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Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., Director
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

Engelmann Professor of Botany, Washington University, St. Louis
Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Adjunct Professor of Biology, St. Louis University

office phone: + 1-314-577-5111
fax: +1-314-577-9595
email: praven@nas.edu

Ph.D. in Plant Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 1960
A.B. in Botany with highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1957

General Research Interests

  • Plant systematics, especially Onagraceae and Myrtales
  • Plant biogeography
  • Phytogeography
  • Tropical floristics and conservation

    Research Emphases
  • Plant systematics (including taxonomy)
  • Evolutionary theory and biosystematics
  • Plant reproductive/pollination biology
  • Biogeography (especially southern continents)
  • Biodiversity, biotic surveys, and database policy issues

    Selected Publications
  • Butterflies and plants: a study in coevolution. Evolution 18: 586-603 (with P.R. Ehrlich). 1965.
  • Origin and relationships of the California flora. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 72: 1-134 (with D.I. Axelrod). 1978.
  • A Strategy for Sampling Neotropical Forests (with Oliver L. Phillips). Pp. 141-165 in A.C. Gibson (editor), Neotropical Biodiversity and Conservation. University of California. 1996.
  • Environment. Saunders College Publishing, Pennsylvania. v + 569 pp. (with L. Berg and G. Johnson). 1993; 1995 Version. 1995; Second Edition. 1997.
  • Biology of Plants. Worth Publishers, Inc., New York. xi + 706 pp. (with H. Curtis). 1970; Second Edition. (with R. Evert and H. Curtis). 1976; Third Edition. 1981; Fourth Edition. (with R. Evert and S. E. Eichhorn). 1986; (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German editions also published.). Fifth Edition. 1992; Sixth Edition, 1998.
  • Biological Extinction: Its Scope and Meaning for Us (with Jeffrey A. McNeely). Pp. 13-32 in L. Guruswamy & J. A. McNeely (editors), Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies. Duke University Press, Durham, NC. 1998.
  • Seeing the World as It Really Is: Global Stability and Environmental Change (with Joel Cracraft). Pp. 287-298 in Cracraft, Joel and Francesca T. Grifo (editos), The Living Planet in Crisis. Columbia University Press, New York. 1999.
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