Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Integrative Biology


Faculty URL
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/people/mishler.html

Research Group
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab

Email
bmishler@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-6810

Fax
(510) 643-6264


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Research Expertise and Interest
evolutionary biology, development, ecology, systematics, phylogeny, comparative genomics, green plants, bryophytes, mosses, reproductive biology, phylogenetics, chloroplast DNA, classification, species concepts, biodiversity, Darwin

Research Description
Brent Mishler's research interests are in the systematics, evolution, and ecology of bryophytes, as well as in the phylogeny of green plants.? He is?also interested in more general topics involving the theoretical basis of systematic and evolutionary biology, such as phylogenetic methods and the nature of species.? He has?been heavily involved in developing electronic resources to present plant taxonomic and distributional information to the public, and applications of these data to conservation concerns through the development of new "spatial phylogenetic" tools for studying biodiversity and endemism using large-scale phylogenies and collection data in a geographic and statistical framework.? Current projects include: (1) spatial phylogenetic studies of the floras of Australia, Chile, and California; and (2) integrated systematic, evolutionary, and ecological studies of the diverse dryland moss genus?Syntrichia, specifically focused on desiccation tolerance and reproductive biology.
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