Joseph Rohrer

Education

• Ph.D. University of Michigan - Botany - 1985
• M.S. University of North Carolina - Botany - 1979
• B.S. Davidson College - Biology - 1976

Courses

• Biol 195 Plants and Society
• Biol 325 Taxonomy of Vascular Plants
• Biol 326 Economic Botany
• Biol 331 Trees and Shrubs
• Biol 332 Field Botany

Research - Plant Systematics

• Inventory of the bryophytes and vascular plants of Putnam Park and Eau Claire County
• Preparing taxonomic treatments for the Flora of North America project
• Analyzing relationships among the 15 species of plums native to North America as inferred from DNA sequences
• Selected Publications:
  

  Rohrer, J. R., M. A. O'Brien, and J. A. Anderson. 2008. Phylogenetic analysis of North American plums (Prunus sect. Prunocerasus: Rosaceae) based on nuclear LEAFY and S6PDH sequences. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 2:401-414.

  Rohrer JR, R Ahmad, SM Southwick and D Potter.  (2004).  Microsatellite analysis of relationships among North American plums (Prunus sect. Prunocerasus, Rosaceae).  Plant Systematics and Evolution 244: 69-75.

  Rohrer JR. (2000). The sand cherry in Wisconsin and neighboring states. Michigan Botanist 39: 59-69.

Contact information:
Phillips Hall 355
Department of Biology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Ph: 715-836-5586
Fax: 715-836-5089
email: jrohrer@uwec.edu