Bolander’s quillwort (Isoetes bolanderi) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

Peter L. Achuff has degrees in Botany (systematics and plant ecology) from the University of Montana, New York Botanical Garden-Columbia University, and University of Alberta. He has worked mainly in western and northern North America over the last 35 years on a variety of projects involving natural resource inventory and monitoring, protected areas management, rare species, and plant conservation. He is currently the Species Assessment Biologist for the Parks Canada National Office, Ecological Integrity Branch and is a member of COSEWIC.

Daniel Brunton is an ecological consultant and naturalist based in Ottawa, Ontario. He was educated in Ontario (Carleton University, Geography) and worked for a number of years in the provincial parks systems of Ontario and Alberta in various capacities, including interpretive planner, ecological inventory specialist and natural areas planner. Brunton has been an independent ecological consultant since 1979 and has worked on a wide variety of projects in Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut, British Columbia and Alberta. These range from impact assessments of various residential, municipal and transportation development proposals, to endangered plant species studies, natural areas, park planning, and ecological program audits.

Brunton’s personal interest in vascular plants and pteridophytes, in particular, has directed much of his production of biological literature. He has published over 300 natural history titles, including over 100 papers on vascular plants. In the course of such investigations, he has also developed one of the largest private herbariums in Canada, presently containing over 15 000 fully curated specimens.

Investigations of the genus Isoetes has been a particular interest since the late 1980s. In association with retired University of Guelph geneticist Donald M. Britton, Brunton has published over 30 scientific papers on the taxonomy, ecology and distribution of Isoetes species in North America, Asia and Europe. Over a dozen new North American taxa have been described in these papers, including several new species. He is a co-author of the Flora of North America treatment of the Isoetaceae.


Collections Examined

Canadian Museum of Nature (Gatineau, Quebec)

Daniel F. Brunton herbarium (Ottawa, Ontario)

University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario)

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