Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Change Using palaeoecology to manage dynamic landscapes in the Anthropocene

by Gillson, Lindsey

• ISBN13: 9780198713043
• ISBN10: 0198713045
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Lindsey Gillson, Associate Professor, Plant Conservation Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town

Lindsey Gillson was educated at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. She worked in wildlife conservation for several years before returning to Oxford to research the application of palaeoecology in conservation, specialising in the management of African savannas as the subject of her doctoral thesis. She was appointed Trapnell Fellow in African Terrestrial Ecology at the University of Oxford in 2001, and moved to South Africa in 2006 to take up a post at the University of Cape Town. She is Deputy Director of the Plant Conservation Unit, and continues to work on the application of long-term data in the conservation and management of African biomes, and in developing the interface between palaeoecology and conservation biology.