William Russel Buck

William Russel Buck (1950– ), U.S. bryologist. Expertise: Pleurocarpus mosses

Curator, Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458

IPNI standard form: W.R.Buck

Taxon names authored

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• 10 taxon names authored by William Russel Buck

Publications

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• Buck, W.R. & Vitt, D.H. 1986. Suggestions for a new familial classification of pleurocarpous mosses. Taxon 35(1): 21–60. Reference page. 
• Buck, W.R. & Goffinet, B. 2000. Morphology and classification of mosses. pp. 71-123 in Shaw, A.J. & B. Goffinet (eds.) Bryophyte Biology, 1st ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66097-1
• Buck, W.R., Cox, C.J., Shaw, J. & Goffinet, B. 2004. Ordinal relationships of pleurocarpous mosses, with special emphasis on the Hookeriales. Systematics and Biodiversity 2: 121–145.
• Goffinet, B. & Buck, W.R. 2004. Systematics of the Bryophyta (mosses): from molecules to a revised classification. In Goffinet et al. (eds.), Molecular systematics of Bryophytes. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 98: 205–239. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Goffinet, B., Buck, W.R. & Shaw, A.J. 2008. Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta. In Goffinet & Shaw (eds.), Bryophyte Biology (ed. 2): 55–138. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Front Matter (PDF) Table of Contents (PDF) Index (PDF) Reference page. 
• Wynns, J.T., Keith, J.N., Murrell, Z.E., McFarland, K.D. & Buck, W.R. 2009. Studies on Aquatic Oxyrrhynchium (Brachytheciaceae), with an Emphasis on O. pringlei n. comb. The Bryologist 112(4): 786–803. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-112.4.786 . JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Seavey, F., Common, R.S., Beeching, S.Q., Breuss, O., Buck, W.R., Crane, L., Hodges, M., Hodkinson, B.P., Lay, E., Lendemer, J.C., McMullin, R.T., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Nelsen, M.P., Rivas Plata, E., Safranek, W., Sanders, W.B., Schaefer, H.P., Jr. & Seavey, J. 2011. The lichens of Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida: Proceedings from the 18th Tuckerman Workshop. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 49(4): 127–186. Florida Museum of Natural History (PDF) Reference page. 
• Wiersema, J.H., McNeill, J., Turland, N.J., Barrie, F.R., Buck, W.R., Demoulin, V., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D.L., Herendeen, P.S., Knapp, S.D., Marhold, K., Prado, J., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Smith, G.F. 2015. International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011 – Appendices II–VIII. Regnum Vegetabile 157: xix, 492 pp. Königstein: Koeltz, ISBN 978-3-87429-480-5 Internet version. Reference page. 
• Miądlikowska, J., Magain, N., Buck, W.R., Vargas Castillo, R., Barlow, G.T., Pardo-De la Hoz, C.J., LaGreca, S. & Lutzoni, F. 2020. Peltigera hydrophila (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new semi-aquatic cyanolichen species from Chile. Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(1): 210–218. DOI: 10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0016 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Goffinet, B., Buck, W.R. & Shaw, A.J. (2025) Classification of the Bryophyta (after Goffinet, Buck, & Shaw, 2008. Hosted at the Goffinet Lab.)

External links

• William R. Buck, Scientist at The New York Botanical Gardens
• Curriculum Vitae at The New York Botanical Gardens