Blunt-lobed woodsia (Woodsia obtusa) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

Biographical Summary of Report Writer

Matthew Wild is a Ph.D. candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His thesis is on the causes of rarity of blunt-lobed woodsia in Canada. He completed an M.Sc. in 2003, on five rare fern species in Canada, the results of which were recently published in Ecography (Wild and Gagnon 2005). He has written several provincial status reports in Quebec on ferns including blunt-lobed woodsia, walking fern (Asplenium rhizophyllum) and purple-stemmed cliff brake (Pellaea atropurpurea).

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