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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Beryl B. Simpson is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond, and Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Oscar M. Vargas, Deise J.P. Gonçalves, Gustavo Hiroaki Shimizu, Edgardo M. Ortiz, and Robert K. Jansen.

Key recent papers authored by Beryl B. Simpson include:

  • Historical biogeography of Vochysiaceae reveals an unexpected perspective of plant evolution in the Neotropics, 2020, American Journal of Botany
  • Allopatric speciation is more prevalent than parapatric ecological divergence in a recent high-Andean diversification (Linochilus: Asteraceae), 2023, PeerJ
  • Towards a Monophyletic Infrageneric Circumscription of Adesmia DC. (Dalbergieae, Leguminosae): a Taxonomic Revision in Adesmia series Adesmia, 2024, Phytotaxa

The venues where Beryl B. Simpson has frequently published comprise the American Journal of Botany, PeerJ, and Phytotaxa.

Beryl B. Simpson has been recognized with awards including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1984.

Best Publications

  • Paraphyly of Tarasa (Malvaceae) and Diverse Origins of the Polyploid Species

    Jennifer A. Tate;Jennifer A. