The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

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DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES

Forbes who received the Plant Diversity Devi Prasad and Animal Diversity Avinash Potluri Prizes, Crystal Scott who received the Plant Form Sasikala Potluri Prize, Sashell Nelson who received the Plant Physiology Lloyd Coke Prize, Nicholas Lee who received the 2nd year Zoology Vincent Hugh McKie Prize and Zionté Baptiste who received the Ivan Goodbody Prize for Marine Biology. PUBLICATIONS The ongoing effort by the Department, through the Research and Publication Committee, to improve the quantity and quality of scholarly output continued. New research activities and collaborations with internal and external stakeholders were initiated and rekindled. The list of scholary outputs during the reporting period is presented below. Book • Benkeblia, N. (2023). Climate Change and Agriculture: Perspectives, Sustain- ability and Resilience, Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 496 p. https://www.wiley. com/en-us/Climate+Change+and+Agriculture:+Perspectives,+Sustainabili- ty+and+Resilience-p-9781119789772. Book Chapters • Vandebroek I (2023) Traveling traditions: Dominican ethnobotany in service of caring for the community. In : Decolonizing Paradise: A Radical Ethnography of Environmental Stewardship in the Caribbean , ed. Rosalina Diaz, 203–230. New York: Peter Lang, 318 pp. Published: 9 February 2023. • Imran, Benkeblia, N., Amanullah, and Al-Tawaha, A. (2023). Climate Change and Agriculture: State of the Art, Challenges, and Perspectives In: Climate Change and Agriculture: Perspectives, Sustainability and Resilience. N. Ben- keblia (Ed.) . Wiley & Sons Publisher, Chichester, pp. 1–27. • Al-Tawaaha, A.R.M.S., Khanoum, S., Benkeblia, N ., Amanullah, Imran, Khalid S., Al-Tawaaha, A., Mondal, M., Odat, N., Dey, A., Alimad, N., Thangadurai, D., Jeyabalan Sangeetha, J., Islam, S. and Shatnawi, M. (2023). Adapting crops to climate change. In: Climate Change and Agriculture: Perspectives, Sustain- ability and Resilience. N. Benkeblia (Ed.). Wiley & Sons Publisher, Chichester, pp. 53–77. • Al-Tawaha, A.M.S., Mrabet, R., Banayati, M., Santhosh, B., Benkeblia, N., Imran, Amanullah, Khalid, S. and Al-Tawaha, A.R., Alatrash, H., Jabbour, Y., Dey, A., Thangadurai, D., Sangeetha, J. and Islam, S. (2023). Role of biotech- nology in climate-resilient agriculture. In: Climate Change and Agriculture: Perspectives, Sustainability and Resilience. N. Benkeblia (Ed.). Wiley & Sons Publisher, Chichester, pp. 78–94.

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