Michael Crisp

{{short description|Australian botanist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

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| image = Professor Michael Crisp.jpg

| name = Michael Crisp

| birth_name = Michael Douglas Crisp

| birth_date = {{birth_year_and_age|1950}}

| workplaces = Australian National University

| alma_mater = University of Adelaide

| thesis_title = Long-term change in arid zone vegetation at Koonamore, South Australia

| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/2440/20725

| thesis_year = 1976

| author_abbrev_bot = Crisp

}}

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Michael Douglas Crisp (born 1950) is an emeritus professor in the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University located in Canberra. In 1976, he gained a PhD from the University of Adelaide, studying long-term vegetation changes in arid zones of South Australia. In 2020, Crisp moved to Brisbane, where he has an honorary position at the University of Queensland.{{cite web|last1=Crisp|first1=Michael D.|title=Researcher Profile|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/crisp-md#biography|accessdate=1 April 2019|website=ANU College of Science|publisher=Australian National University}} Together with colleagues, he revised various pea-flowered legume genera (Daviesia,{{Cite Q|Q33106109}} Gastrolobium,{{Cite Q|Q28314967}} Gompholobium,{{Cite Q|Q55756208}} Pultenaea{{Cite Q|Q56967582}} and Jacksonia).{{Cite Q|Q55756205}}

He has made considerable contributions to biogeography,{{Cite Q|Q37819245}}{{Cite Q|Q67239915}}{{Cite Q|Q30844048|doi-access=free}}{{Cite Q|Q26786387}} phylogeny{{Cite Q|Q28947876}}{{Cite Q|Q60328405}}{{Cite Q|Q56967505}} and plant evolution.{{Cite Q|Q28657720|doi-access=free}}{{Cite Q|Q28652901|doi-access=free}}{{Cite Q|Q28751313}}

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