Fred Stauffer

Dr ès Sci
Conservateur responsable

Herbiers de phanérogamie

T +41 22 418 51 78
fred.stauffer(at)ville-ge.ch

Sites internet
https://www.hyphaene.org/
https://www.multipalms.org

Biographie

My scientific and administrative tasks in the herbarium include curation of part of the Monocotyledon collections. I support all initiatives aiming to highlight the importance and visibility of our precious holdings. Our 4.5 million specimens require to be permanently conditioned and scientifically updated.
Palm taxonomy, floristics, ethnobotany and conservation concentrate my main scientific interests, and often my research questions should be addressed in field missions (Africa). Together with other colleagues in CJBG the taxonomy of the incompletely known palm genus Hyphaene is currently studied and the phylogenetic relationships assessed with cutting-edge molecular techniques.
As curator of the flowering plants herbarium I am also interested in botanical history, focusing my current research on the collections gathered by Humboldt and Bonpland in the Neotropics and the palm collections represented in the Carl von Martius herbarium.
Since 2006 I participate in several courses of botany at the University of Geneva.

Diplômes et Comités

Diplômes

  • Ph.D. Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2003.
  • Ing. Agr. Faculty of Agronomy, Venezuelan Central University,  Venezuela, 1994.

Comités

  • Executive Secretary of the A.P. de Candolle Price, Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Research Fellow, Montgomery Botanical Center, Miami, USA
  • Member of the editorial Committee of the scientific journals Candollea and Webbia
Programmes / Projets au sein des CJBG
Publications et Ouvrages

Publications
seulement les 4 dernières années

Auger-Micou, M. D. Roguet, A. Aziz camara, P. Griffith, L. Noblick and F.W. Stauffer. 2022. Palm Diversity and Ethnobotany in Senegal, West Africa. PALMS 66(3): 127-146.

Jousson  A., C. Christe, F. Stauffer, B. Marazzi, F. Aberlenc, G. Maspoli & Y. Naciri. 2022. Panmixia and active colonisation of the invasive palm Trachycarpus fortunei (Arecaceae) in Southern Switzerland and Northern Italy as inferred by microsatellites and SNP markers. Biol. Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02874-8

Stauffer, F., D. N. Ouattara, L. Michon, S. da Giau, P. Ekpe, K. Adéoti, E. Ewedje, K. Koudouvo, D. Roguet, C. Chatelain & A. Bakayoko. 2021. The palm flora of West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Bénin. Archives des Sciences 72:1-77.

Jousson, A., Y. Naciri & F. Stauffer. 2021. Comprendre la colonisation du palmier Trachycarpus fortunei au sud des alpes : une approche multidisciplinaire. Saussurea 50 : 105-112.

Hosni, H., A. Diallo, F. Morcillo, V. Vaissayre, M. Collin, C. Tranchant-Dubreuil, S. Dussert, T. Joët, F. Castaño, X. Marquínez, F.W. Stauffer, D.R. Hodel, J.J. Castillo Mont, H. Adam, S. Jouannic & J.W. Tregear. 2021. Redox-related gene expression and sugar accumulation patterns are altered in the edible inflorescence produced by the cultivated form of pacaya palm (Chamaedorea tepejilote). Annals of Botany, 128: 231-240.

Stauffer, F.W. & J. Stauffer. 2020. The Goujaud Bonpland brothers: two complementary approaches of botanical knowledge. Bonplandia 29:253-270.

Stauffer, F.W. 2019. General aspects of botany, ecology, uses and conservation of the canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis H. Wildpret, Arecaceae). Schweizerische beiträge zur Dendrologie 69-70: 81-85.

Montoya, E., J. Pedra-Mendez, E. García-Falcó, M. Gómez-Paccard, S. Giralta, T. Vegas-Vilarrúbia, F. W. Stauffer & V. Rull. 2019. Long-term vegetation dynamics of a tropical megadelta: Mid-Holocene palaeoecology of the Orinoco Delta (NE Venezuela).  Quaternary Science Reviews 221: 1-16.

Stauffer, F.W., J. Eychenne, N. Ortega & H. Balslev. 2019. Structural biology and evolution in the monotypic Amazonian palm Wendlandiella (Arecoideae: Chamaedoreeae). Candollea 74: 15 – 30.

Loiseau, O., I. Olivares, M. Paris, M. de La Harpe, A. Weigand, D. Koubínová, J. Rolland, C. D. Bacon, H. Balslev, F. Borchsenius, A. Cano, T.L.P. Couvreur, C. Delnatte, F. Fardin, M. Gayot, F. Mejía, T. Mota-Machado, M. Perret, J. Roncal, M.J. Sanin, F.W. Stauffer, C. Lexer, M. Kessler & N. Salamin. 2019. Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae. Front. Plant Sci. 10:864.

Fred W. Stauffer, D. J. Roguet, C. Christe, Y. Naciri, M. Perret and D. N. Ouattara. 2018. A multidisciplinary study of the doum palms (Hyphaene Gaertn.): origin of the project, current advances and future perspectives. Saussurea 47: 83-102.

Olaranont, Y. F.W. Stauffer, P. Traipern and G. Staples. 2018. Investigation of the black dots on leaves of Strictocardia species (Convolvulaceae) using anatomical and histochemical analyses. Flora 249: 133-142.

Mogue, S., R. Niangadouma, F. W. Stauffer, B. Sonké and T.L. Couvreur. 2018. Two new species of Raphia (Palmae/Arecaceae) from Cameroon and Gabon. Phytokeys 111:17-30.

Michon, L., K. Adeoti, K. Koffi, E. Ewedje and F.W. Stauffer. 2018. Notes on Borassus aethiopum Mart., a multiple purpose palm in Togo and Benin. PALMS 62: 57-69.

Cano, A, Bacon CD, Stauffer FW, Antonelli A, Serrano-Serrano ML, Perret M. 2018. The roles of dispersal and mass extinction in shaping palm diversity across the Caribbean. J Biogeogr. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13225

Eychenne J, Ortega N, Balslev H, Muscarella R, Stauffer FW. 2018. Taxonomic revision, distribution and ecology of Wendlandiella (Arecaceae: Arecoideae: Chamaedoreeae) Webbia 73: 179-190.

Mbandu Luzolawo, P., C. Lubini, J.-B. Matchu-Mandje & F. W. Stauffer. 2018. The Palms from the Southwestern Congolese Central Basin (Democratic Republic of Congo). PALMS 62: 87-100.

 

Ouvrages

Gauto, I. & F.W. Stauffer. 2016. Palmeras del Paraguay. Guía de Identificación. Proyecto Paraguay Biodiversidad, Itaipu Binacional (Silvia Centrón Ed.). Asunción, Paraguay, 120 p.

Stauffer, F. W., D. Ouattara & A. L. Stork. 2014. Palmae. Pages 326-354 in Lebrun, J.-P. & A. L. Stork (eds.). Tropical African Flowering Plants: Monocotyledons 2, vol. 8. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Switzerland.

Spichiger, R., F. W. Stauffer, F. Mereles, M. Soloaga & P.-A. Loizeau. 2011. Clave de identificación para las familias de Angiospermas de Paraguay. In Serie Especial Flora del Paraguay, nro. 8. (L. Ramella & P. Perret, eds.), Genève. 250 pp.