Contact Information
Phone:(808) 956-6704
Fax: (808) 956-3923
Email: mcclatch@hawaii.edu

Graduate Faculty Memberships
Botany; Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Program; Center for Pacific Studies

• Conservation Ethnobiology
• Ethnobotanical Patterns of Cultural Adaptations to Plant Environments
• Southeast Asian Biogeography and Cultural History
• Austronesian Linguistics

Statement
Conservation of the earth is the highest priority facing our species today. This is not a question of priorities, it is a matter of imperatives. There are not enough resources in most places for all people to continue to maintain the lifestyles that they have come to enjoy or want to enjoy in the future.

Although some biologists have naively assumed that the solution is to simply lock up portions of the earth, restricting them from human access, research increasingly shows that human interaction with the environment is needed in most places for resources to be maintained and restored.

Conservation Ethnobiology is research and education focused on analysis of human engagement with the environment and identification of successful patterns that lead to conservation, resource development, and enhancement of biological and cultural systems.  

My current research projects are addressing:

1) hypotheses about how biocognosy (knowledge of biodiversity) is distributed across complex landscapes.

2) hypotheses about how human populations develop new knowledge about plants and how long it takes for people who are dependent upon an environment to become "indigenous" to a place.

3) differential cultural strategies for using plants and how this impacts the long-term management of key species and habitats that those species characterize. 

2007

• McClatchey, W. Two Ethnobotanists. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 5:95-96.

2005

• McClatchey, W. & Lisa X. Gollin. An Ethnobotany Research Training Workshop in Madagascar. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3:309-327.
• Rakotonandrasana, Stéphan Richard, Lisa X. Gollin & W. McClatchey. Ethnobotanical Research at Analalava, Madagascar: A Photo Essay. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3:391-403.
• McClatchey, W. & K. Winter. Publication of Ethnobotanical Research in Local Languages. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3:279-282.
• d) McClatchey, W. Bioprospecting and Ethnobotany Research. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3:189-190.
• c) McClatchey, W. What is Real Community Based Conservation? Ravintsara 3(2):3-4.
• b) McClatchey, W. Invention and Re-Invention of Knowledge. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3:109-111.
• a) McClatchey, W. Exorcizing Misleading Terms from Ethnobotany. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3:1-4.
• Bridges, K. & W. McClatchey. Complementing PABITRA High-Island Studies by Examining Terrestrial Plant Diversity in Atolls. Pacific Science 59:261-272.
• McClatchey, W. M.Q. Sirikolo, H. Boe, E. Biliki, & F. Votboc. A Proposal for PABITRA Study Area on Lauru Island, Western Solomon Islands. Pacific Science 59:213-240.

2004

• McClatchey, W, Harley Manner & Craig R. Elevitch. Metroxylon amicarium, M. paulcoxii, M. sagu, M. salomonense, M. vitiense, and M. warburgii (sago palms). Pp. 1-23 in Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry. November 2004. www.traditionaltree.org Permanent Agricultural Resources, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
• McClatchey, W., Randy Thaman & Sonia Juvik. Ethnobiodiversity Surveys of Human/Ecosystem Relationships. Pp. 159-196 in Biodiversity Assessment of Tropical Island Ecosystems. Edited by Dieter Mueller Dombois, Kim Bridges, and Curt Daehler, University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
• *McClatchey, W. Techniques for Collection of Plants Specimens and Associated Records. In PABITRA Research Protocol Manual edited by Dieter Mueller Dombois, Kim Bridges, and Curt Daehler, University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
• *McClatchey, W. Cultural Interactions with Palms in the Tropical Pacific Region. Palms & Cycads 85:26-30.

2003

• Salick, J., J. Alcorn, E. Anderson, C. Asa, W. Balee, M. Balick, S. Beckerman, B. Bennett, J. Caballero, G. Camilo, A.B. Cunningham, E. Elisabetsky, L. Emperaire, G. Estabrook, G. Fritz, L. Gross, E. Hunn, T. Johns, E. Luoga, G. Martin, W. McClatchey, J. Miller, P. Minnis, D. Moerman, M. Paletti, D. Pearsall, C. Ramirez-Sosa, J. Rashford, B. Schaal, D. Spooner, J. Stepp, M. Thomas, T. Ticktin, N. Turner, J. Xu. Intellectual Imperatives in Ethnobiology NSF Biocomplexity Workshop Report. Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis.
• McClatchey, W. & M. Thomas. Why Launch a New Journal? Ethnobotany Research and Applications 1:1-3.
• McClatchey, W. Diversity of Growth Forms and Uses in the Morinda citrifolia L. Complex. Pp. 5-10 in Proceedings of the 2002 Hawai‘i Noni Conference. Edited by Scot C. Nelson, University of Hawai‘i College of Tropical Agriculture, Honolulu.

