| Expert Name | Dr. Alejandro Casas Fernández |
| Title | Professor and Researcher |
| Division | Faculty of Sciences |
| Institution | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| City | México DF |
| Country | Mexico |
| Telephone | 52 43 200830 |
| Email | casas(at)miranda.ecologia.unam.mx |
| Work Experience | - Researcher at the projects: Integral Utilization of Natural Resources and Social Development in Subsistence Rural Areas. Ecology Laboratory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
- Professor (full time), Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, 1983-1993
- Guest researcher at the project "Maintenance of Biodiversity in the Tehuacan Valley developed by UNAM, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix Arizona funded by WWF, 1991
- Professor of Human Ecology, Faculty of Medecine at the UNAM |
| Qualifications | |
| Number of Publications | 5 |
| Awards | - National Researcher, National Systems of Researches, 1995, National Council of Science and Technology, CONACYT, Mexico.
- Honorary mention by the Mexican Botanical Society by the work "Etnobotanica mixteca alimentacion y subsistencia en la montaña de |
| Other Activities | - Member of the Mexican Botanical Society
- Member of the Latin americans of Etnobotanical Group
- Member of the Society of Ethnobiology
- British Ecological Genetics Group
- Society of Economic Botany |
| Publications | 1. Casas, A., J.L. Viveros, E. Katz and J. Caballero. 1987. The Plants in the Mixtec Alimentation: an Ethnobotanical approach. Indigenous America. 47(2)317-343.
2. Casas, A. and J. Caballero. 1996. Traditional Management and Morphological Region Variation in Leucaena Esculenta (Moc. et Sessé ex A. DC.) Benth. in the Mistec of Guerrero, mexico. Economic Botany 50(2):167-181.
3. Casas, A., M.C. Vasquez, J.L. Viveros and J. Caballero. 1996. Plant Management among the Nahua and the Mixtec of the Balsas river basin: an ethnobotanical approach to the study of plan doemstication. Human ecology 24(4):455-478.
4. Casas, A., B. Pickersgill, J. Caballero and A. Valiente-Banuet. Ethnobotany and the Process of Domestication in the Xoconochtli Stenocereus Stellatus (CACTACEAE) in the Tehuacan Valley and La Mixteca Baja, Mexico. Economic Botany (in press).
5. Valiente-Banuet, A., A. Rojas-Martinez, A. Casas, M.C. Arizmendi and P. Davila. Floral Biology and Pollination Ecology of |
| Discipline | Ecology/Ecosystems |
| Last updated | 27/07/2011 17:11:00 |
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