Dan Crawford


dan crawford
  • Adjunct Research Associate - Botany

Contact Info

Haworth Hall
1200 Sunnyside Ave
Lawrence, KS 66045

Biography

Dr. Crawford is a plant systematist who studies the origin and evolution of plants growing on oceanic islands, especially members of the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1969
M.S., University of Iowa, 1966
B.A., University of Iowa, 1964

Research

Research Papers

Mesfin Tadesse and D. J. Crawford. 2014. The phytomelanin layer in traditional members of Bidens L. and Coreopsis L. and phylogeny of the Coreopsideae (Compositae). Nordic Jour. Bot. 32: 80-91.

Cho, M.-K, S. A. Yun, D. J. Crawford, A. Santos-Guerra and S.-C. Kim. 2013. Origin and evolution of woody sow-thistles in the Macarnesian Islands revisited: four decades after the revision of Sonchus  (Asteraceae). Vierea 41: 217-232.

Anderson, G. J., D. J. Crawford and G. Bernardello. 2013. The reproductive biology of island plants: the Juan Fernandez and Canary Islands. Vierea 41: 115-127.

Crawford, D. J., M. E. Mort, and J. K. Archibald. 2013. Tolpis santosii (Asteraceae: Cichorieae), a new species from La Palma, The Canary Islands. Vierea 41: 163-169.

Soto-Trejo, F., J. K. Kelly, J. K. Archibald, M. E. Mort, A. Santos-Guerra & D. J. Crawford. 2013. The genetics of self-compatibility and associated floral characters in Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Canary Islands. Inter. Jour. Plant Sci. 174: 171-178.

Soto-Trejo, F. G., G. Palamino, J. L. Viaalsenor and D. J. Crawford. Polyploidy in Asteraceae of the xerophytic scrub of the Ecological Reserve of the Pedregal of San Angel, Mexico City. Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 173: 211-229.

Knope, M. L., R. Pender, D. J. Crawford, and A. M. Wieczorek. 2013. Alien congeners are unlikely to hybridize with native Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae). Amer. Jour. Bot. 100: 1221-1226.

Mesfin Tadesse and D. J. Crawford. 2013. The phytomelanin layer in traditional members of Bidens L. and Coreopsis L. and phylogeny of the Coreopsidea (Compositae). Nordic Jour. Bot. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2011.001714.x

Soto-Trejo, F., J. K. Kelly, J. K. Archibald, M. E. Mort, A. Santos-Guerra & D. J. Crawford. 2013. The genetics of self-compatibility and associated floral characters in Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Canary Islands.  Inter. Jour. Plant Sci. 174: 171-178.

Cho, M.-K, S. A. Yun, D. J. Crawford, A. Santos-Guerra and S.-C. Kim. 2013. Origin and evolution of  woody sow-thistles in the Macarnesian Islands revisited: four decades after the revision of Sonchus (Asteraceae). Vierea 41: 217-232.

Anderson, G. J., D. J. Crawford and G. Bernardello. 2013. The reproductive biology of island plants: the Juan Fernandez and Canary Islands. Vierea 41: 115-127.

Crawford, D. J., M. E. Mort, and J. K. Archibald. 2013. Tolpis santosii (Asteraceae: Cichorieae), a new species from La

López-Sepúlveda, P. G., K. Takayama, J. Greimler, P. Peñailillo, D. J. Crawford, M.Baeza, E. Ruiz, G. Kohl, K. Tremetsberger, A. Gatica, L. Letelier,P. Novoa, J. Novak, and T.  F. Stuessy. 2013. Genetic variation (AFLPS and nuclear microsatellites) in two anagenetically derived endemic species of Myrceugenia (Myrtaceae) on Juan Fernández Islands, Chile. Amer. Jour. Bot. 100: 722-734.

Review Papers

Stuessy, T. F., K. Takayama, P. Lopez-Sepulveda, and D. J. Crawford. 2014. Interpretations of patterns of genetic variation within endemic plant species of oceanic islands. Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 174: 276-288.

Crawford, D. J. 2010. Progenitor-derivative species pairs and plant speciation. Taxon 59: 1413-1423.

Caujapé-Castells,J.  Al. Tye, D. J. Crawford, A. Santos-Guerra, A. Sakai, K. Beaver, W. Lobin, F. B. Vincent Florens, M. Moura, R. Jardim, I. Gómes, C. Kueffer. 2010. Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. Persp. Pl. Ecol, Evol. and Syst. 21:107-129.

Book Chapters

Crawford, D. J., G. J. Anderson, and G. Bernardello. 2011. The reproductive biology of island plants, pp. 11-36 In:  D. Barmwell and J. Caujape-Castells, eds., The Biology of Island Floras. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Crawford, D. J. A. Anderberg, B. Baldwin, R. Bayer, J. Bonifacino, I. Breitwieser, L. Brouillet, R. Carbajal, R. Chan, A. Coutinho, D. J. Crawford, and 42 other authors. 2009. Compositae metatrees: the next generation, pp. 747-777. In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. F. Stuessy and R. J. Bayer, eds. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. International Organization of Plant Taxonomy: Vienna.

