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Brent Mishler
Brent Mishler is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. He has been a professor at Cal since 1993, teaching about island biology, plant diversity, evolution, and phylogenetic analysis. He was a professor in the popular “Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands” course, where undergraduates spend the semester at the UC Berkeley Gump Station on Mo’orea in French Polynesia. He currently has research projects going on in Australia, the South Pacific, South Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and South America. He is thus a generalist in field biology, with extensive knowledge about many kinds of organisms, tropical and temperate.
Brent was also Director of the University and Jepson Herbaria on the Cal campus for 30 years—a natural history museum devoted to plants of all types, and with research programs spanning the globe (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu) from 1993 to 2023. One personal research specialty of his are mosses, plants that are small in stature but big in ecological importance and research interest, especially for studying desiccation-tolerance. He is also interested in more general topics involving the theoretical basis of systematic and evolutionary biology, such as the nature of species. He has been heavily involved in developing electronic resources to present taxonomic and distributional information to the public, and applications of these to conservation concerns.
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