Sandra Knapp

Sandra Knapp, 2012

Sandra Diane Knapp , also Sandy (born December 9, 1956 ) is an American botanist . Her areas of interest are different groups of the nightshade ( Solanum ), but also other taxa of the nightshade family (Solanaceae), such as the tobacco genus ( Nicotiana ), the Anthocercidae and the Juanulloeae, as well as the nightshade family of Mesoamerica . Your official botanical author abbreviation is " S. Knapp ".

Life and research

In 1986 she received her PhD from Cornell University . Since 1992 she has been working at the Natural History Museum , where she is working on the creation of the “Flora Mesoamerica”. She is also one of the "Principal Investigators" of the PBI Solanum project, which is creating a modern treatment of the nightshade genus over a project period of five years (January 2004 - December 2008). In May 2010 Knapp published the first descriptions of four species of the nightshade genus ( Solanum aspersum , Solanum luculentum , Solanum sanchez-vegae and Solanum sousae ) in the online journal "PLoS ONE" and thus the first botanical first descriptions that were not in conventional, printed Literature appeared

Knapp is a member of the Council of Fauna and Flora International, the Linnean Society of London , whose Linné Medal she received in 2016, the Organization Pro-Flora Neotropica, the International Association of Plant Taxonomy and the Tropical Biology Association. She is co-editor of various scientific magazines, such as "BMC Evolutionary Biology", "Taxon", "Oryx" and "Systematics and Biodiversity". She is also a member of the "Faculty of 1000". In 2018 Knapp was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

• Solanum section Geminata (Solanaceae) . Bronx, New York 2002, ISBN 0-89327-441-0 (404 pages).
• The flower museum . Frederking & Thaler, 2004, ISBN 3-89405-477-8 (336 pages, 300 color photos).

supporting documents

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sandra Knapp: Four New Vining Species of Solanum (Dulcamaroid Clade) from Montane Habitats in Tropical America . In: PLoS One , Volume 5, Number 5, e10502, May 2010. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0010502
2. ^ Daniel Cressey: Linnaeus meets the Internet . In: Nature News , published online on May 5, 2010, accessed on December 4, 2010. doi: 10.1038 / news.2010.221

Main sources

• Short biography in the "Who's Who of Women and the Environment" of UNEP  ( page no longer available )
• Short biography on the project page of PBI Solanum  ( page no longer available )

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Sandra Knapp at the IPNI