Dianne Edwards

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Dianne Edwards (* 1942 ) is a British paleobotanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is D. Edwards . She is a professor at the University of Cardiff and has also been President of the Linnean Society since 2012 .

Research fields

Live reconstruction from Cooksonia

She studies early land plants from the Silurian and early Devonian , specifically from the Rhynie Chert in Scotland and in charred fossil remains in Wales and China (she works with the Beijing Museum of Natural History). She examines early plant fossils with an electron microscope .

In 1992 she discovered vessels in the early land plant Cooksonia from the Silurian and early Devonian. She interpreted coal finds from the Silurian as the earliest evidence of forest fires. In 1994 she found evidence that the earliest land plants in the Ordovician and Silurian were liverworts . She discovered and systematically examined the stomata in early land plants, examined fossil remains of uncertain classification such as Nematothallus , Prototaxites and Nematasketum and first described the moss-like tortilicaulis from the Silurian and Devonian.

Memberships and honors

Dianne Edwards is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1996), the Royal Society of Edinburgh , the Learned Society of Wales and Trustee of the Natural History Museum London and was a Trustee of the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. In 2014 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

In 1999 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2004 she received the Lyell Medal and in 2013 the Lapworth Medal of the Palaeontological Association . Also in 2013, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edwards, Dianne. Botanists Database, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries, accessed December 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ D. Edwards, KL Davies, L. Ax: A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia. In: Nature. Vol. 357, 1992, pp. 683-685, abstract .
  3. ^ D. Edwards, IJ Glasspool, L. Ax: Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire. In: Geology. Vol. 32, 2004, pp. 381-383, abstract .
  4. ↑ D. Edwards, JG Duckett, JB Richardson: Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants. In: Nature. Vol. 374, 1994, 635-636, abstract .
  5. ↑ D. Edwards, H. Kerp, H. Hass: Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach. In: Journal of Experimental Botany. Vol. 49, 1998, 255.
  6. ^ D. Edwards: Fragmentary non-vascular plant microfossils from the late Silurian of Wales. In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 84, 1982, 223-256.
  7. ^ D. Edwards, L. Ax: Evidence for a fungal affinity for Nematasketum, a close ally of Prototaxites. In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 168, 2012, 1-18.
  8. ^ D. Edwards: A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed. In: Palaeontology. Vol. 22, 1979, 23-52.
  9. ^ Directory of members: Dianne Edwards. Academia Europaea, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  10. ↑ BBC Special Report: Queens birthday honors. BBC News , June 12, 1999.
  11. ^ Professor Dianne Edwards CBE FRS, President of the Linnean Society of London, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Technical Faculty of Science at Uppsala University. Linnean Society , September 2, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, Dianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D. Edwards (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942