Professor

Prof. Dr. Jaboury Ghazoul

Jaboury Ghazoul is a plant ecologist working mostly in the tropics on plant reproductive ecology. He has a hard time with his children.

Curriculum Vitae

Jaboury Ghazoul received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in evolutionary ecology of wasps under the supervision of Prof. Pat Willmer.

Thereafter he spent a year in Vietnam (1993-1994) leading biodiversity survey work with the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry, returning to London to work at the Natural History Museum (1995-1998) from where he ran a CIFOR project addressing the impacts of logging on dipterocarp tree reproduction in Thailand.

He was appointed Lecturer in Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London in 1998 and to Senior Lecturer in 2003. At Imperial he developed both basic and applied research in ecology and environment at locations throughout the tropics.

He was appointed as Professor of Ecosystem Management at ETH Zurich in October 2005.

Jaboury has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biotropica since 2006. His main research interests are plant reproduction, forest ecology and conservation management in landscape mosaics, but he dabbles in several other topics. His wider interests include geology, marine biology, political history, walking aimlessly in the Scottish Highlands and, above all, family.

Some Recent Publications

Boreux, V., Kushalappa, G.C., Vaast P. and Ghazoul, J. (2012) Interactive effects among ecosystem services and management practices on crop production: pollination in coffee agroforestry systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.

Finger, A., Kettle, C.J., Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N. and Ghazoul, J. (2012) Forest fragmentation genetics in a formerly widespread island endemic tree: Vateriopsis seychellarum (Dipterocarpaceae). Molecular Ecology, 21, 2369-2382.

Ghazoul, J. (2012) The challenge of inferring palaeoclimates from extant plant distributions: an example from Dipterocarpus. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 173, 80-81.

Hennig, E.I. and Ghazoul, J. (2012) Pollinating animals in the urban environment. Urban Ecosystems, 15, 149-166.

Krishnan, S., Kushalappa, C.G., Uma Shaanker, R. and Ghazoul, J. (2012) Status of pollinators and their efficiency in coffee fruit set in a fragmented landscape mosaic in South India. Basic and Applied Ecology, 13, 277-285.

Working hard in the Seychelles