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Overview

Tinde van Andel is affiliated with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Anthropology. This multidisciplinary approach reflects in the range of topics addressed, including plant and animal studies, ethnobotanical and medicinal plants research, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, African botany and ecology, agriculture, land use, rural development, and botanical studies and applications.

Their publication record includes numerous papers in reputable venues. Frequent publication venues include Economic Botany, Research Square, Zenodo, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, and Botany Letters. The diversity of venues indicates engagement with both botanical sciences and ethnopharmacological investigations.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • Reshaping the future of ethnobiology research after the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Nature Plants
  • The global distribution of plants used by humans (2024), Science
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia (2023), Science
  • From Bush Mangoes to Bouillon Cubes: Wild Plants and Diet among the Baka, Forager-Horticulturalists from Southeast Cameroon (2020), Economic Botany

Van Andel has also contributed to book publications, including the title "Annonaceae - Flora of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana," published in 2023 by Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris; IRD, Marseille eBooks.

Collaborations form a significant part of their work. Frequent coauthors include Anastasia Stefanaki, Harro Maat, Nicholaas Pinas, William Milliken, and Isabela Pombo Geertsma, indicating active cooperation with scholars specializing in related fields.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

    Hans Ter Steege;Nigel Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos

  • An analysis of the floristic composition and diversity of Amazonian forests including those of the Guiana Shield

    Hans Ter Steege;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos;Tinde Van Andel

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal

    Abishkar Subedi;Bimal Kunwar;Young Choi;Yuntao Dai

  • Scientists’ Warning on Climate Change and Medicinal Plants

    Wendy L. Applequist;Josef A. Brinckmann;Anthony B. Cunningham;Robbie E. Hart

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Use and management of traditional medicinal plants by Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia.

    Berhane Kidane;Berhane Kidane;Tinde van Andel;Laurentius Josephus Gerardus van der Maesen;Zemede Asfaw

  • Forest-related partnerships in Brazilian Amazonia: There is more to sustainable forest management than reduced impact logging

    Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen;Tinde van Andel;Carla Morsello;Kei Otsuki

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • Reshaping the future of ethnobiology research after the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Ina Vandebroek;Andrea Pieroni;John Richard Stepp;Natalia Hanazaki

  • Sustainability aspects of commercial medicinal plant harvesting in Suriname

    Tinde van Andel;Reinout Havinga

  • Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

    Jean François Bastin;Ervan Rutishauser;James R. Kellner;Sassan Saatchi

  • The Diverse Uses Of Fish-Poison Plants In Northwest Guyana

    Tinde Van Andel

  • Quantifying the domestic market in herbal medicine in Benin, West Africa.

    Diana Quiroz;Diana Quiroz;Alexandra Towns;Sènan Ingrid Legba;Jorik Swier

  • Prioritizing West African medicinal plants for conservation and sustainable extraction studies based on market surveys and species distribution models

    T.R. van Andel;S. Croft;E.E. van Loon;D. Quiroz;D. Quiroz

  • The global distribution of plants used by humans

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  • Floristic composition and diversity of mixed primary and secondary forests in northwest Guyana

    Tinde van Andel

  • Ritual uses of palms in traditional medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: a review

    Marta Gruca;Tinde R van Andel;Henrik Balslev

  • In search of the perfect aphrodisiac: parallel use of bitter tonics in West Africa and the Caribbean.

    Tinde van Andel;Sylvia Mitchell;Gabriele Volpato;Ina Vandebroek

  • Non-timber Forest Products of the North-west District of Guyana

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  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

    Frederick C. Draper;Frederick C. Draper;Frederick C. Draper;Flavia R.C. Costa;Gabriel Arellano;Oliver L. Phillips

  • African Rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.): Lost Crop of the Enslaved Africans Discovered in Suriname1

    Tinde Van Andel

  • Origins and geographic diversification of African rice (Oryza glaberrima).

    Margaretha A. Veltman;Jonathan M. Flowers;Jonathan M. Flowers;Tinde R. van Andel;Tinde R. van Andel;M. Eric Schranz

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo J. de Boer
Hugo J. de Boer University of Oslo
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Barbara Gravendeel
Barbara Gravendeel Leiden University
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History

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