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M. Patrick Griffith



   

    M. Patrick Griffith
    Executive Director

    Montgomery Botanical Center
    11901 Old Cutler Road
    Miami, FL 33156 USA

    305-667-3800 ext. 105
    patrick@montgomerybotanical.org



Summary

Dr. M. Patrick Griffith
has led Montgomery Botanical Center since 2005 -- developing the team, focusing resources, and setting priorities to meet the mission.

Patrick has worked in leadershipliving collections management, herbarium curation, rare plant survey, floristic inventory, laboratory research, and land management, and for botanic gardens, universities, government, and private interests.

Patrick's academic activity has been in plant systematics and plant conservation, and is focused on living botanical collections. 


Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Botany
Claremont Graduate University and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (2004).

Master of Business Administration
Florida International University (2008).

Master of Science in Biology
Sul Ross State University (2000).

Batchelor of Arts, Major in Botany
University of Texas at Austin (1998).


Recent research papers

Namoff, S., C. E. Husby, J. Francisco-Ortega, L. R. Noblick, C. E. Lewis, and M. P. Griffith. 2010. How well does a botanical garden collection of a rare palm capture the genetic variation in a wild population? Biological Conservation 143:1110-1117.

Griffith, M. P., and J. M. Porter. 2009. Phylogeny of Opuntioideae (Cactaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 170: 107-116.

Griffith, M. P. 2009. Evolution of leaf and habit characters in Opuntioideae (Cactaceae): reconstruction of ancestral form. Bradleya 27: 49-58.

Calonje, M., J. Meerman, P. Griffith, and G. Hoese. 2009. A new species of Zamia (Zamiaceae) from the Maya Mountains of Belize. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 31: 31-41.

Griffith, M. P. 2009. Pereskia, Portulacaceae, photosynthesis, and phylogenies: implications for early Cactaceae. Haseltonia 14: 37-45.

Griffith, M. P., L. R. Noblick, J. L. Dowe, C. E. Husby, and M. Calonje. 2008. Cyclone tolerance in New World Arecaceae: biogeographic variation and abiotic natural selection. Annals of Botany 102:591-598.

Columbus, J. T., R. Cerros-Tlatilpa, M. S. Kinney, M. E. Siquieros Delgado, H. E. Bell, M. P. Griffith, and N. F. Refulio-Rodriguez. 2007. Phylogenetics of Chloridoideae (Gramineae): a preliminary study based on nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer and chloroplast trnL-F sequences. Aliso 23: 565-579.

Griffith, M. P. 2004. The origins of an important cactus crop, Opuntia ficus-indica: New molecular evidence. American Journal of Botany 91: 1915-1921.

Griffith, M. P. 2004. What did the first cactus look like? An attempt to reconcile the morphological and molecular evidence. Taxon 53: 493-499.

Goldman, D. H., C. van den Berg, and M. P. Griffith. 2004. Morphometric circumscription of species and infraspecific taxa in Calopogon R.Br. (Orchidaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 247: 37-60.

 

Recent articles

Griffith, M. P., I. L. Danielson, C. D. Bacon, and L. R. Noblick. 2010. Pritchardia challenges at the Montgomery Botanical Center. The Palm Journal 193: 28-30

Griffith, P., and C. Husby. 2010. The price of conservation: measuring the mission and its cost. BGJournal 7: 12-14.

Griffith, M. P., J. L. Dowe, L. R. Noblick, and I. L. Danielson. 2009. Archontophoenix at Montgomery Botanical Center. The Palm Journal 192: 12-14.

Calonje, M., C. Husby, and P. Griffith. 2009. The Cycad Collection at Montgomery Botanical Center. Public Garden 24: 25-27.

Griffith, M. P., L. R. Noblick, and A. A. Strader. 2008. Sabal collections at Montgomery Botanical Center. The Palm Journal 189: 8-9.

Anderson, L. and M. P. Griffith. 2008. Palms, turf, budgets, and priorities: strategic horticulture management at MBC. Palms 52: 59-62.

Noblick, L. R., C. E. Husby, and M. P. Griffith. 2008. The Palm Collection at Montgomery Botanical Center. Public Garden 23: 26-29.

Griffith, M. P. and M. Calonje. 2007. Ex situ horticultural conservation of Cycas micronesica, an endangered cycad species. Association of Zoological Horticulture 2007 Conference Proceedings.

Noblick, L. R., M. P. Griffith, and I. L. Danielson. 2006. Montgomery Botanical Center's Ptychosperma and Veitchia collections. The Palm Journal 183:16-18.

Griffith, M. P.  2005. Un palmier bouteille peu commun au Centre Botanique de Montgomery (Floride). Le Palmier (France) 45: 17.

Griffith, M. P. 2005. Étonnant, non? L’étrange palmier bonbonne du Montgomery Botanical Center. Latania (Réunion) 14: 33.

Griffith, M. P. 2005. California Desert Flowers by S. Morhardt and E. Morhardt (Review). Madroño 52: 126.

Griffith, M. P. 2005. In Pursuit of Plants. Experiences of Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Plant Collectors by P. Short (review). Economic Botany 59: 98.

Griffith, M. P., and M. Andrews. 2005. Colonel Robert and Nell Montgomery: Growing their legacy. Preservation Today 2005: 26-27.

Griffith, M. P. 2004. Ancient Wine: the Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern (Review). Economic Botany 58: 487-488.

Griffith, M. P. 2004. Atlas of the Vacular Plants of Texas Volume 1—Dicots; Volume 2-Monocots, Ferns and Gymnosperms; Sida Botanical Miscellany 24 by Billie L. Turner, Holly Nichols, Geoffrey Denny, and Oded Doron (Book Review). Systematic Botany 29: 459-460.


Field experience

Belize (2008)
 
Mexico (2000, 2001) 

United States (1997-2007)

Trinidad & Tobago (2007)


Service

Advisory Board, Gifford Arboretum, University of Miami.

Board of Directors,
The Friends of Chapman Field;
Tropical Flowering Tree Society

Cycad Specialist Group
, IUCN Species Survival Commission.

Graduate Committee
,
Florida International University; University of Delaware.

Graduate Faculty,
College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University

Moderator, American Public Garden Association Conference (2006, 2008, 2009); Cycad 2008.

Program Selection Committee
(2007-2009) American Public Garden Association 

Reviewer
for American Journal of Botany, Annals of Botany, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society,
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Botanical Review, Bradleya, CITES, Cladistics, Economic Botany, Haseltonia, International Journal of Plant Sciences, IUCN (World Conservation Union), Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, Madroño, Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden, National Geographic Society, Plant Systematics and Evolution, South Florida Palm Society, Systematic Botany, Taxon, US Civilian Research & Development Foundation, University of Florida Extension Service.

Search Committee
, Department of Biology, University of Miami.


Membership


American Public Garden Association

Botanical Society of America

International Palm Society

The Cycad Society

Tropical Flowering Tree Society




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