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Anthony R. Brach


Staff Member of Missouri Botanical Garden and Research Associate of the Harvard 
University Herbaria.

General Interests: Flora of China, electronic floras, interactive identification 
keys, and botanical and ecological databases and web indices.

Current Projects: Editorial committee member for the Flora of China Project, and 
collaborating on eFloras, ActKey, the Internet Directory for Botany and the Ecology WWW Page.

Publications
Brach, A. R. 2008. Exploring botanical history using Ancestry.com. Harvard 
Papers in Botany 13(2): 245-251.

Min, T. L. & A. R. Brach. 2008. Coriariaceae (pp. 333-334) in Wu Z. Y., P. H. 
Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 11. Science Press & Missouri 
Botanical Garden. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume11/Coriariaceae.pdf "].

Guo, L. X. & A. R. Brach. 2007. Sabiaceae (pp. 25-42) in Wu Z. Y., P. H. Raven 
& D. Y. Hong (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 12. Science Press & Missouri 
Botanical Garden. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume12/Sabiaceae.pdf"].

Ma, J. S. & A. R. Brach. 2007. The identity of cultivated Phellodendron 
(Rutaceae) in North America. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1(1): 357-365.

Qin, H. N. & A. R. Brach. 2007. Crypteroniaceae (p. 292) in Wu Z. Y., P. H. 
Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 13. Science Press & Missouri 
Botanical Garden. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume13/Crypteroniaceae.pdf "].

Brach, A. R. & H. Song. 2006. eFloras: New directions for online floras 
exemplified by the Flora of China Project. Taxon 55(1): 188-192. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/misc/eFloras_Taxon_55_188-192_2006.pdf "].

Brach, A. R. & H. Song. 2005. ActKey: a Web-based interactive identification 
key program. Taxon 54(4): 1041–1046. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/misc/ActKey_Taxon_54_1041-1046_2005.pdf "]

Brach, A. R. & N. H. Xia. 2005. Saururaceae, Species Plantarum: Flora of the 
World Part 11: 1-12.

Brach, A. R. 2004. Interactive key to Cotoneaster in the Flora of Nepal. 
[" http://www.efloras.org/key_page.aspx?set_id=10052&flora_id=1130 "].

Lu, L. T. & A. R. Brach. 2003. Cotoneaster (pp. 85-108) in Wu Z. Y., P. H. 
Raven & D. Y. Hong(eds.) Flora of China. Volume 9. Science Press & Missouri 
Botanical Garden. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF09/Cotoneaster.PDF"].

Lu, L. T. & A. R. Brach. 2002. New combinations in Chinese Cotoneaster 
(Rosaceae). Novon 12(4): 495-496. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/novon/novo-12-4-495.pdf"].

Li, L. Q. & A. R. Brach. 2001. Cimicifuga (pp. 144-147) in Wu Z. Y., P. H. 
Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 6. Science Press & 
Missouri Botanical Garden. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF06/CIMICIFUGA.pdf"].

Xia, N. H. & A. R. Brach. 1999. Saururaceae (pp. 108-109) in Wu Z. Y. & P. H. 
Raven (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 4. Science Press & Missouri Botanical 
Garden. 
[" http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume04/SAURURACEAE.published.pdf "].

Ma, J. S., Quan-ru Liu & A. R. Brach. 1999. A revision of the genus 
Tripterygium (Celastraceae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 56(1): 33-46.

Hurd, T. M., A. R. Brach & D. J. Raynal. 1998. Response of understory 
vegetation of Adirondack forests to nitrogen additions. Can. J. For. Res. 28: 
799-807.

Brach, A. R. (ed.) 1996 to present. Flora of China Web. 
[" http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/"].

Brach, A. R. 1996. The Flora of China on the World Wide Web (WWW). pp. 
104-106 in Zhang Aoluo & Wu Sugong (eds.) Proceedings of the First 
International Symposium on Floristic Characteristics and Diversity of East 
Asian Plants, July 25-27. 1996, Kunming, Yunnan, P.R. China. China Higher 
Education Press, Beijing & Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Brach, A. R. 1996. Advancing Ecology on the Internet - A Commentary. 
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 77(2): 123.

Brach, A. R. 1995. Botany and the INTERNET: Useful and interesting World 
Wide Web servers. Commentary. Plant Science Bulletin 41(1): 7-8.

Brach, A. R. 1995. Ecology and the World Wide Web. Commentary. Bulletin of 
the Ecological Society of America 76(2): 112-113.

Brach, A. R. 1993. Effects of nitrogen addition and altered irradiance on 
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) Gray and Dennstaedtia punctilobula 
(Michx.) Moore. Ph.D. Dissertation. SUNY-ESF. Syracuse, New York.

Brach, A. R., S. J. McNaughton & D. J. Raynal. 1993. Photosynthetic 
adaptability of two fern species of a northern hardwood forest. American 
Fern Journal 83: 47-53.

Smallidge, P. J., A. R. Brach & I. R. Mackun. 1993. Effects of watershed 
liming on terrestrial ecosystem processes. Environmental Reviews 1: 157-171.

Brach, A. R. & D. J. Raynal. 1992. Effects of liming on Oxalis acetosella and 
Lycopodium lucidulum. Journal of Applied Ecology 29: 492-500.

Brach, A. R. 1990. Effects of lime on the forest floor vegetation in a 
northern hardwood forest. M.S. Thesis. SUNY-ESF. Syracuse, New York.

Mackun, I. R., P. J. Smallidge, A. R. Brach, D. J. Leopold & D. J. Raynal. 
1990. Upland vegetation responses to watershed liming studied (New York). 
Restoration & Management Notes 8: 36-37.

Raynal, D. J., A. R. Brach & C. L. Demers. 1988. Characterization of 
atmospheric deposition at Huntington Forest, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 
1978-1987. State University of New York - College of Environmental Science & 
Forestry, Syracuse, New York.

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