Michael David Pirie

Associate Professor

University Museum of Bergen Department of Natural History

External home page

E-mailmichael.pirie@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 29 28+47 458 62 644
Visitor Address
Allégaten 41

Realfagbygget

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7800

5020 Bergen

Publications

Selected publications:

Kandziora, M., Gehrke, B., Popp, M., Gizaw, A., Brochmann, C., & Pirie, M.D. 2022. The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2112737119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112737119
Pirie, M.D., Blackhall-Miles, R., Bourke, G., Crowley, D., Ebrahim, I., Forest, F., Knaack, M., Koopman, R., Lansdowne, A., Nürk, N.M., Osborne, J., Pearce, T.R., Rohrauer, D., Smit, M., & Wilman, V. 2022. Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET 4 (4): 335–344. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10266
Pirie, M. D., Kandziora, M., Nürk, N. M., Le Maitre, N. C., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A., Gehrke, B., Oliver, E. G. H., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2019. Leaps and bounds: geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica. BMC Evol. Biol., 19: 222. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1545-6
Pirie, M. D., Maas, P. J. M., Wilschut, R., Melchers-Sharrott, H., & Chatrou, L. 2018. Parallel diversifications of Cremastosperma and Mosannona (Annonaceae), tropical rainforest trees tracking Neogene upheaval of the South American continent. R Soc Open Sci., 5(1): 171561. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsos.171561
Kadlec, M., Bellstedt, D. U., Le Maitre, N. C., & Pirie, M. D. 2017. Targeted NGS for species level phylogenomics: ‘made to measure’ or ‘one size fits all’? PeerJ 5:e3569 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3569
Pirie, M.D., Oliver, E.G.H., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A., Gehrke, B., Le Maitre, N.C., Kandziora, M., & Bellstedt, D.U. (2016). The biodiversity hotspot as evolutionary hot-bed: spectacular radiation of Erica in the Cape Floristic Region. BMC Evol. Biol. 16, 1-11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0764-3
Kadereit, G., Ackerly, D., & Pirie, M.D. (2012). A broader model for C₄ photosynthesis evolution in plants inferred from the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae s.s.). Proc. R. Soc. B. 279, 3304-3311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0440
Pirie, M.D., & Doyle, J.A. (2012). Dating clades with fossils and molecules: the case of Annonaceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 69, 84-116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01234.x
Pirie, M.D., Humphreys, A.M., Barker, N.P. & Linder, H.P. (2009) Reticulation, data combination and inferring evolutionary history: an example from Danthonioideae. Syst. Biol., 58, 612-628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syp068

Academic article

Show author(s) (2023). Fire, frost, and drought constrain the structural diversity of wood within southern African Erica (Ericaceae). Botanical journal of the Linnean Society. 370-389.
Show author(s) (2023). Erica L. (Ericaceae): homonyms amongst published names for African species and proposed replacement names. PhytoKeys. 157-178.

Show author(s) (2022). Where have all the heathers gone? . Sibbaldia. 75-92.
Show author(s) (2022). The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Show author(s) (2022). Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica. Plants, People, Planet. 1-10.

Show author(s) (2021). Chromosome-level reference genome of the soursop (Annona muricata): A new resource for Magnoliid research and tropical pomology. Molecular Ecology Resources. 1608-1619.

Show author(s) (2020). Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis. Ecology and Evolution. 6163-6182.

Show author(s) (2019). Leaps and bounds: geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica. BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Show author(s) (2019). Floral Color, Anthocyanin Synthesis Gene Expression and Control in Cape Erica Species. Frontiers in Plant Science.
Show author(s) (2019). An approach to determining anthocyanin synthesis enzyme gene expression in an evolutionary context: an example from Erica plukenetii. Annals of Botany. 121-130.

Report

Show author(s) (2020). Remarkable insights into processes shaping African tropical tree diversity. 100094. 100094. .

Lecture

Show author(s) (2024). iNaturalist meets IrisBG, Index Seminum & Citizen Science.

Show author(s) (2023). Det norske arboret.

Show author(s) (2020). Sjokolade!

Popular scientific lecture

Show author(s) (2020). Immigrants prevail: lessons from dating the Afroalpine flora.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2022). Young, disturbed, and usaturated: the enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands.
Show author(s) (2022). History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg.

Show author(s) (2021). A Global Conservation Consortium for Erica.

Show author(s) (2020). Benefits and challenges of an iNaturalist-based workflow for field collection.

Show author(s) (2019). “May you live in interesting times” On interesting problems in species level phylogenomics, and the rapid species radiation in Cape Erica (Ericaceae).
Show author(s) (2019). Erica phylogeny: Present and future .

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The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated

New insights into the evolutionary origins of unique African high mountain botanical diversity published in PNAS.

Erica multumbellifera in the Western Cape

New paper from UiB-led Global Conservation Consortium for Erica

GCC Erica paper sets out challenges and a plan of action for conserving the wealth of species in biodiversity hotspots.

Dispersal and diversification of the heathers (Erica; Ericaceae)

Open access paper published in 2019 shows the biogeographic route to spectacular diversification of the 800+ species of heathers.