Global Tree Specialist Group Members

The IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group (GTSG) has over 80 expert members from botanic gardens, herbaria, universities and both governmental and non-governmental organisations. Find out more about the specialists who help to inform the conservation work we carry out.

Adrian Newton

Co-chair of the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group

Bournemouth University, UK

Mark Nicholson

Ecological restoration, East African trees

Brackenhurst Botanic Garden, Kenya

Darién-Prado

Darién E. Prado

Neotropical dry forests, Argentine temperate & subtropical vegetation, Chaco & Espinal forests, genus Schinopsis

Botany, Agrarian Sciences, National University of Rosario & CONICET, Argentina

Prof. Hugh W. Pritchard

Tree seed & embryo biology, storage/cryopreservation & germination

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst Place, UK

Esteban M. Martínez Salas

Herbario Nacional de México, Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, UNAM

Marie-Stéphanie Samain

Hydrangeaceae

Centro Regional del Bajío, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Mexico

Dr. George E. Schatz

Annonaceae, Ebenaceae, Flora of Madagascar

Missouri Botanical Garden, USA

Prof. Peter A. Schmidt

German Dendrology Society