Crawford, D. J., Mesfin Tadesse, M. E. Mort, R. T. Kimball, and C. P. Randle. 2009 Tribe Coreopsideae, pp. 713-730.  In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. F. Stuessy and R. J. Bayer, eds. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. International Organization of Plant Taxonomy: Vienna.

Crawford, D. J., T. K. Lowrey, G. J. Anderson, G. Bernardello, A. Santos-Guerra, and T. F. Stuessy. 2009 Genetic diversity in the colonizing ancestors of Asteraceae endemic to oceanic islands: Baker’s law and polyploidy, pp. 139-151 In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. F. Stuessy and R. J. Bayer, eds. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. International Organization of Plant Taxonomy: Vienna.

Books

Crawford, D. J. and V. B. Smocovitis (eds.) 2004. The Scientific Papers of G. Ledyard Stebbins (1929-2000). Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, Germany. 355 pp.

Crawford, D.J.  1990.  Plant Molecular Systematics:  Macromolecular Approaches.  John Wiley and Sons, New York, 388 pp.

Teaching

University of Wyoming

Plant Anatomy

Wyoming Plant Life

General Botany

Plant Taxonomy

Biosystematics and Evolution

Field Taxonomy of Vascular Plants at S.H. Knight Summer Science Camp

The Ohio State University

Plant Taxonomy

Plant Chemosystematics

General Botany

Evolutionary Mechanisms in Flowering Plants (Plant Speciation)

Local Flora

General Plant Biology

University of Concepcion, Chile

Plant Evolution and Speciation (August-September, 1986)

DNA and Plant Systematics (August-September, 1988)

Estudios de Evolucion y Filogenia Floras Insulares en Terreno (January-February, 1990, on the Juan Fernandez Islands)

Sistematica Molecular de Organismos Fotosintetizadores (January, 2006)

University of Chile, Santiago

Use of Enzyme Electrophoresis in Plant Systematics and Plant Population Biology (November, 1989, two-day short course)

Department of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria

Plant speciation, ten lectures, March 10- March 21, 2000

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas

Seminar: Plant Speciation, second semester, 2001-2002.

Grants & Other Funded Activity

National Science Foundation1971-74$17,000

National Science Foundation 1975-77 $39,000

National Science Foundation 1977-79 $4,100(Doct. diss. T. Davis)

U.S. Forest Service1977 $2,200

National Science Foundation1977-80 $85,000

National Science Foundation1978-80 $3,850

National Science Foundation1978-80 $4,130(Doct. diss. M. Roberts)

National Science Foundation1978-79 $12,450

National Science Foundation1980-84 $101, 038

National Science Foundation1982-84 $13, 800

National Science Foundation1982-84 $4,200 (Doct. diss. R. Bayer)

National Science Foundation1982-84 $5,115(Doct. diss. R. Pilatowski)

National Science Foundation1983-86 $147,000 (Co-PI with T. Stuessy)

National Science Foundation1983-85 $4,350 (Doct. diss. R. Whitkus)

National Science Foundation1984-85 $5,100(Doct. diss. D. Les)

National Science Foundation1983 $5,250

National Science Foundation1984-86 $60,000(Co-PI with T.F. Stuessy)

National Science Foundation1984-86 $15,478 (Doct. diss. P. Pacheco, H.  Valdebenito, Co-PI with T.F. Stuessy)

National Science Foundation1985-86 $49,173(Co-PI with T.F. Stuessy)

National Science Foundation1986-89 $115,000

National Science Foundation1988-90 $5,000(Doct. diss. P. Lewis)

National Science Foundation1989-92 $220,000(Co-PI with T. F. Stuessy)

National Science Foundation1991-92 $7,400(Doct. diss. D. Haines)

National Science Foundation1991-93 $10,500(Doct. diss. M.B. Cosner)

National Science Foundation1992-94 $19,900

National Science Foundation1993-94 $11,200

National Science Foundation1994-95 $15,000

Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources1994-95 $10,500

National Science Foundation1994-95 $10,650

National Science Foundation1995-97 $10,000(Doct. diss. S.-C. Kim)

National Science Foundation1995-98 $180,000(Co-PI with T.F.  Stuessy)

Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources1995-96 $12,000

National Science Foundation1996-98 $8,000 (Doct. diss. K. Gengler)

National Science Foundation1998-2001 $50,300

U. S. Fish and Wildlife 1999-2000 $5,000

Memberships

Sigma Xi

Botanical Society of America

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

California Botanical Society

Torrey Botanical Club

Society for the Study of Evolution

Fellow, Linnean Society of London

Society for the Study of Species Biology

California Native Plant Society

International Organization of Plant Biosystematists

International Association for Plant Taxonomy