Austin Mast
American botanist and academic
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::summary American botanist and academic ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Austin R. Mast |
| workplaces | Florida State University |
| alma_mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| :: |
| name = Austin R. Mast | workplaces = Florida State University | alma_mater = University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 a 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.
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, Collaborating with Australian botanist Kevin Thiele, he subsequently transferred all Dryandra taxa to Banksia, publishing over 120 taxonomic names in the process. The change has been adopted by the Western Australian Herbarium, although has met with some controversy.
He has previously worked on the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project, which created 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.
Taxa named by Mast
References
References
- "Dr. Austin Mast". Faculty and Research, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University.
- Mast, Austin R.. (2005). "An Assessment of Old and New DNA sequence evidence for the Paraphyly of Banksia with respect to Dryandra (Proteaceae)". [[Australian Systematic Botany]].
- Mast, Austin R. and [[Kevin Thiele]]. (2007). "The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae)". [[Australian Systematic Botany]].
- Thiele, Kevin. (20 May 2008). "Why dryandras have changed their name". Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australian Herbarium.
- O'neill, Graeme. (14 September 2009). "Feature: Blooming controversy". IDG Communications.
- "Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project".
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