Erika Edwards
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US botanist, from 2021 professor at Yale University and director of the Marsh Botanical Garden
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Erika Jeannine Edwards is a professor at Yale University known for her work on evolution of plants. She is also the director of the Marsh Botanical Garden. Education and career Edwards has a B.S. from Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. from Yale University where she worked on the evolution of the Pereskia, a genus of cactus. Following her Ph.D. she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara before accepting a position at Brown University as an assistant professor in 2007. In 2017 she moved to Yale University as a professor and director of the Marsh Botanical Garden.
Erika Edwards's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science (2010) (843)
- The C(4) plant lineages of planet Earth. (2011) (501)
- Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages (2011) (417)
- Relations between stomatal closure, leaf turgor and xylem vulnerability in eight tropical dry forest trees (2003) (387)
- Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grasses (2010) (321)
- Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in grasses (2012) (220)
- Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold (2018) (206)
- Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants (2014) (206)
- A roadmap for research on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to enhance sustainable food and bioenergy production in a hotter, drier world. (2015) (180)
- Basal cactus phylogeny: implications of Pereskia (Cactaceae) paraphyly for the transition to the cactus life form. (2005) (170)
- Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses. (2008) (168)
- The Ecological Water-Use Strategies of Succulent Plants (2010) (165)
- Phytomass, LAI, and NDVI in northern Alaska: Relationships to summer warmth, soil pH, plant functional types, and extrapolation to the circumpolar Arctic (2003) (159)
- Molecular dating, evolutionary rates, and the age of the grasses. (2014) (156)
- Hydraulic basis for the evolution of photosynthetic productivity (2016) (147)
- Photosynthetic pathway and ecological adaptation explain stomatal trait diversity amongst grasses. (2012) (131)
- COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C3–C4 INTERMEDIATE FORMS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN MOLLUGINACEAE (2011) (127)
- Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer (2012) (119)
- The relevance of phylogeny to studies of global change. (2007) (108)
- C4 Photosynthesis Promoted Species Diversification during the Miocene Grassland Expansion (2014) (101)
- Angiosperm Responses to a Low-CO2 World: CAM and C4 Photosynthesis as Parallel Evolutionary Trajectories (2012) (101)
- C(4) eudicots are not younger than C(4) monocots. (2011) (92)
- Leaf life span and the leaf economic spectrum in the context of whole plant architecture (2014) (87)
- Pereskia and the Origin of the Cactus Life‐Form (2006) (85)
- DIPSACALES PHYLOGENY BASED ON CHLOROPLAST DNA SEQUENCES (2001) (83)
- Quantifying succulence: a rapid, physiologically meaningful metric of plant water storage. (2012) (80)
- Repeated Origin of Three-Dimensional Leaf Venation Releases Constraints on the Evolution of Succulence in Plants (2013) (78)
- Shared origins of a key enzyme during the evolution of C4 and CAM metabolism (2014) (78)
- Evolutionary trajectories, accessibility, and other metaphors: the case of C4 and CAM photosynthesis. (2019) (77)
- Evolution of leaf form correlates with tropical–temperate transitions in Viburnum (Adoxaceae) (2012) (76)
- Major Evolutionary Trends in Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation of Vascular Plant Leaf Waxes (2014) (76)
- Temperate radiations and dying embers of a tropical past: the diversification of Viburnum. (2015) (76)
- Is it easy to move and easy to evolve? Evolutionary accessibility and adaptation. (2013) (73)
- Anatomical variation in Cactaceae and relatives: Trait lability and evolutionary innovation. (2009) (70)
- Anchored Phylogenomics of Angiosperms I: Assessing the Robustness of Phylogenetic Estimates (2016) (69)
- Correlated evolution of stem and leaf hydraulic traits in Pereskia (Cactaceae). (2006) (69)
- Historical biogeography of the endemic Campanulaceae of Crete (2009) (68)
- Improving our understanding of environmental controls on the distribution of C3 and C4 grasses (2013) (65)
