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Tinde van Andel
Professor by special appointment History of botany and gardens
- Name
- Prof.dr. T.R. van Andel
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- t.r.van.andel@biology.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4951-1894
As an ethnobotanist, I study traditional plant use. Together with several PhD students, postdoc fellows and MSc students, I am involved in a number of research projects.
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Professor by special appointment History of botany and gardens
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- Householder J.E., Wittmann F., Schöngart J., Piedade M.T.F., Junk W.J., Latrubesse E.M., Quaresma A.C., Demarchi L.O., Lobo de S G., Aguiar D.P.P., Assis R.L., Lopes A., Parolin P., Leao do Amaral I., Coelho L.S., Almeida Matos F.D. de, Lima Filho D.A., Salomao R.P., Castilho C.V., Guevara-Andino J.E., Carim M.J.V., Philips O.L., Cárdenas López D., Magnusson W.E., Sabatier D., Revilla J.D.C., Molino J.F., Irume M.V., Martins M.P., Guimaras J.R.D.S., Ramos J.F., Rodrigues D.J., Bánki O.S., Peres C.A., Pitman N.C.A., Hawes J.E., Almeida E.J., Babosa L.F., Cavalheiro L., Dos Santos M.C.V., Luize B.G., Novo E.M.M.L., Núnez Vargas P., Silva T.S.F., Venticinque E.M., Manzatto A.G., Reis N.F.C., Terborgh J., Casula K.R., Costa F.R.C., Honorio Coronado E.N., Monteagudo Mendoza A., Montero J.C., Feldpausch T.R., Aymard C G.A., Baraloto C., Castano Arboleda N., Engel J., Petronielli P., Zartman C.E., Killeen T.J., Rincón L.M., Marimon B.S., Marimon-Junior B.H., Schietti J., Sousa T.R., Vasquez R., Mostacedo B., Dantas do Amaral D., Catellano H., Medeiros M.B., Simon M.F., Andrade A., Carmargo J.L., Laurance W.F., Laurance S.G.W., Farias E.S., Lopes M.A., Magalhaes J.L.L., Mendonca Nascimento H.E., Queiroz H.L., Brienen R., Stevenson P.R., Araujo-Mrakami A., Baker T.R., Cintra B.B.L., Feitosa Y.O., Mogollón H.F., Noronha J.C., Barbosa F.R., de Sá Carpanedo R., Duivenvoorden J.F., Silman M.R., Ferreira L.V., Levis C., Lozada J.R., Comiskey J.A., Draper F.C., Toledo J.J., Damasco G., Dávilla N., Garcia-Villacorta R., Vicentini A., Cornejo Valverde F., Alonso A., Arroyo L., Dallmeier F., Gomes V.H.F. Jimenez E.M., Neill D., Penuela Mora M.C., Carvalho F.A., Coelho de Souza F., Feeley K.J., Gribel R., Pansonato M.P., Rios Paredes M., Barlow J., Berenguer E., Dexter K.G., Ferreira J., Fine P.V.A., Guedes M.S., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I., Licona J.C., Pennington T., Villa Zegarra B.E., Vos V.A., Cerón C., Fonty E., Henkel T.W., Maas P., Pos E., Silveira M., Stropp J., Thomas R., Daly D., Miliken W., Pardo Molina G., Vieira I.C.G., Albuaquerque B.W., Campelo W., Emilio T., Fuentes A., Klitgaard B., Marcelo Pena J.L., Souza P.F., Tello J.S., Vriesendorp C., Chave J., Di Fiore A., Hilário R.R., Pereira L.O., Phillips J.F., Rivas-Torres G., Andel T.R. van, Hildebrand P. von, Balee W., Babosa E.M., Bonates L.C.M., Doza H.P.D., Gómez R.Z., Gonzales T., Gonzales G.P.G., Hoffman B., Junqueira A.B., Malhi Y., Miranda I.P.A., Mozombite-Pinto L.F., Prieto A., Ruda A., Ruschel A.R., Silva N., Vela C.I.A., Zent S., Zent E.L., Cano A., Carrero Márquez Y.A., Correa D.F., Costa J.B.P., Flores B.M., Galbraith D., Holmgren M., Kalamandeen M., Nascimento M.T., Oliveira A.A., Ramirez-Anguo H., Rocha M., Scudeller V.V., Sierra R., Tirado M., Umana M.N., Heijden G. van der, Vilanova Torre E., Ahuite Reategui M.A., Baider C., Balslev H., Cárdenas S., Cases L.F., Farfan-Rios W., Ferreira C., Linares-Palomina R., Mendoza C., Mesones I., Parada G.A., Torres-Lezama A., Urrgeo Giraldo L.E., Villarroel D., Zagt R., Alexiades M.N., Oliveira E.A. de, Garcia-Cabrera K., Hernandez L., Palacios Cuenca W., Pansini S., Pauletto D., Ramirez Arevalo F., Sampaio A.F., Valderrama Sandoval E.H., Valenzuela Gamarra L. & Steege H. ter (2024), One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains, Nature Ecology and Evolution 8(5): 901-911.
