User:Shadowowl/Laurence Dorr

Laurence J. Dorr (1953) is a American botanic.

1976-1991
In 1976 he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Earth Sciences and Planetology from Washington University. In 1980 he earned his Master of Arts in botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1983 he took a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin with his thesis The Systematics and Evolution of the Genus Callirhoe (Malvaceae). From 1983 to 1986 he worked for the Madagascar. In 1987 he taught biology at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1988 to 1991 he worked for the New York Botanical Garden in the Andes in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

After 1991
Since 1991 Dorr has been working in the botany department of the National Museum of Natural History. (Smithsonian Institution). He is involved in research into the systematics] of the order Malvales and especially [[Tropics|tropical taxa previously classified as Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae. In addition, he examines the system of the heid family. ('Ericaceae'), focusing on tropical taxa from Africa and Madagascar. He is investigating the flora of the northern vascular plants of the Parque Nacional Guaramacal in floristic Malvales family in the neotropes and palaeotropes, the history of botanical exploration of Madagascar and neighbouring islands in the Indian Ocean, and the 19th century natural history in the United States.

Dorr is betrokken bij de projecten Flora Mesoamericana, Flora of North America en Flora of China. Hij is (mede)auteur van artikelen in tijdschriften als Adansonia, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Brittonia, Novon en Taxon. Hij is de (mede)auteur van meer dan negentig botanische namen. Hij is auteur van het boek Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands (Kew Publishing, 1997). Het boek Taxonomic Literature: a Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections with Dates, Commentaries and Types, 2nd edition, waarvan Dorr een van de auteurs is, is door de Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) bekroond met een eervolle vermelding.

Dorr is involved in the Organization for Flora Neotropica and is a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. He represents the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the National Museum of Natural History at the American Institute of Biological Sciences.