2002

• McClatchey, W. Biogeographical Observation of Metroxylon Section Coelococcus. Pp. 119-126 in New Frontiers of Sago Palm Studies Proceedings of the International Symposium on SAGO (SAGO 2001) A New Bridge Linking South and North, Frontiers in Science Series No. 37 Edited by K. Kainuma, M. Okazaki, Y. Toyoda, & John E. Cecil. Universal Academy Press, Inc. Tokyo.
• McClatchey, W. From Polynesian Healers to Health Food Stores: Changing Ethnopharmacology of Morinda citrifolia. Journal of Integrative Cancer Therapy. 1(2): 110-120.

2001

• McClatchey, W. & Valerie McClatchey. 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, W. & Jodi Stevens. An Overview of Recent Developments in Bioprospecting and Pharmaceutical Development. Pp 17-45 in Development of Plant-Based Medicines: Conservation, Efficacy and Safety Edited by Praveen K. Saxena, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrcht, The Netherlands.
• *McClatchey, W. Legal "Fireworks": A Botanical Celebration. The Kukui Leaf 28(3):1-2.

2000

• *McClatchey, W. The History of Bananas and Plantains. Pp 175-180 in The Cambridge World History of Food Vol. I edited by K.F. Kiple & K.C. Ornelas,. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
• McClatchey W., Jon Mozena, Myknee Sirikolo, Jodi Stevens, Michael Wysong, & Piet Lincoln. Editors of Ririo - English Dictionary with Babatana equivalents, ethnobiological terminologies, and scientific names by Harry Truman Boe, Edison Biliki, Edwin Kaboke, Martin Love, Ester Nalatüti, Isaiah Poloso, Monica Qilazuka, Jonathan Takubala, & Frederick Vot’boc. University of New South Wales, Sydney.
• McClatchey, W., Randy Thaman, & Saula Vodonaivalu. A Preliminary Checklist of the Flora of Rotuma with Rotuman Names. Pacific Science 54:345-363.
• *McClatchey, W. & Jodi Stevens. How a Seacology Project is Born: Tales from the Solomon Islands. Seacology Fall 2000.
• McClatchey, W. The Future of Economic Botany. In Economic Botany: Past, Present and Future of Human Uses of Plants. Edited by Gail Wagoner. Proceedings of the 2000 Annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Columbia, South Carolina.

1999

• McClatchey, W., Alexandra Paul, Trish Flaster, & Valerie McClatchey. An Evaluation of Educational Trends in Economic Botany. Centre for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research: Ethnobotany Educational Publication Series 1:1-21
• *McClatchey, W. Introductory Ethnobotany. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 98 pp.
• *McClatchey, W. Introductory Ethnobotany Laboratory Manual. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 86 pp.
• *McClatchey, Will 1999. In the classroom: suggested elements of economic and ethnobotany courses and programs of study. Society for Economic Botany Newsletter 13:5-7.

1998

• *McClatchey, W. 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. A New Species of the Genus Metroxylon (Arecaceae) from Western Samoa. Novon 8:252-258.

1996

• McClatchey, W. The Ethnopharmacopoeia of Rotuma. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 50:147-156.
• McClatchey, W. A revision of the genus Metroxylon section Coelococcus (Arecaceae). Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
• *N'Yeurt, Antoine D.R., Will McClatchey, & Hans Schmidt. A Bibliography of the Island of Rotuma. South Pacific Marine Studies Technical Publication, Suva, Fiji.

1993

• McClatchey, W. The Traditional Medicinal System and Ethnopharmacopoeia of Rotuma. Masters Thesis. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
• McClatchey, W. Traditional use of Curcuma longa (Zingiberaceae) in Rotuma. Economic Botany 47:291-296.

1992

• McClatchey, W & Paul A. Cox. Use of the Sago Palm Metroxylon warburgii in the Polynesian Island, Rotuma. Economic Botany 46:305-309.
• *Nagle, Dale G., W. McClatchey & William H. Gerwick. New Glycosphingolipids from the Marine Sponge, Halichondria panicea. Journal of Natural Products 55:1013-1017.