- Pironon S., Ondo I., Diazgranados M., Allkin R., Baquero A.C., Cámara-Leret R., Canteiro C., Dennehy-Carr Z., Govaerts R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A.J., Lemmens R., Milliken W., Nesbitt M., Patmore K., Schmelzer G., Turner R.M., Andel T.R. van, Ulian T., Antonelli A. & Willis K.J. (2024), The global distribution of plants used by humans, Science 383(6680): 293-297.
- Steege H. ter, Banki O.S., Maas P. & Andel T.R. van et al. (2024), Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities, Nature 625(7996): 728-734.
- Jia Y., Wang M., Lambers P.H. & Andel T.R. van (2024), The catalogue of the Westhoff collection of Chinese materia medica (c. 1870): evidence of interaction between a Chinese medicine practitioner and the Dutch in Indonesia, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 318(part B): 116987.
- Pombo Geertsma I., Linden C.F.H. van der, Vickery R. & Andel T.R. van (2024), Why are plants named after witches and devils in north-western Europe?, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 325: 117804.
- Offerhaus A., Andel T.R. van & Stefanaki A. (2023), Not just a garden of simples: arranging the growing floristic diversity in the Leiden Botanical Garden (1594–1740). In: Baldassarri F. (Ed.), Plants in 16th and 17th century: botany between medicine and science. Medical Traditions no. 8. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 99-120.
- Holt A.M., Bredero R., Gomes A., Serke A., Louis E., Louis N., Gomes K., Suttie I., Louis V., Rybka K. & Andel T. van (2023), Ethnobotanical research under the COVID-19 pandemic: assessing a remote method for documenting Indigenous plant-related knowledge, Ethnobotany Research and Applications 25: 1-25.
- Offerhaus A., Stefanaki A. & Andel T.R. van (2023), The "true Boerhaave herbarium": an analysis of the specimens of Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) contained in the Van Royen collection at naturalis, Botany Letters 170(1): 99-109.
- Andel T.R. van, Francozo M & Alcantara-Rodriguez M. (2023), Searching for Copaiba: tracing the quest for a wound-healing oil by early explorers in Brazil. In: Françozo M. (Ed.), Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil. New York: Routledge. 77-104.
- Masters S., Anthoons B., Madesis P., Saroja S.G., Schermer M., Gerritsen W., Karahan A., Verdoes R., Schwallier R., Andel T.R. van, Boer H. de & Gravendeel B. (2022), Quantifying an online wildlife trade using a web crawler, Biodiversity and Conservation 31(3): 855-869.
- Jia Y., Wang M. & Andel T.R. van (2022), Revisiting traditional Chinese materia medica from European historical collections and perspective for current use, Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine 12(2): 206-216.
- Andel T.R. van, Vos R.A., Michels E. & Stefanaki A. (2022), Sixteenth-century tomatoes in Europe: who saw them, what they looked like, and where they came from, PeerJ 10: e12790.
- Pombo Geertsma I., Hoeven D. van der & Andel T. van (2022), Traditional Aucan knowledge on fish and plants eaten by fish along the Tapanahoni River, Suriname, Ethnobiology and Conservation 11: 23.
- Stefanaki A., Tilmann W. & Andel T.R. van (2022), Tracing the introduction history of the tulip that went wild (Tulipa sylvestris) in sixteenth-century Europe, Scientific Reports 12: 9786.
