Michael A. Vincent
, herbarium curator and instructor
My Homepage
Webpage: W.S. Turrell Herbarium (MU)
Ph.D.
(1991) Miami University, Oxford
Areas of Expertise
Plant taxonomy.floristics, endangered species conservation, hebarium curation
Research Interests
My research interests include vascular plant taxonomy and floristics. My taxonomic interests center at the moment on the systematics of New World Trifolium (clovers). I am currently revising the New World species of the genus, and writing treatments of the genus for many floras that are being compiled, including Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Oregon, Mexico, and Chile. I have examined the eastern North American taxa, and have begun careful reassessment of the western North American species. I have used both traditional morphological and field techniques in my research, and have used allozyme analyses to examine species limits and genetic diversity in populations of rare species.
My floristic interests are broad. I have written treatments for several families for the current Flora of North America project, and am also working on treatments of several more groups for both the FNA project and the Flora of the Greater Antilles project. I am very interested in the spread of introduced species into the wild (biological pollution), and am constantly looking for cultivated plants growing outside of cultivation. I am very interested in the flora of Ohio and the flora of the Caribbean basin (especially the Bahamas). With colleague Jim Hickey, I am revising the Flora of the Bahama Archipelago.
As curator of the W.S. Turrell herbarium, I am very interested in museum curation, the use of natural history specimens in teaching and research, and public education involving herbaria and other biological museums.
Selected Publications
Vincent, M.A. and C. Kwit. 2007. Additions to the vascular plant flora of Eleuthera. Bahamas Naturalist and Journal of Science 2(2): 52-54.
Tepe, E.J., M.A. Vincent, and L.E. Watson. 2007. The importance of petiole structure on inhabitability by ants in Piper sect. Macrostachys (Piperaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 181-191.
Sewell, M. and M.A. Vincent. 2006. Biosystematics of the Phacelia ranunculacea complex (Hydrophyllaceae). Castanea 71: 192-209.
Vincent, M.A. 2005. On the spread and current distribution of Pyrus calleryana in the United States. Castanea 70: 20-31.
Vincent, M.A. 2004. Spread of Fatoua villosa (Mulberry weed; Moraceae) in North America. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science 65: 67-75.
Duley, M.L. & M.A. Vincent. 2003. A Synopsis of the Genus Cladrastis Raf. (Leguminosae). Rhodora 105: 205-239.