- Taxonomic and biogeographic implications of a phylogenetic analysis of the Campanulaceae based on three chloroplast genes (2009) (64)
- Parallel Recruitment of Multiple Genes into C4 Photosynthesis (2013) (60)
- The genetics of convergent evolution: insights from plant photosynthesis (2019) (57)
- Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses (2017) (53)
- Genetic enablers underlying the clustered evolutionary origins of C4 photosynthesis in angiosperms. (2015) (52)
- A chloroplast tree for Viburnum (Adoxaceae) and its implications for phylogenetic classification and character evolution. (2014) (52)
- Land surface skin temperature captures thermal environments of C3 and C4 grasses (2014) (49)
- Phylogenetic niche conservatism in C4 grasses (2012) (47)
- Life history lability underlies rapid climate niche evolution in the angiosperm clade Montiaceae. (2015) (44)
- Topological Data Analysis as a Morphometric Method: Using Persistent Homology to Demarcate a Leaf Morphospace (2018) (44)
- Multiple photosynthetic transitions, polyploidy, and lateral gene transfer in the grass subtribe Neurachninae (2012) (44)
- Variations On A Theme: Repeated Evolution Of Succulent Life Forms In the Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) (2008) (41)
- Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Vegetation Properties among Four Tundra Plant Communities at Ivotuk, Alaska, U.S.A (2005) (40)
- Phylogeny and generic delimitation in Molluginaceae, new pigment data in Caryophyllales, and the new family Corbichoniaceae (2016) (38)
- Convergence, Consilience, and the Evolution of Temperate Deciduous Forests* (2017) (38)
- Introgression and repeated co‐option facilitated the recurrent emergence of C4 photosynthesis among close relatives (2017) (38)
- Unpacking a century-old mystery: Winter buds and the latitudinal gradient in leaf form. (2016) (36)
- Targeted Enrichment of Large Gene Families for Phylogenetic Inference: Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of Photosynthesis Genes in the Portullugo Clade (Caryophyllales) (2018) (35)
- Restriction‐Site‐Associated DNA Sequencing Reveals a Cryptic Viburnum Species on the North American Coastal Plain (2018) (33)
- The Evolution of Photosynthetic Anatomy in Viburnum (Adoxaceae) (2013) (33)
- Ecological physiology of Pereskia guamacho, a cactus with leaves. (2006) (31)
- Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis (2019) (29)
- Doubtful pathways to cold tolerance in plants (2015) (26)
- Optional use of CAM photosynthesis in two C4 species, Portulaca cyclophylla and Portulaca digyna. (2017) (25)
- Functional diversification enabled grassy biomes to fill global climate space (2019) (24)
- Leaf Form Evolution in Viburnum Parallels Variation within Individual Plants (2017) (23)
- Australia lacks stem succulents but is it depauperate in plants with crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)? (2016) (22)
- Ecological and evolutionary variation in community nitrogen use traits during tropical dry forest secondary succession. (2016) (21)
- Effect of genetic convergence on phylogenetic inference. (2012) (21)
- Phylogeny and the inference of evolutionary trajectories (2014) (20)
- Joint phylogenetic estimation of geographic movements and biome shifts during the global diversification of Viburnum (2019) (20)
- Joint phylogenetic estimation of geographic movements and biome shifts during the global diversification of Viburnum. (2020) (20)
- Facultative crassulacean acid metabolism in a C3–C4 intermediate (2019) (19)
- Facultative CAM photosynthesis (crassulacean acid metabolism) in four species of Calandrinia, ephemeral succulents of arid Australia (2017) (18)
- Differences in flowering time maintain species boundaries in a continental radiation of Viburnum. (2019) (18)
- Developmental and biophysical determinants of grass leaf size worldwide (2021) (17)
- Model clades are vital for comparative biology, and ascertainment bias is not a problem in practice: a response to Beaulieu and O'Meara (2018). (2019) (17)
- Investigating Pereskia and the Earliest Divergences In Cactaceae (2008) (16)
- The evolution of CAM photosynthesis in Australian Calandrinia reveals lability in C3+CAM phenotypes and a possible constraint to the evolution of strong CAM. (2019) (14)
- C4 and crassulacean acid metabolism within a single leaf: deciphering key components behind a rare photosynthetic adaptation. (2020) (14)
- Molecular evolution of key metabolic genes during transitions to C4 and CAM photosynthesis. (2018) (13)
