Bradley Bennett, Ph.D. Academic Address Department of Biological Sciences Florida International University Miami, FL 33199 Phone: 305-348-3586 Fax: 305-348-1986 E-mail:bennett@fiu.edu

Education

• B.S. 1978 Bucknell University
• M.S. 1988 Florida Atlantic University
• Ph.D. 1988 University of North Carolina

Teaching Experience

Dr. Bennett has taught a wealth of ecology and conservation courses including Conservation of Tropical Forests, Ecology of Biotic Resources, Ecology of South Florida, Economic Botany, Ethno-botany, Ethnobotany Field Methods, Flora of South Florida, Readings in Ethnobotany, Restoration Ecology, Taxonomy of Tropical Plants, Trees of Tropical Florida; Florida International University. Dr. Bennett has taught field courses in Panama, Ecuador and Peru.

Research Interests

Dr. Bennett's research focuses on ecology of vascular epiphytes, tropical vegetation dynamics and flora, and his specialty, Neotropical ethnobotany. After finishing his doctorate, Dr. Bennett spent two years as a post-doc and two years as a research associate with the New York Botanical Garden'sInstitute of Economic Botany. During this time he studied plant use by the Shuar people of Amazonian Ecuador. He completed a similar study with the lowland Quichua in Ecuador and directed a multi-disciplinary study of the economic value of non-timber forest products in terra firme and flood-plain forests. Dr. Bennett also examined plant use of the Chachi, who live in the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador. Dr. Bennett's research and education has taken him to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, and Peru as well as Great Britain and Denmark.

Selected Publications

• (In Press). Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge: Linking indigenous people, conservation, and ethnoscience. Editor. Columbia University Press.
• (In Press). The future and focus of ethnobotany. In B.C. Bennett and A. Paul, eds. Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge: Linking indigenous people, conservation, and ethnoscience. Columbia University Press.
• 2001 Bennett, B.C., M.A. Baker, and P. Gómez. Ethnobotany of the Shuar of Eastern Ecuador. Advances in Econ. Bot. 14:1-299.
• 2001 The three Ps of scientific talks: Preparation, practice, and presentation. Plants and People.
• 2001 Bennett, B., D. Burtscher, L. Chaney, S. Colitz, D. Crandall, E. Appetiti, N. Etkin, F. Heidenreich, Ch. Kabuye, R. Kutalek, and D. Moerman. Ethnobotany's Problems and Potential. R. Chaves, ed. Proceedings of the International Symposium Ethnobotany, Medicinal Plants, Folk Traditions, History and Pharmacology. Universidad de la Paz, , San Jose Costa Rica and UNESCO. 7 pages. (published on CD).
• 2000 Reproduction and life history. Pages 245-328 in D.H. Benzing, editor. Bromeliaceae: Profile of an adaptive radiation. Cambridge University Press, London. Bennett, B.C. 2000. Ethnobotany of Bromeliaceae. Pages 587- 608 in D.H. Benzing, editor. Bromeliaceae: Profile of an adaptive radiation. Cambridge University Press, London.
• 2000 Bennett, B.C. and G.T. Prance. Introduced plants in the indigenous pharmacopoeia of northern South America. Econ. Botany 54:90-102
• 1998 Uses of Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small (saw palmetto) in Florida (with J. Hicklin). Econ. Bot 52:365-375.
• 1995 Ethnobotany and economic botany of epiphytes, lianas, and other host-dependent plants: An overview. Pages 547-586 in M. Lowman and N. Nadkarni, editors. Forest canopies: A review of research on this biological frontier. Academic Press, NY.
• 1994 The economic value of non-timber forest products in Ecuador (with A. Grimes. R Alarcón, P. Jahnige, S. Loomis, M. Burnham, K. Onthank, D. Neill, W. Palacios, C. Cerón, M. Balick, and R. Mendelsohn). Ambio 23:405-410.
• 1992 Hallucinogenic plants of the Shuar and related indigenous groups in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Brittonia 44:483-493.
• 1992 Plants and people of the Amazonian rainforests: The role of ethnobotany in sustainable development. BioScience 42:599-607.
• 1991 Comparative biology of neotropical epiphytic and saxicolous Tillandsia species: Population structure. J. Tropical Ecology 7:361-371.