Austin Mast

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Austin R. Mast is a research botanist. Born in 1972, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. He is currently an assistant professor within the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University (FSU), and has been director of FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium since August 2003.[1]

One of his main areas of research is the phylogenetics of Grevilleoideae, a subfamily of Proteaceae. In 2005 he showed the genus Banksia to be paraphyletic with respect to Dryandra,[2] He subsequently transferred all Dryandra taxa to Banksia, publishing over 120 taxonomic names in the process.[3]

He has recently started work on the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project, which seeks to create a repository of annotated high-resolution digital images of plant specimens within the East Gulf Coastal Plain, a region with a very high diversity of rare and endangered plants.[4]

The standard author abbreviation A.R.Mast is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dr. Austin Mast. Faculty and Research, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University. Retrieved on 2007-03-22.
  2. ^ Mast, Austin R.; Eric H. Jones and Shawn P. Havery (2005). "An Assessment of Old and New DNA sequence evidence for the Paraphyly of Banksia with respect to Dryandra (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany 18 (1): 75–88. CSIRO Publishing / Australian Systematic Botany Society. doi:10.1071/SB04015. 
  3. ^ Mast, Austin R. and Kevin Thiele (2007). "The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany 20: 63–71. doi:10.1071/SB06016. 
  4. ^ Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
  5. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 
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