Publications by Stephen Droop, excluding those on algae:

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Original contributions

Droop, S.J.M. (2000). Trading Dax futures using Futures-Online's Strategic Trader. Published on the WWW: follow link "Independant report" from: http://www.ia-futures-online.com/ 

Davis, S. (ed.) (1994). Centres of Plant Diversity, vol. 1. IUCN, Cambridge. [I helped to develop the concept and layout, and contributed sample data sheets on Mt Nimba and Mt Mulanje.]

Droop, S.J.M. (1991). The Ethiopian Region: Habitats and Plants. In Burton, J.A. (ed.), The Atlas of Endangered Species. Macmillan.

Scottish Environmental Consultants (1991). Edinburgh's Old Railway Walks. Lothian Regional Council. [I designed and wrote two educational leaflets on the history and natural history of these walkways.]

Droop, S.J.M. (1988). The work of the IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre at Kew and the forthcoming Centres of Plant Diversity book. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard., 25, 465-469.

Droop, S.J.M. (1987). Floristics and Vegetation. In: Jenkins, M. (ed.), An Environmental Profile of Madagascar. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.

Droop, S. (1987). A portrait of Colin Baxter. Scottish Book Collector. Nov./Dec. [An article about the life and work of Scottish landscape photographer Colin Baxter.]

Droop, S.J.M. (1986). Revisions of the genera Kniphofia, Calochortus, Veratrum, Brodiaea, Dichelostemma, Triteleia, Zigadenus (Liliaceae). In Walters, S.M. et al., The European Garden Flora, vol. 1, Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae - Alismataceae-Iridaceae. CUP.

Davis, S., Droop, S.J.M. et al. (1986). Plants in Danger: what do we know? IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. [I compiled about a quarter of the whole book, edited and proofread the whole book for consistency and style, and chose the illustration for the cover.]

IUCN/WWF Plants Campaign and Programme (1984). Fact sheets. [I wrote and produced a series of fact sheets for use by media on various aspects of the plant kingdom and its conservation.]

Droop, S.J.M. (1983). Revisions of the genera Peucedanum and Lefebvrea (Umbelliferae). In Troupin, G. (ed.), Flore du Rwanda, vol. 1. 570-575, 603.

Droop, S.J.M. (in press?). Revisions of the genera Peucedanum and Lefebvrea (Umbelliferae). In Flora of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa and Uppsala.

My contribution primarily editorial or as a research assistant

Burkill, H.M. (1985-1995). Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, 2nd ed. Vol. 1: 1985; vol. 2: 1994; vol. 3: 1995. [I inserted typesetting codes into the manuscript for vols 2 and 3, and sub-edited for spelling and consistency.]

Pennington, T.D. (1991). The genera of Sapotaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [I edited the book and prepared a detailed index of plant names.]

Botanical Society of Scotland (1991). Scotland's Threatened Plants. Proceedings of a conference held in October 1989. [I edited some of the contributed papers for content, relevance, spelling, consistency, etc. and marked them up for typesetting.]

Turnbull Jeffrey Partnership (1990). Environmental Statement: Anglo-Scottish Interconnector Reinforcement. Scottish Power. [I designed, costed, edited and produced the whole document (c.200 A3 pages), including buying print and associated services.]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1990). World Plant Conservation Bibliography. [I proofread the whole bibliography of some 11,000 references for spelling and consistency, including some foreign languages; then made the resulting corrections to the computerized database of references in preparation for its publication.]

Moffat, A. & Baxter, C. (1989). Remembering Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Colin Baxter Photography. [I helped develop the concept, planned some aspects of the layout, edited the text and advised on the design.]

Baxter, C. & Crumley, J. (1988). St Kilda: a Portrait of Britain's Remotest Island Landscape. Colin Baxter Photography. [I commissioned the author, developed the concept, designed the book, edited and proofread the text, and wrote the promotional and jacket blurbs.]

Townsend, C.C. (1987). Notes on Peucedanum (Umbelliferae) and allied genera in Central and East Africa. Kew Bulletin, 42, 587-604. [I worked with the author making several taxonomic decisions including Physotrichia muriculata Townsend & Droop comb. nov.; he honoured me by describing a new species Lefebvrea droopii, the novelty of which I had established previously but not published.]

1986-1987. I designed and edited (including some proofreading and production work) several business and management books for Gower Publishing Group including, among several others: The Gower Handbook of Management (Lock and Farrow); Handbook of Management Skills (Stewart); Handbook of Project Management (Lock); Selecting Colour for Print (Danger); Selecting Colour for Packaging (Danger); Urban Flood Protection Benefits (Parker et al.); Spreadsheet Marketing (West); The Art of Tendering (Marsh); Achieving Change (Lupton and Tanner).

Huxley, A. (1984). Green Inheritance. Gaia/Collins. [I rewrote and edited parts of several chapters.]

Tett, P. & Wallis, A. (1978). The general annual cycle of chlorophyll standing crop in Loch Creran. J. Ecol., 66, 227-239. [I collected research material and prepared the graphs, artwork and map for publication.] 

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