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Flora, vegetation and ecology in the Venezuelan Andes: a case study of Ramal
de Guaramacal
Cuello Alvarado, N.L.
Publication date
2010
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Cuello Alvarado, N. L. (2010). Flora, vegetation and ecology in the Venezuelan Andes: a case
study of Ramal de Guaramacal. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED).
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Nidia Lourdes Cuello Alvarado was born on 25 of October of 1964 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She received her BSc degree in Natural Resource Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora, Venezuela, in February 12, 1988, obtaining first place of a promotion of twelve. Her research project to obtain BSc was entitled “Caracterizacion florístico-estructural de la vegetación de un sector de la cuenca media del Río Portuguesa, Edo. Portuguesa, Venezuela”. After that, during two years, she was based at the Herbario Universitario PORT of UNELLEZ participating as assistant to a project for inventory of natural resources in the Venezuelan Guayana region (Proyecto Inventario de los Recursos Naturales de la Región Guayana - P.I.R.N.R.G) conducted by Corporación Venezolana de Guayana (C.V.G.-TECMIN, C.A.) in the job of collecting, processing and identification of botanical specimens from the Venezuelan Guayana. During that time she had the opportunity to stay six months at The Missouri Botanical Garden receiving training and working on identification of botanical specimens from the Venezuelan Guayana for the mentioned project. Since then, she got involved as contributor for preparing floristic manuscript of some legume and Clusiaceae genera for the Flora of Venezuelan Guayana project. In 1990, she got a position as Instructor professor in Botany at Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora, where she currently works as Titular Professor. She obtained her MSc in Biology at University of Missouri - St. Louis in May 18, 1997. Her research title for her MSc Thesis was: Floristic Diversity and Structure of the montane cloud forests of Cruz Carrillo National Park in the Venezuelan Andes. She also obtained a Graduate Certificate in Tropical Biology and Conservation at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in January 12, 1997. Since 1997 to present day, she has been in charge of the direction of Herbarium PORT of the UNELLEZ, where she has coordinated grants from FONACIT, Conservation International and The A.W. Mellon Foundation for herbarium support on collection data basing. At UNELLEZ, she has also coordinated and teaching the course of Botany for the Academic Program of Natural Resources Engineering. During her professional life she has attended and participated in different symposia and meetings, presenting her works in ten international events and in sixteen national events in Venezuela. She has been accredited by Venezuelan system of scientific researcher’s promotion (Programa de Promocion al Investigador -PPI) since 1997. She has also been awarded with grants from Alberta Mennega Stichting, Elizabeth Bascom (Missouri Botancial Garden), Smithsonian Institution, CONICIT, FONACIT. UNELLEZ, Fundación Polar, International Centre for Tropical Ecology (ICTE) of the University of Missouri-St.Louis. Since 1995 she has been doing research in Ramal de Guaramacal in the Venezuelan Andes, initially with support from the related project Flora of Guaramacal, jointly conducted by Basil Stergios (UNELLEZ) and Laurence Dorr (NMNH of Smithsonian Institution), for her MSc degree Thesis. Later, she developed her own research project with grants from UNELLEZ and FONACIT for geobotanical exploration and floristic surveys of the vegetation types occurring in Guaramacal area. Results of this work have been used in part for the completion of her PhD thesis.
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