Will C. McClatchey
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany
M.S., Bringham Young University, 1993
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1996
mcclatch@hawaii.edu
www.botany.hawaii.edu/mcclatchey/
Will C. McClatchey

Research Interests

My continuing research includes studies of: The flora, etnobotany, and prehistory of the Solomon Islands and the Rotuma islands; Polynesian and melanesian ethnobotany/ economic botany; Theoretical ethnobotany; Educational opportunities in Economic Botany; Morphology-based cladistic relationships of the Calamoideae; Evolutionary trends in Arecaceae, and palm and monocot systematics in general; and Theoretical systematics.

My growing research goals and interests lie in exploration of the reltively unstudied cultures and plants of the western Solomon Islands.

  

Selected Publications

McClatchey, Will 1999. Introductory Ethnobotany. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 180 pp. In press.
McClatchey, Will 1999. Introductory Ethnobotany Laboratory Manual. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 86 pp. In press.
McClatchey, Will 1999. Preliminary analysis of biodiversity (botanical) transects passing through the Solomon Islands. In Symposium on Biodiversity in the pacific: Proceedings of the IX Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 15-19 November 1998, Academia Sinica, Taipei. In press.
McClatchey, Will and Valerie McClatchey. 1999. One-way bridges: Ethical dilemmas faced by Polynesian healers who share their knowledge. In Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge: An Exploration of Issues Involving Indigenous peoples, Conservation, Development and Ethnoscience. Edited by Alexandra Paul and Charles peters. new York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. In press.
McClatchey, Will 1999. The history of Bananas and Plantains. In The Cambridge History and Culture of Food and Nutrition part II. The History of the Most Important Plant Foods. edited by K.F. Kiple, K.C. Ornelas, and H.M. Tarver. Cambridge University press. In press.
McClatchey, Will, Alexandra Paul, Trish Flaster and Valerie Mcclatchey 1999. An Evaluation of Educational Trends in Economic Botany. Centre for International ethnomedicinal Education and Research: Ethnobotany Educational Publication Series 1:1-21.
McClatchey, Will 1998. Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Characters of Metroxylon Section Coelococcus (Palmae) and Resulting Implications for Studies of Other Calamoideae Genera. Pp. 285-306 in Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Edited by Andrew Henderson. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden.
McClatchey, Will 1998. A New Species of the Genus Metroxylon (Arecaceae) from Western Samoa. Novon, volume 8:252-258.
McClatchey, Will 1996. A revision of the genus Metroxylon section Coelococcus (Arecaceae). Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. October 1996. pp.252.
McClatchey, Will 1996. The Ethnopharmacopoeia of Rotuma. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol. 50 pp 147-156.
N'Yeurt, Antoine D.R., Will McClatchey and Hans Schmidt 1996. A Bibliography of the Island of Rotuma. South pacific marine Studies Technical publication, Suva, Fiji.