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Overview

Michael D. Crisp is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans several fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Ecological, Evolutionary, Behavioral, and Systematic studies. Additional research interests cover Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Ecological Modeling.

Their scientific contributions are reflected in various primary topics of study such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy studies.

Michael D. Crisp's recent publications illustrate a focus on botanical systematics and evolutionary biology, with notable works including:

  • "AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora," 2021, Scientific Data
  • "AusTraits - a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Understanding Diversity and Systematics in Australian Fabaceae Tribe Mirbelieae," 2021, Diversity
  • "Perianth evolution and implications for generic delimitation in the eucalypts (Myrtaceae), including the description of the new genus, Blakella," 2024, Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • "Appraising widespread resprouting but variable levels of postfire seeding in Australian ecosystems: the effect of phylogeny, fire regime and productivity," 2022, Australian Journal of Botany

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Lyn G. Cook, A. R. Bean, Carl R. Gosper, Russell L. Barrett, and James A. R. Clugston, reflecting a network of partnerships primarily within ecological and botanical research contexts.

Michael D. Crisp's work has been published across various research venues, pointing to diverse scholarly communication channels relevant to their research domains. These venues include:

  • Scientific Data
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • Australian Systematic Botany
  • Diversity

Best Publications

  • A new subfamily classification of the leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny

    Nasim Azani;Marielle Babineau;C. Donovan Bailey;Hannah Banks

  • Endemism in the Australian flora

    Michael Crisp;Shawn Laffan;H Linder;A Monro

  • Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

    Michael D. Crisp;Mary T. K. Arroyo;Lyn G. Cook;Maria A. Gandolfo

  • Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history.

    Dan Rosauer;Shawn Laffan;Michael Crisp;Stephen C. Donnellan;Stephen C. Donnellan

  • Radiation of the Australian flora: what can comparisons of molecular phylogenies across multiple taxa tell us about the evolution of diversity in present–day communities?

    Michael D. Crisp;Lyn G. Cook;Dorothy A. Steane

  • Decline of a biome: Evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

    Margaret Byrne;Dorothy Steane;Leo Joseph;David K. Yeates

  • Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics

    David M.J.S. Bowman;G.K. Brown;G.K. Brown;Michael Braby;J.R. Brown

  • Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

    Michael Crisp;Geoffrey E. Burrows;Lynette Gai Cook;Andrew Thornhill

  • Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?

    Michael Crisp;Lynette Gai Cook

  • Hypothesis testing in biogeography

    Michael Crisp;Steve A. Trewick;Lynette Gai Cook

  • Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits

    Michael D. Crisp;Lyn G. Cook

  • Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms

    Michael Crisp;Lynette Gai Cook

  • Assessing endemism at multiple spatial scales, with an example from the Australian vascular flora

    Shawn W. Laffan;Michael D. Crisp

  • Not so ancient: the extant crown group of Nothofagus represents a post-Gondwanan radiation

    Lyn G Cook;Michael D Crisp

  • Interpreting the modern distribution of Myrtaceae using a dated molecular phylogeny.

    Andrew H. Thornhill;Andrew H. Thornhill;Simon Y.W. Ho;Carsten Külheim;Michael D. Crisp

  • Directional asymmetry of long-distance dispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography

    Lyn G. Cook;Michael D. Crisp

  • EXPLOSIVE RADIATION OR CRYPTIC MASS EXTINCTION? INTERPRETING SIGNATURES IN MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

    Michael Crisp;Lynette Gai Cook

  • Evolution of exceptional species richness among lineages of fleshy-fruited Myrtaceae.

    Ed Biffin;Ed Biffin;Eve J. Lucas;Lyn A. Craven;Itayguara Ribeiro da Costa

  • Need morphology always be required for new species descriptions

    Lynette Gai Cook;R.D. Edwards;Michael Crisp;N.B. Hardy

  • Phylogenetic approaches reveal biodiversity threats under climate change

    Carlos E. González-Orozco;Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Andrew H. Thornhill;Andrew H. Thornhill;Andrew H. Thornhill;Brent D. Mishler

  • How Was the Australian Flora Assembled Over the Last 65 Million Years? A Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective

    Michael Crisp;Lynette Gai Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyn G. Cook
Lyn G. Cook University of Queensland
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
Joseph T. Miller
Joseph T. Miller Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Yuji Isagi
Yuji Isagi Kyoto University
Shawn W. Laffan
Shawn W. Laffan University of New South Wales
Simon Y. W. Ho
Simon Y. W. Ho University of Sydney
Maurizio Rossetto
Maurizio Rossetto Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Yoshihiko Tsumura
Yoshihiko Tsumura University of Tsukuba
Randall J. Bayer
Randall J. Bayer University of Memphis
Anne Bruneau
Anne Bruneau University of Montreal

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