- Groot W. de, Andel T.R. van, Kool A., Hazenberg M., Kjesrud K. & Teixidor-Toneu I. (2022), The 16th-19th century Soundtoll Registers Online: uncovering traded plant diversity between the North and the Baltic Seas, Economic Botany 76: 285-299.
- Klooster C.I.E.A. van 't, Haabo V., Berg M. van den, Stoffelen P. & Andel T.R. van (2022), African elements in Saramaccan Maroon plant names in Suriname, Botany 100(2): 141-157.
- Jong M. de, Stefanaki A. & Andel T.R. van (2022), Mediterranean specimens of the Prussian Botanist Jacob Breyne (1637–1697) in the Van Royen Herbarium, Leiden, The Netherlands, Botany Letters 169(2): 294-301.
- Andel T.R. van & et al. (2022), Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates, Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(1): 49-69.
- Jong M. de, Duistermaat H., Stefanaki A. & Andel T.R. van (2022), The book herbaria of Jacob Breyne (1637-1697) in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands), Blumea: Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants 67(2): 77-96.
- Grimaldi I.M., Andel T.R. van & Denham T.P. (2022), Looking beyond history: tracing the dispersal of the Malaysian complex of crops to Africa, American Journal of Botany 109(2): 193-208.
- Geertsma I.P., Françozo M., Andel T. van & Alcantara-Rodriguez M. (2021), What’s in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 17: 9.
- Gallois S.L., Heger T., Henry A.G. & Andel T.R. van (2021), The importance of choosing appropriate methods for assessing wild food plant knowledge and use: a case study among the Baka in Cameroon, PLoS ONE 16(2): e0247108.
- Offerhaus A., Haas E. de, Porck H., Kardinaal A., Ek R., Pokorni O. & Andel T.R. van (2021), The Zierikzee Herbarium: contents and origins of an enigmatic 18th century herbarium, Blumea: Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants 66(1): 1-52.
- Knippers R.H.M., Gallois S.L. & Andel T.R. van (2021), Commercialization of Aframomum spp. in Africa: a systematic review of literature and supporting botanical vouchers, Economic Botany 75: 76-91.
- Gallois S., Andel T.R. van & Pranskaityté G. (2021), Alcohol, drugs and sexual abuse in Cameroon's rainforest, Social Science & Medicine 277: 113929.
- Stefanaki A.,Tilmann W., Porck H., Bertin A. & Andel T.R. van (2021), The early book herbaria of Leonhard Rauwolf (S. France and N. Italy, 1560–1563): new light on a plant collection from the ‘golden age of botany’, Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 32: 449-461.
- Stefanaki A. & Andel T.R. van (2021), Mediterranean aromatic herbs and their culinary use. In: Galanakis C.M. (Ed.), Aromatic herbs in food: bioactive compounds, processing, and applications: Academic Press. 93-121.
- Jia Y., Lei L., Luo X., Zhao Z., Wang M. & Andel T.R. van (2021), Analysis of historical changes in traditional Chinese medicine based on an Indonesian collection of Chinese materia medica from c.1870, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 269: 113714.
- Odonne G., Tareau M.A. & Andel T.R. van (2021), Geopolitics of bitterness: deciphering the history and cultural biogeography of Quassia amara L, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 267: 113546.
- Walter T., Ghorbani A. & Andel T.R. van (2021), The emperor’s herbarium: the German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East, History of Science 60(1): 130-151.
- Alcàntara-Rodríguez M., Francozo M. & Andel T.R. van (2021), Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati, Scientific Reports 11: 19736.
- Ramdayal M.M., Maat H. & Andel T.R. van (2021), The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 17: 60.
- Gallois S.L., Heger T., Andel T.R. van, Sonké B. & Henry A.G. (2020), From Bush Mangoes to Bouillon Cubes: Wild Plants and Diet among the Baka, Forager-Horticulturalists from Southeast Cameroon, Economic Botany 74: 46-58.
- Masters S., Andel T.R. van, Boer H.J. de, Heijungs R. & Gravendeel B. (2020), Patent analysis as a novel method for exploring commercial interest in wild harvested species, Biological Conservation 243: 108454.
- Gallois S., Andel T. van, Heger T., Sonké B. & Henry A.G. (2020), Comparing Apples and Pears: the Hidden Diversity of Central African Bush Mangoes (Irvingiaceae), Economic Botany 74: 178-194.
