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The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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Dr Chrissen Gemmill

PhD, Colorado 1996; BS, California 1990

Research interests: Biosystematics, population and conservation genetics, and biogeography of endemic Pacific plants, in particular Pittosporum; molecular systematics of Antarctic mosses.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Holzapfel, A.S.; Faville, M.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. In review: Genetic variation and implications for conservation of the endangered holoparasite Dactylanthus taylorii Hook f. (Balanophoraceae). Invited to submit to special volume of Journal of Biogeography.

Gemmill, C.E.C.; Allan, G.; Wagner, W.L.; Zimmer, E.A. In press: Evolution of insular pacific Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae): Origin of the Hawaiian radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Ranker, T.A.; Gemmill, C.E.C.; Trapp, P.G. 2000: Microevolutionary patterns and processes of the native Hawaiian colonizing fern Odontosoria chinensis (Lindsaeaceae). Evolution. 54: 828-839.

Russell, A.E.; Ranker, T.A.; Gemmill, C.E.C.; Farrar, D.R. 1999: Patterns of clonal diversity in Dicranopteris linearis on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, USA. Biotropica 31: 449-459

Gemmill, C.E.C. 1998: A new narrow endemic species of Pritchardia (Arecaceae) from Wai’oli Valley, Kaua’i, Hawaiian Islands. Novon 8: 18-22.

Gemmill, C.E.C.; Ranker, T.A.; Ragone, D.; Perlman, S.P.; Wood, K.R. 1998: Conservation genetics of the endangered endemic Hawaiian genus Brighamia (Campanulaceae). American Journal of Botany 85: 528-539.

Gemmill, C.E.C.; Johnson, K.J. 1997: Paleoecology of a Late Paleocene (Tiffanian) megaflora from the northern Great Divide Basin, Wyoming. Palaios 12: 439-448, 617.

Book chapters

Ranker, T.A.; Gemmill, C.E.C.; Trapp, P.G.; Hambleton, A.; Ha, K. 1996: Population genetics and reproductive biology of lava-flow colonizing species of Hawaiian Sadleria (Blechnaceae). In: J.M. Camus, M. Gibby, and R.J. Johns (eds.), Pteridology in Perspective, pp. 581-598, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Johnson, D. (ed.) and the IUCN/SSC Palm Specialist Group. 1996: Palms: Their conservation and sustained utilization. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 116 + vii pp. (Contributor, Chapter 11).