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Conservation, Biogeography, Plant genetic resources, Agriculture
Colombia

Activities

Employment (2)

Global Crop Diversity Trust: Bonn, DE

2016-12-01 to present
Employment
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

International Center for Tropical Agriculture: Palmira, Valle del Cauca, CO

2008-10 to 2016-11-30 (Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA))
Employment
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Birmingham: Birmingham, Birmingham, GB

2010-09-26 to 2016-12-06 | PhD Biosciences (School of Biosciences)
Education
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Universidad Nacional de Colombia: Bogota, CO

2003 to 2008 (Facultad de Agronomía)
Education
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Funding (1)

Adapting agriculture to climate change: collecting, protecting and preparing crop wild relatives

2011-01 to present | Grant
Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) (Bonn, DE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Works (16)

GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information

Ecography
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Carver; Chrystian C. Sosa; Colin K. Khoury; Harold A. Achicanoy; Maria Victoria Diaz; Steven Sotelo; Nora P. Castañeda‐Álvarez; Julian Ramirez‐Villegas
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Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant ( Solanum melongena ): Poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction

American Journal of Botany
2016-03-29 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives

Nature Plants
2016-03-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez; Colin K. Khoury; Harold A. Achicanoy; Vivian Bernau; Hannes Dempewolf; Ruth J. Eastwood; Luigi Guarino; Ruth H. Harker; Andy Jarvis; Nigel Maxted et al.
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Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan ( L .) Millsp .]: Distributions , ex situ conservation status , and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance

Biological Conservation
2015 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Ex Situ Conservation Priorities for the Wild Relatives of Potato (Solanum L . Section Petota)

PLOS ONE
2015 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Ecogeography and utility to plant breeding of the crop wild relatives of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)

Frontiers in Plant Science
2015-09 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Distributions, ex situ conservation priorities, and genetic resource potential of crop wild relatives of sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., I. series Batatas]

Frontiers in Plant Science
2015-03-28 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Endemic wild potato (Solanum spp.) biodiversity status in Bolivia: Reasons for conservation concerns

Journal for Nature Conservation
2014 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Robustness and accuracy of Maxent niche modelling for Lactuca species distributions in light of collecting expeditions

Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization
2014 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1479-2621
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Wild relatives

2014 | Magazine article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

A prioritized crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security

Biological Conservation
2013 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Application of consensus theory to formalize expert evaluations of plant species distribution models

2013 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Ecogeographic surveys

2012 | Interactive resource
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Gap analysis: A tool for genetic conservation

2012 | Interactive resource
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Phaseolus hygrophilus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae), a new wild bean species from the wet forests of Costa Rica, with notes about section Brevilegumeni

Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
2011 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1934-5259
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Additional observations about Phaseolus rotundatus (Fabaceae), an endemic bean species from Western Mexico

Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
2009 | Journal article
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Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Biodiversity and conservation. (1)