Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai

ISBN-13: 9783030289461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 881 str.

Ketevan Batsatsashvili; Zaal Kikvidze; Rainer W. Bussmann

Spis treści

Central Asia and Altai – Introduction to the Region (10000 words)

Country Chapter Kazakhstan (4000-6000 words)

Country Chapter Kyrgystan and Tadjikistan (4000-6000 words)

Country Chapter Mongolia (4000-6000 words)

Country Chapter Siberian Russia (4000-6000 words)

Plant profiles: 100-125 plant profiles (1500-2500 words and 2-4 figure each)

O autorze

Dr. Ketevan Batsatsashvili graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia, in 1999. She received her doctorate at Tbilisi State University in 2005 for the thesis “Lichens as bioindicators of air pollution in Tbilisi.” Dr. Batsatsashvili joined the Botany department at TSU as Doctoral Candidate from 2001 to 2005 and the Tbilisi Institute of Botany as Assistant Professor (now Institute of Botany of Ilia State University) since. From 2008 to 2012, she worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ecology of Ilia State University and became Associate Professor of Botany in 2013. Her major research interests are lichens and plant diversity, biological monitoring of environmental stress, species extinction risk assessment, and ethnobiology. Dr. Batsatsashvili has authored and co-authored some 25 research papers and over 250 book chapters.

Dr. Zaal Kikvidze graduated in 1978 from the Faculty of Biology at Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and defended his Ph.D. thesis “Functional properties of Na, K-ATPase” in 1983 at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. He worked as a Researcher in the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and in the Institute of Teachers’ Training of Georgia and later graduated in the Certificate Course in Environmental Education at Jordanhill College, Strathclyde University, Glasgow,

Scotland, UK. In 1993 he defended a Doctor of Science (Habil.) thesis “Structural and functional optimalization in biological systems” at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences of. Dr. Kikvidze worked as Associate Researcher at Chiba University (Japan), as Ramon-y-Cajal Fellow in the Consejo Superior de las Investigaciones Científicas (Spain), and Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo (Japan). The major lines of his research are plant community ecology, species diversity and geographical distributions on ecological gradients, rules of species coexistence and interactions among organisms, environmental education, ethno-ecology, and socio-ecology. Dr. Kikvidze published over 115 papers in scientific, educational, and scientific-popular journals and over 250 book chapters. Since 2006 he has been cooperating with Ilia State University and became Professor of Ecology in 2012. Dr. Kikvidze is Full Professor and Director of the Institute

of Ethno-biology and Socio-ecology since 2014.