Rainer W. Bussmann

|Rainer Bussmann - Contributing Author|Prof. Dr. Bussmann earned his M.Sc. (Diploma) in Biology at Universität Tübingen, in 1993 and his doctorate at Universität Bayreuth in 1994. He is an ethnobotanist and vegetation ecologist, and currently Head of the Department of Botany at the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is also a Full Professor of Ehnobotany at the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University. Before Dr. Bussmann was director of William L. Brown Center at Missouri Botanical Garden, William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany, and Senior Curator. Before accepting the directorship of WLBC, he held academic appointments as Research Fellow in Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2007, as Associate Professor of Botany and Scientific Director of Harold Lyon Arboretum at University of Hawaii from 2003 to 2006, and as Assistant Professor at University of Bayreuth from 1997 to 2003, following a postdoc at the same institution from 1994 to 1997. He holds affiliate appointments and serves as external thesis advisor at universities worldwide. His work focuses on ethnobotanical research, and the preservation of traditional knowledge, in the Andes, Caucasus, and the Himalayas. Dr. Bussmann has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers, over 1300 peer reviewed book chapters, and authored or edited 38 books. According to Plos Biology, he is one of the most cited ethnobotanists and recognized among the most influential scientists worldwide. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the “Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions” book series published by Springer Nature. Dr. Bussmann is past President of the Society for Economic Botany and has served as board/council member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, Botanical Society of America, and International Society of Ethnobiology. Bussmann is editor-in-chief of Ethnobotany Research and Applications, deputy editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, associate editor of Ethnobiology and Conservation, academic editor of PLOS One, editor of Ethnobotany topics for the Nordic Journal of Botany, and member of the editorial boards of Antibiotics, Life, Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, Pleione and Nelumbo

Publications

Assessment of Plant Genetic Resources and Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Tropical Agricultural Ecosystems: With a Special Focus on Diverse Agricultural Ecosystems in Sri Lanka
Assessment of Plant Genetic Resources and Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Tropical Agricultural Ecosystems: With a Special Focus on Diverse Agricultural Ecosystems in Sri Lanka
Ranil Rajapaksha, Gamini Pushpakumara, Rainer W. Bussmann. © 2024. 23 pages.
The agricultural ecosystems in Sri Lanka exhibit high diversity owing to the country's distinctive climate, soil variations, topography, and its unique geographical position...