Peter Breslin
PhD Student, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 874601
Tempe, AZ 85287-4601
Titles
- PhD Student, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Peter Breslin is a student in the Environmental Life Sciences PhD program at Arizona State University. He has been conducting botanical field work in the Sonoran Desert Region for 20 years, with a special focus on the Cactaceae. He is a co-author of A Field Guide to the Cacti and Succulents of Arizona, published by the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society. The focus of his PhD research is the population structure, population genetics and phylogeny of island endemic cacti in Baja California.
Journal Articles
2022
Breslin, P. B., M. F. Wojciechowski and L. C. Majure. 2022. Remarkably rapid, recent diversification of Cochemiea and Mammillaria (Cactaceae) in the Baja California, Mexico region. American Journal of Botany 109(9):1472-1487. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16048. (link )
2021
Breslin, P., M. F. Wojciechowski and L. C. Majure. 2021. Molecular phylogeny of the Mammilloid clade (Cactaceae) resolves the monophyly of Mammillaria. Taxon 70(2):308-323. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12451. (link )
2020
Breslin, P., M. F. Wojciechowski and F. Suzart de Albuquerque. 2020. Projected climate change threatens significant range contraction of Cochemiea halei (Cactaceae), an island endemic, serpentine-adapted plant species at risk of extinction. Ecology and Evolution 10(23):13211-13224. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6914. (link )