Dr. Kåre Bremer

Dr. Kåre Bremer is a Swedish botanist and former Vice-Chancellor at Stockholm University.

Excerpt from Stockholm University website on Dr. Bremer's research:

"Bremer introduced and promoted cladistics in botany together with H.-E. Wanntorp. He worked on the phylogeny and classification of various groups of the sunflower family (Asteraceae) including extensive field work in South Africa. He worked on a group of palaeotropical rain forest trees (Memecylon, Melastomataceae) including extensive field work in tropical Asia and contributed a family treatment for Flora of Ceylon. He explored family interrelationships of asterid flowering plants (especially sunflower alliances of families) and participated in construction and coordination of a new System of flowering plants (the APG-system). He also developed new methods for estimating support in and dating of phylogenetic trees and for analysis of historical biogeography of flowering plants, in particular asterids and monocots."

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Bremer has published the following:

Bremer, K., M. W. Chase, P. F. Stevens, A. Anderberg, A. Backlund, B. Bremer, B. Briggs, P. K. Endress, M. F. Fay, P. Goldblatt, M. H. G. Gustafsson, S. B .Hoot, W. S. Judd, M. Källersjö, E. A. Kellogg, K. A. Kron, D. H. Les, C. M. Morton, D. L. Nickrent, R. G. Olmstead, R. A. Price, C. J. Quinn, J. E. Rodman, P. J. Rudall, V. Savolainen, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, K. J. Sytsma, and M. Thulin (The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group). 1998. An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: 531–553.