Nigel Paul Taylor at the IPNI