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Paul Edward Berry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Professional Preparation
B.S., Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1975
M.A., Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1979
Ph.D., Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1980
Appointments
2006– University of Michigan: Professor in Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director of the Herbarium and Associate Director of the Museum of Zoology
1998–2005 Professor and Director of the Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Wisconsin–Madison
1998– Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
1989–97 Associate Curator, then Curator, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
1995–98 Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology Dept., Washington University, St. Louis
1989–97 Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology Dept., University of Missouri–St. Louis
1980–88 Assistant, Aggregate, then Associate Professor, Department of Organismic Biology, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela (Dept. Chair, 84–86)
1978–79 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis
1975-76 Botanist, Commission for the Development of the South of Venezuela (CODESUR), Ministry of Public Works, Venezuela
1974-75 Herbarium Assistant, Instituto Botánico, Caracas, Venezuela
Selected Publications (out of ca. 160)
Woodward, C. L., P. E. Berry, H. Maas-van de Kamer, and K. Swing. In press. Tiputinia foetida, a new mycoheterotrophic genus of Thismiaceae from Amazonian Ecuador, and a likely case of deceit pollination. Taxon.
Hokche, O., P. E. Berry, and O. Huber (editors). In press. Nuevo Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Venezuela. Herbario Nacional de Venezuela, Caracas.
van Ee, B. W., N. Jelinski, P. E. Berry, and A. L. Hipp. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of Croton alabamensis (Euphorbiaceae), a rare shrub from Texas and Alabama, using DNA sequence and AFLP data. Molecular Ecology 15: 2735–2751.
Berry, P.E., A.L. Hipp, K. Wurdack, B. Van Ee, & R. Riina. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics of the giant genus Croton (Euphorbiaceae s. s.) using ITS and trnL-F. Amer. Journal of Botany 92: 1520-1534.
Berry, P. E., I. Cordeiro, A. C. Wiedenhoeft, M. A. Vitorino-Cruz, & L. Ribes de Lima. 2005. Brasiliocroton, a new crotonoid genus of Euphorbiaceae s.s. from eastern Brazil. Systematic Botany 30: 356-364.
Berry, P.E., K. Yatskievych and B.K. Holst (editors). 1995–2005. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volumes 1 through 9. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. (entire flora of nine volumes completed in October 2005, including 5,000 figures and 6,000 pages).
Berry, P.E., W.J. Hahn, K.J. Sytsma, J.C. Hall, and A. Mast. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Fuchsia (Onagraceae) based on non-coding nuclear and chloroplast DNA data. American Journal of Botany 91: 601-614.
Givnish, T.G., K.C. Millam, T.M. Evans, J.C. Hall, J C. Pires, P.E. Berry, & K.J. Sytsma. 2004. Ancient vicariance or recent long-distance dispersal? Inferences about phylogeny and South American-African disjunctions in Rapateaceae and Bromeliaceae based on ndhF sequence data. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165(4 Suppl.):S35–S54. 2004.
Berry, P.E. 2002. Biological inventories and the PhyloCode. Taxon 51: 27-29.
Givnish, T.J., T.M. Evans, M.L. Zjhra, T.B. Patterson, P.E. Berry & K.J. Sytsma. 2000. Molecular evolution, adaptive radiation, and geographic diversification in the amphiatlantic family Rapateaceae: evidence from ndhF sequences and morphology. Evolution 54: 1915-1937.
Active Grants
2006-11 National Science Foundation,Planetary Biodiversity Initiative (PBI): a global inventory of Euphorbia. PI with Kenneth Wurdack, David Baum, Reed Beaman, and Nico Cellinese
Synergistic Activities (five examples)
1. As editor-in-chief of the Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana for 15 years, I coordinated 200 plant taxonomists from over 20 countries who contributed to the project. As floras go, this has been a very successful one, with all nine volumes completed and published in a ten-year period (1995–2005, with 6000 pages and over 5000 figures). This has given me valuable experience in coordinating large and international research groups.
2. I am PI on an NSF Planetary Biodiversity Inventory grant aimed at producing a worldwide monograph of the genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae). This is a strongly collaborative effort involving collaborators in all major regions of the globe, and including molecular, developmental, and advanced web applications besides basic exploration and descriptive aspects. This extends my work on Croton and experience with “giant genera” and how best to study such large assemblages of species.
3. I try to foster greater collaboration among botanists nationally and internationally. A current initiative is to develop and produce an integrated catalog of all Neotropical vascular plants, much needed for biodiversity and conservation purposes. The biggest gap right now is in Brazil, and I have proposed digitizing the 3,300 plant illustrations in last century’s 40-volume opus of Flora Brasiliensis and updating the taxonomy of the Flora’s 23,000 species as the basis for a revised checklist of all Brazilian species. We now have funding through Fapesp in São Paulo State to develop the database and web page behind this effort.
4. In eight years as Herbarium Director at the Wisconsin State Herbarium, I focused my efforts on disseminating information about Wisconsin plants to the public in an easily accessible format. We did this by developing a heavily visited web site (http://wisc.edu/herbarium/) based on a new catalog of Wisconsin vascular plants, with accompanying photographic images and detailed state distribution maps. Behind this is a successful effort to database all of the 300,000 Wisconsin specimens at WIS. I continue to work on a collaborative effort among state botanists to produce a highly illustrated published Guide to the Plants of Wisconsin, with associated enhancements to the web site, such as interactive keys and modules for restoration of prairies and other natural areas.
5. In outside service to the scientific community, I served on the annual selection committee of the WWF-Garden Club of America Awards in Tropical Botany for graduate students. I have been on peer review committees for the Science Division of the New York Botanical Garden; NSF International Postdoctoral Fellowships panel; the São Paulo Brazil FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo; and the editorial boards of Biotropica, Ecotropicos, Acta Botanica Venezuelica, Scientia Guianae, and Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid.. I regularly review manuscripts for different journals and evaluate proposals for NSF and NGS.
Graduate Thesis Advisor
Current: Ya Yang (Ph.D.), Christopher Lane (Ph.D), Brian Dorsey (Ph.D.), Natalia Ivalú Cacho (co-advisor, Ph.D.), Alex Wiedenhoeft (Ph.D.); Graduated: Gerardo Aymard (M.S.), Jason Bradford (Ph.D.), Germán Carnevali (M.S. & Ph.D.), Nidia Cuello (M.S.), Amy Duchelle (M.S.), Jennifer Dufek (M.S.), Andrew Hipp (Ph.D.), Otehlia Kiser (M.S.), Allison Mahoney (Ph.D.), Gabriel Picón (M.S.), Nelson Ramírez (Ph.D.), Ricarda Riina (M.S.), Ricarda Riina (Ph.D.), Benjamin van Ee (Ph.D.), Alex Wiedenhoeft (M.S.).
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