Dan Crawford
- Adjunct Research Associate - Botany
Contact Info
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 —
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