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Brian Keener, Ph.D.

 
UWA Position/Title:  Assistant Professor of Biology and Director Curator of the University of West Alabama Herbarium
Department:  Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Mail Station:  7
Office Room #:  Bibb Graves 107
Office Phone:  205.652.3796
Email:  bkeener@uwa.edu
Degrees:

Ph.D.  The University of Alabama (2005)
M.S.    The University of Alabama (1999)
B.S.     Auburn University (1996)

 


Date of Initial Employment at UWA: August 2003
Classes usually taught:

BY 212 General Botany
BY 314 Dendrology
BY 410/510 Plant Taxonomy
BY 413/513 Plant Systematics

 

Academic / Research Interests:

Vascular Flora of Alabama
Vascular Plant Taxonomy & Systematics
Aquatic Plants
Herbarium Curation

Current projects:

Vascular Flora of Alabama
Molecular Systematics of Sagittaria (Alismataceae)
Alismataceae

Recent publications:
  • Keener, B. R. & L. J. Davenport.  2007. A New Name for the Well-Known Asplenium (Aspleniaceae) from Hale County, Alabama. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1:103-108.
  • Sorrie, B. A., B. R. Keener, & A. L. Edwards.  2007.  Reinstatement of Sagittaria macrocarpa (Alismataceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1:345-350. 
  • Keener, B. R.  2007.  Noteworthy Collections: Alabama.  Castanea 72: 47-48
  • Keener, B. R.  2006.  Balduina Pp. 419-420 in Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 21, ed. Flora of North America Editorial Committee.  Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Lindqvist, C., J. D. Laet, R. R. Haynes, L. Aagesen, B. R. Keener and V. A. Albert.  2006.  Molecular phylogenetics of an aquatic plant lineage, Potamogetonaceae.  Cladistics 22: 568-588.
  • Keener, B. R. 2004.  Review of Flora of China Volume 24 by Wu Zheng-yi and Peter Raven (eds.). 2000 & Flora of China Illustrations Volume 24 by Wu Zheng-yi and Peter Ravan (eds.). 2002.  Systematic Botany 29: 221.
  • Keener, B. R. & R. Kral. 2003. A New Species of Solidago (Asteraceae) from North Central Alabama. Sida 20: 1589-1593.  

 

 
 
 
 
   
 
 

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