Daniel J CrawfordDaniel J. Crawford is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas. He is the author and editor of three prior books and is author/co-author of over 220 publications, including twenty book chapters andfourteen invited review papers in addition to primary research papers. His research is centered on the origin, evolution and reproductive biology of island plants and on the evolution of tribe Coreopsideae of Asteraceae. He served as President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Botanical Society of America. He has received the Asa Gray Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Merit Award (now named Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America) from the Botanical Society. Read More Read Less