Michael Jeffrey Balick

Michael J. Balick
Born (1952-07-21) July 21, 1952 (age 72)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Delaware
Harvard University
Known forPlants, People, and Culture (1996, 2020)[4][5]
Scientific career
InstitutionsNew York Botanical Garden[1]
Thesis The biology and economics of the Oenocarpus-Jessenia (Palmae) complex[2]  (1980)
Doctoral advisorRichard Evans Schultes[3]
Author abbrev. (botany)Balick

Michael Jeffrey Balick (born 1952) is an American ethnobotanist, economic botanist, and pharmacognosist,[6] known as a leading expert on medicinal and toxic plants, biocultural conservation and the plant family Arecaceae (palms).[1]

  1. ^ a b "Michael J. Balick, Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator, Institute of Economic Botany". New York Botanical Garden. (website with PDF links for more than 120 publications)
  2. ^ Balick, Michael J. (1980). "The biology and economics of the Oenocarpus-Jessenia (Palmae) complex". Hollis, Harvard University Library.
  3. ^ "Lawrence Memorial Award" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. 1 (2): 2. Fall 1979.
  4. ^ Marderosian, Ara der (1996). "Review of Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany by Michael J. Balick and Paul Alan Cox". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 71 (4): 572. doi:10.1086/419583.
  5. ^ Knelman, Fred H. (2000). "Reviewed work: Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany, Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan Cox". Peace Research. 32 (1): 92–94. JSTOR 23607689.
  6. ^ "Michael Balick". Graduate Center, City University of New York.