Dr Mark Carine

Dr Mark Carine

Principal Curator in Charge, Algae, Fungi

ORCID: 0000-0002-1817-0281
Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Algae, Fungi and Plants Division
Group: Other
Specialisms: Botanical collections, Island biogeography, Macaronesia, plant systematics, Acanthaceae,
Email: m.carine@nhm.ac.uk
  • Phone: 2079425541

Summary

I am Principal Curator in Charge of the Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, managing the team responsible for curating the museum's botanical collections. I am a plant systematist with particular interests in island floras and biogeography,

I am working on a number of taxa and island systems in the Atlantic and I am interested in the use of historical collections to inform our understanding of island diversity patterns.

I currently curate the Sloane herbarium and other pre-Linnean collections in the Algae, Fungi and Plants Division. I am interested in developing these collections for both scientific and historical research.

Qualifications

Degrees

  • DPhil, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 1995 - 1999
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Oxford University Department of Educational Studies, United Kingdom, 1992 - 1993
  • BSc(Hons) Botany, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 1988 - 1991

Academic

  • Principal Curator in Charge, Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, United Kingdon, 2016 - ongoing
  • Researcher, Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2001 - 2016
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Reading, Department of Botany, United Kingdom, 2000 - 2001
  • Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences, United Kingdom, 1999 - 2000

Highlighted publications

  • Scott B, Pickering V, Coulton R, Nyhan J, Carine M (2025) Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753). Systematics and Biodiversity 23, doi: 10.1080/14772000.2025.2455440
  • Thorogood C, Carine M, Reyes-Betancourt A (2025) Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands. null - null.
  • Graham RE, Reyes-Betancort JA, Chapman MA, Carine MA (2021) Inter-island differentiation and contrasting patterns of diversity in the iconic Canary Island sub-alpine endemic Echium wildpretii (Boraginaceae). Systematics and Biodiversity 19, 507 - 525. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1877847
  • Nelson EC (2021) CARINE, Mark (editor). <i>The collectors. Creating Hans Sloane's extraordinary herbarium</i>. 48, Edinburgh University Press 411 - 412. doi: 10.3366/anh.2021.0738
  • White OW, Reyes‐Betancort JA, Chapman MA, Carine MA (2020) Geographical isolation, habitat shifts and hybridisation in the diversification of the Macaronesian endemic genus Argyranthemum (Asteraceae). New Phytologist 228, 1953 - 1971. doi: 10.1111/nph.16980
  • Penn MG, Cafferty S, Carine M (2018) Mapping the history of botanical collectors: spatial patterns, diversity, and uniqueness through time. Systematics and Biodiversity 16, 1 - 13. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1355854
  • White OW, Reyes‐Betancort A, Chapman MA, Carine MA (2018) Independent homoploid hybrid speciation events in the Macaronesian endemic genusArgyranthemum. Molecular Ecology 27, 4856 - 4874. doi: 10.1111/mec.14889
  • Scotland R, Wood J, R.M. Williams B, Mitchell TC, Carine M, Harris D A foundation monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae). PhytoKeys 51, 1 - 282. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.51.7104

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