- Steege H. ter, Banki O.S., Andel T.R. van & (2020), Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora, Scientific Reports 10: 10130.
- Alcantara Rodriguez M., Pombo Geerstma I., De Campos Françozo M. & Andel T.R. van (2020), Marcgrave and Piso's plants for sale: The presence of plant species andnames from the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) in contemporaryBrazilian markets, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 259: 112911.
- Veldman S., Ju Y., Otieno J.N., Abihudi S., Posthouwer C., Gravendeel B., Andel T.R. van & Boer H.J. de (2020), DNA barcoding augments conventional methods for identification of medicinal plant species traded at Tanzanian markets, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 250: 112495.
- Vandebroek I., Pieroni A., Stepp J.R., Hanazaki N., Ladio A., Nóbrega Alves R.R., Picking D., Delgoda R., Maroyi A., Andel T.R. van, Quave C.L., Paniagua-Zambrana N.Y., Bussmann R.W., Odonne G., Abbassi A.M., Albuquerque U.P., Baker J., Kutz S., Timsina S., Shigeta M., Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira T., Hurrell J.A., Arenas P.M., Puentes J.P., Hugé J., Yesil Y., Jean Pierre L., Olango T.M. & Dahdouh-Guebas F. (2020), Reshaping the future of ethnobiology research after the COVID-19 pandemic, Nature Plants 6: 723-730.
- Jia Y., Sun M., Shi Y., Zhu Z., Wijk E. van, Wijk R. van, Andel T.R. van & Wang M. (2020), A comparative study of aged and contemporary Chinese herbal materials by using delayed luminescence technique , Chinese Medicine 15: 6.
- Jia Y., Lei L., Luo X., Zhao Z., Wang M. & Andel T.R. van (2020), Analysis of historical changes in traditional Chinese medicine based on an Indonesian collection of Chinese materia medica from c. 1870, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 269: 113714.
- Stefanaki A., Porck H., Grimaldi I.M., Thurn N., Pugliano V., Kardinaal A., Salemink J., Thijsse G., Chavannes-Mazel C., Kwakkel E. & Andel T.R. van (2019), Breaking the silence of the 500-year-old smiling garden of everlasting flowers: the En Tibi book herbarium, PLoS ONE 14(6): e0217779.
- Chatterjee S.A. & Andel T.R. van (2019), Lost grains and forgotten vegetables from Japan: the Seikei Zusetsu agricultural catalogue (1793-1804), Economic Botany 73(3): 375–389.
- Alcantara-Rodriguez M., Francozo M. & Andel T.R. van (2019), Plant Knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648): Retentions of Seventeenth-Century Plant Use in Brazil, Economic Botany 73(3): 390-404.
- Gernaat H.B.P.E., Heuvel J. van den, Stokvis F., Barten F. & Andel T.R. van (2019), Life history in Suriname and taxonomic status of Heraclides garleppi lecerfi (Papilionidae: Papilioninae), Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 73(3): 162-172.
- Applequist W.L., Brinckmann J.A., Cunningham A.B., Hart R.E., Heinrich M., Katerere D.R. & Andel T.R. van (2019), Scientists’ Warning on Climate Change and Medicinal Plants, Planta Medica 86(1): 10-18.
- Giallombardo F. & Andel T.R. van (2019), Paolo Boccone and the visual communication of pre-Linnean botany. A comparison between his Leiden herbarium, Paris autoprint and published Icones (1674), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 74: 15-26.
- Andel T.R. van, Mazumdar J., Barth E.N.T. & Veldkamp J.F. (2018), Possible Rumphius specimens detected in Paul Hermann's Ceylon herbarium (1672–1679) in Leiden, The Netherlands, Blumea: Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants 63(1): 11-19.
- Andel T.R. van & Bart E.N.T. (2018), Paul Hermann's Ceylon Herbarium (1672-1679) at Leiden, the Netherlands, Taxon 67(5): 977-988.
- Stefanaki A., Thijsse G., Uffelen G. van, Eurlings M.C.M. & Andel T.R. van (2018), The En Tibi herbarium, a 16th century Italian treasure, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 187(3): 397–427.
