Graciela Calderón (botanist)

Graciela Calderón
Other namesGraciela Calderón de Rzedowski
Alma materInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Mexico
Scientific career
ThesisVegetación del Valle de San Luis Potosí (1957)

Graciela Calderón Díaz Barriga (14 July 1931 – 2 January 2022[1]) was a Mexican botanist and professor who was known for her work on neotropical flora.

Education and career

She graduated in biology from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in 1957, with the thesis "Vegetation of the San Luis Potosí Valley".[2] She was recognized as a tenured researcher by the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. [3] She has worked at the Mexican Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, at the Institute of Ecology, A.C. (INECOL), at the Regional Center of the Bajío (in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán), in addition to the National School of Biological Sciences.[4]

She was married to Jerzy Rzedowski, a botanical researcher and naturalized Mexican. Graciela and her husband were honored in 1994 with an edited book detailing their impact on the study of botany in Mexico.[5]

Selected publications

  • Rzedowski, Jerzy; Calderón de Rzedowski, Graciela; Butanda, Armando. Los principales colectores de plantas activos en México entre 1700 y 1930 (in Spanish). Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Centro Regional del Bajío : Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. Retrieved 2024-10-28. [6]
  • Calderón de Rzedowski, Graciela (2006). Flora del Bajío y de regiones adyacentes. 141: Familia Chloranthaceae / por Graciela Calderón de Rzedowski (in Spanish). Pátzcuaro, Michoacán: Inst. de Ecología A. C., Centro Regional del Bajío. ISBN 970-709-077-4.
The standard author abbreviation Calderón is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

Honors and awards

Calderón received an honorary degree in 2010 from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.[8]

The flowering plant Megacorax gracielanus is named in honor of Calderón's contribution to botany.[9]

References

  1. ^ Guizar, Rosa Elena Murillo (18 February 2022). "Graciela Calderón Díaz Barriga (1931-2022)". Archived from the original on April 1, 2023.
  2. ^ "Calderón de Rzedowski, Graciela (1931-)". Global Plants.
  3. ^ CONABIO. "Graciela Calderón". Biodiversidad Mexicana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  4. ^ "Graciela Calderon Diaz Barriga". inecol.edu.mx. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  5. ^ Serrano, Valentina; Pelz Marín, Ricardo; Zamudio Ruiz, Sergio, eds. (1994). Los Rzedowski: dos grandes personalidades de la botánica. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro/Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.
  6. ^ Reviews of Los principales colectores de plantas activos en México entre 1700 y 1930
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Calderón.
  8. ^ Teresa Cedillo Nolasco (15 March 2010). "Graciela Calderón Díaz-Barriga, Doctora Honoris Causa por la UAM" (PDF).
  9. ^ Elizondo, M. Socorro González; Enriquez, I. Lorena López; Wagner, Warren L. (2002). "Megacorax gracielanus (Onagraceae), a New Genus and Species from Durango, Mexico". Novon. 12 (3): 360–365. doi:10.2307/3393079. ISSN 1055-3177.


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