- Phylogeny, evolution, and biogeographic history of Calandrinia (Montiaceae). (2018) (12)
- Correlation, causation, and the evolution of leaf teeth: A reply to Givnish and Kriebel. (2017) (11)
- Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past (2019) (11)
- Bayesian Genome Assembly and Assessment by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling (2013) (11)
- Lineage-based functional types: characterising functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behaviour in Land Surface Models. (2020) (10)
- Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past. (2020) (10)
- Crassulacean acid metabolism in the Basellaceae (Caryophyllales). (2018) (9)
- Crassulacean acid metabolism (2020) (8)
- Parallel Recruitment ofMultiple Genes into C 4 Photosynthesis (2013) (7)
- Evolutionary dynamics of genome size in a radiation of woody plants. (2020) (7)
- 2587) Proposal to conserve the name Parakeelya against Rumicastrum (Montiaceae). (2018) (5)
- Facultative CAM in a C3 - C4 Intermediate. (2019) (4)
- Gene co-expression reveals the modularity and integration of C4 and CAM in Portulaca (2021) (4)
- Persistent homology demarcates a leaf morphospace (2017) (4)
- Rapid report New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C 4 origins (2011) (4)
- CAM photosynthesis in desert blooming Cistanthe of the Atacama, Chile. (2021) (3)
- The legacy of C4 evolution in the hydraulics of C3 and C4 grasses (2020) (3)
- Spatial resolution of an integrated C4+CAM photosynthetic metabolism (2021) (3)
- Replicated radiation of a plant clade along a cloud forest archipelago (2022) (3)
- Calling attention to the new Brown University Herbarium (2014) (3)
- Characterization of 16 microsatellite markers for the Oreinotinus clade of Viburnum (Adoxaceae)1 (2016) (3)
- The inevitability of C4 photosynthesis (2014) (3)
- Phylogeny and Systematics of Kewa (Kewaceae) (2018) (2)
- Climates and clades: biased methods, biased results (2014) (2)
- The future biogeography of C3 and C4 grasslands (2019) (2)
- Data from: Leaf form evolution in Viburnum parallels variation within individual plants (2017) (1)
- Celebrating a New Division of Botany at SICB: An Introduction to the Integrative Plant Biology Symposium. (2019) (1)
- Phylogenetic niche conservatism in C4 grasses (2012) (1)
- Arctic Vegetation Plots ATLAS Project North Slope and Seward Peninsula, AK, 1998-2000 (2018) (1)
- Targeted Enrichment of Large Gene Families for Phylogenetic Inference: Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of Photosynthesis Genes in the Portullugo (Caryophyllales) (2017) (1)
- photosynthetic efficiency—may have evolved first to correct an intercellular nitrogen imbalance, and only later evolved a central role in carbon fixation. (2014) (0)
- Publisher Correction: Replicated radiation of a plant clade along a cloud forest archipelago (2022) (0)
- The genetics of convergent evolution: insights from plant photosynthesis (2019) (0)
- NEBC 120th Anniversary Botanical Research Conference Presentations (2015) (0)
- Gene co-expression reveals the modularity and integration of C4 and CAM in Portulaca. (2022) (0)
- Erratum (2006) (0)
- Facultative CAM photosynthesis (crassulacean acid metabolism) in four species of Calandrinia, ephemeral succulents of arid Australia (2017) (0)
- Fast T rack Genetic Enablers Underlying the Clustered Evolutionary Origins of C 4 Photosynthesis in Angiosperms (2015) (0)
- New England Specimens In the Brown University Herbarium (2016) (0)
- Systematic update of Caryophyllaceae in Peru : diversity and distribution (0)
- Celebrating Giant Steps toward a Synthetic History of Angiosperm Evolution (2012) (0)
- Lineage Functional Types (LFTs): Characterizing functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behavior in Earth System Models (2020) (0)
- Building a High-Resolution, Specimen-Based Picture of Life: Possibilities and Challenges (2012) (0)
- Diversification in evolutionary arenas – assessment and 1 synthesis 2 3 (2019) (0)
- The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography.The Southwest Center Series. ByDavid Yetman. Tucson (Arizona): University of Arizona Press. $59.95. ix + 297 p.; ill.; general and scientific names indexes. 978‐0‐8165‐2431‐0. 2007. (2009) (0)
- Expanding the Range of Plant Functional Diversity Represented in Global Vegetation Models: Towards Lineage-based Plant Functional Types (2014) (0)
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