Wyatt, Robert Edward   (1950 -  )

Born on 15 July 1950 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

Attended high school in Statesville, North Carolina, USA.

He received his bachelor's degree in Botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1972) and his doctorate, also in Botany with a minor in Zoology, from Duke University (1977).

He taught 1977-1979 at Texas A&M University, then at University of Georgia, before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia, where he was a Professor of Botany and Ecology for more than twenty years and later continued as an adjunct appointment.

From 1999 he served as the Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station in the mountains of western North Carolina, an interinstitutional center of the University of North Carolina.

From 1999 he was also Adjunct Professor of Ecology at University of Georgia.

From the outset, his research interests blended plant evolution, ecology, and systematics to focus on plant reproduction.

Over the years he received numerous awards for teaching, as well as research, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to produce a book entitled 'Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction'.

He traveled widely to give lectures, short courses, and do research in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Sweden, Norway, China, and Japan.

He trained more than forty graduate students, and published more than 150 scientific papers.

As a result of his Australian visit he published a bryophyte paper titled 'Bryophytes of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia' with his wife Ann Stoneburner and Stephen D. Hopper in 2024.

NOTE
All of his work involving Australian bryophytes has been done in Western Australia in collaboration with Steve Hopper. About 130+ collections in AVH from eastern Australia, some with initials "Wyatt, R." and some with the initials "Wyatt, R.A." are different collectors.

Collecting localities for 'Wyatt, R.' (filtered) from AVH (2026)

Data from 874 specimens