- Veldman S., Kim S.J., Andel T.R. van, Font M.B., Bone R.E., Bytebier B., Chuba D., Gravendeel B., Martos F., Mpatwa G., Ngugi G., Vinya R., Wightman N., Yokoya K. & Boer H.J. de (2018), Trade in Zambian Edible Orchids - DNA Barcoding Reveals the Use of Unexpected Orchid Taxa for Chikanda, Genes 9(12): 595.
- Andel T.R. van, Scholman A. & Beumer W.G.M. (2018), Icones Plantarum Malabaricarum: early 18th century botanical drawings of medicinal plants from colonial Ceylon, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 222: 11-20.
- Costa R.M.S., Andel T.R. van, Pavone P. & Pulvirenti S. (2018), The pre-Linnaean herbarium of Paolo Boccone (1633-1704) kept in Leiden (the Netherlands) and its connections with the imprinted one in Paris, Plant Biosystems 152(3): 489-500.
- Ghorbani A., Wieringa J.J., Boer H.J. de, Porck H., Kardinaal A. & Andel T.R. van (2018), Botanical and floristic composition of the Historical Herbarium of Leonhard Rauwolf collected in the Near East (15731575), Taxon 67(3): 565-580.
- Klooster C.I.E.A. van 't., Haabo V., Ruysschaert S., Vossen T.E. & Andel T.R. van (2018), Herbal bathing: an analysis of variation in plant use among Saramaccan and Aucan Maroons in Suriname, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 14: .
- Veldman S., Gravendeel B., Otieno J.N., Lammers Y., Duijm E., Nieman A., Bytebier B., Ngugi G., Martos F., Andel T.R. van & Boer H.J. de (2017), High-throughput sequencing of African chikanda cake highlights conservation challenges in orchids, Biodiversity and Conservation 26(9): 2029-2046.
- Ghorbani A., De Boer H.J., Maas P.J.M. & Van Andel T.R. (2017), The typification of two Linnaean plant names based on illustrations published by Leonhard Rauwolf in 1583, Taxon 66(5): 1204–1207.
- Vossen T.E., Towns A.M., Ruysschaert S., Quiroz D. & Andel T.R. van (2014), Consequences of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Medicinal Plant Selection: Plant Use for Cultural Bound Syndromes Affecting Children in Suriname and Western Africa, PLOS One 9(11): e112345.
- Bálcazar Vargas M.P., Penuela-Mora M.C., Zuidema P.A. & Andel T.R. van (2012), The quest for a suitable host: size distributions of host trees and secondary hemiepiphytes search strategie, Biotropica 44(1): 19-26.
- Andel T.R. van, Veldman S., Maas P., Thijsse G. & Eurlings M.C.M. (2012), The forgotten Hermann Herbarium: A 17th century collection of useful plants from Suriname, Taxon 61(6): 1296-1304.
- Andel T.R. van, Mitchell S., Volpato G., Vandebroek I., Swier J., Ruysschaert S., Rentería Jiménez C.A. & Raes N. (2012), In search of the perfect aphrodisiac: Parallel use of bitter tonics in West Africa and the Caribbean, 143: 840-850.
- Andel T.R. van, Dobreff J. & Maas P.J.M. (2012), Ethnobotanical notes from Daniel Rolander's Diarium Surinamicum (1754-1756): are these plants still used in Suriname today?, Taxon 61(4): 852-863.
- Andel T.R. van (2011), Kwetsbare bomen en bosgeesten: geloof in geesten leidt tot natuurbescherming, La Chispa: Magazine over Latijns-Amerika en de Cariben 358: 19-20.
- Andel T.R. van & Ruysschaert S. (2011), Medicinale en rituele planten van Suriname. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
- Andel T.R. van (2011), Kwetsbare bomen en bosgeesten: geloof in geesten leidt tot natuurbescherming, La Chispa: Magazine over Latijns-Amerika en de Cariben 358: 19-20.
- Bálcazar Vargas M.P., Penuela-Mora M.C., Zuidema P.A. & Andel T.R. van (2011), The quest for a suitable host: size distributions of host trees and secondary hemiepiphytes search strategy, Biotropica : .
- Ruysschaert S., Andel T.R. van, Van de Putte K. & Van Damme P. (2009), Bathe the baby to make it strong, healthy: Plant use and child care among Saramaccan Maroons in Suriname, 121(1): 148-170.