Curriculum Vitae

Hugo Navarrete Zambrano

updated 1. October 2002

Dr. Hugo Navarrete, director del Herbario QCA, Universidad Católica del Ecuador, graduated in 2001 at the Universidad Católica. He worked within the Danish-Ecuadorian Enreca programme and is an expert on Neotropical ferns and mountain forest ecology. He has directed the herbarium since 2001 and teaches systematic botany at the university. He coordinates the Tropical Forest Dynamics project at the Yasuni Research station which is funded by the American Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He supervises 5 thesis students in taxonomy and ecology of various Ecuadorian plant groups.

Born:	Quito, Ecuador. November 3, 1969.
e-mail:	hnavarrete@puce.edu.ec or hugona@interactive.net.ec

Education

1997–2001 Earned, Ph.D. on Biological Sciences, through the Department of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

1989–1994 Earned, “Licenciado en Biología”, through the Department of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

Profesional experience

2002– Associate Teacher in the Department of Biological Sciencies, Catholical University in Quito.

2001– Director of the QCA Herbarium at the Department of Biological Sciencies, Catholical University in Quito.

2001– Scientific and technical advisor for the project “ Studies on the dynamics of the Yasuní Forest”. A cooperation project between PUCE, STRI, Aarhus University and Field Museum of Natural History.

1999–2000 Evaluation of the conservation status of Ecuadorian endemic vascular plants.

1998–1999 Teacher of the Pteridophytes section of a General Botany course, at Catholical University in Quito.

1995–2000 Visits to AAU Herbarium (Aarhus, Denmark), to identify fern specimens. Eigth to twelve weeks period each year.

1994–1998 Researcher in the Center for Research on the Cultural and Biological Diversity of Andean Rain Forest (DIVA).

1990–1993 Asistant curator of the pteridophytes section of the QCA Herbarium, Quito, Ecuador.

Publications

Navarrete, H. 2002. Los helechos arborescentes: gigantes prehistóricos que aún se encuentran en nuestros bosques. Nuestra Ciencia 4: 41–42.

Navarrete, H. 2001. Helechos comunes de la Amazonía baja ecuatoriana. 152 pp. Editorial SIMBIOE, Quito.

Navarrete, H & Øllgaard, B. 2000. The fern genus Dennstaedtia (Dennstaedtiaceae) in Ecuador, – new characters, new species and a new combination. Nordic Journal of Botany 20: 319–346.

Navarrete, H. 2000. Pteridophyta. In: Valencia, R., Pitman, N. y León–Yánez, S., (eds.). Libro rojo de las plantas endémicas del Ecuador pp. 31–49. Hojas y Signos, Quito.

Navarrete, H. 2000. Los helechos endémicos del Ecuador: distribución y estado de conservación. Nuestra Ciencia 2: 14–17.

Navarrete, H. & Jørgensen P.M. 1999. Blechnace. In: Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. eds. (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75: 113–115. Missouri Botanical Garden Press.

Navarrete, H. 1999. Dennstatedtiaceae. In: Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. eds. (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75: 120–122. Missouri Botanical Garden Press.

Navarrete, H. 1999. Los Helechos, viejos conocidos que aún nos quedan por descubrir. Ecuador terra incognita. 1(2): 8–11. Note: Ecuador terra incognita is an Ecuadorian magazine devoted to divulge the biological knowledge in a popular language.

Navarrete, H. 1994. Taxonomía del Género Dennstaedtia Bernhardi en el Ecuador. Tesis de Licenciatura, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

Øllgaard, B. Ståhl, B. & Navarrete, H. 1998. Plant diversity and endemism. In: Borgtoft, H., Skov, F., Fjeldså, J., Schjellerup, I., & Øllgaard, B. (eds). 1998. People and biodiversity. Two case studies from the Andean foothills of Ecuador. pp 143–158.

Øllgaard, B & Navarrete, H. 1997. Pteridophyte species richness in the valleys of Río Oyacahi, Río Quijos and upper Río Aguarico. In: DIVA (1997): Oyacachi - people and biodiversity. Centre for Research on Cultural and Biological Diversity of Andean Rain Forest (DIVA), 120 pp.- DIVA Technical Report no 2.

Ståhl, B., Øllgaard, B., Navarrete, H. & S. Báez, 1997. Plants of Oyacahi - an annotated list of vascular plants. In: DIVA (1997): Oyacachi - people and biodiversity. Centre for Research on Cultural and Biological Diversity of Andean Rain Forest (DIVA), 120 pp.- DIVA Technical Report no 2.

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