Cryptic paw (Nephroma occultum) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

Patrick Williston is a botanist living in Smithers, British Columbia. He is a partner in Gentian Botanical Research, a consulting business focused on applying field-based botanical knowledge to improving ecosystem stewardship and rare plant conservation. His recent work has focused on rare plant biology (floristics and distributional patterns) and lichen ecology (as air pollution monitors, antique forest indicators, and forage for caribou in forests affected by mountain pine beetles). He also is active in fern research, studying the taxonomy of the genera Polystichum (holly ferns) and Botrychium (moonworts). In 2001, he wrote a small booklet describing the distribution of the genus Botrychium in Alberta (The Botrychiaceae of Alberta).

Patrick received a master’s degree in 1999 from the University of British Columbia, completing a thesis which examined the ecology of microbiotic crusts in the semi-arid inland region of British Columbia. He first began studying lichens and bryophytes in 1994.

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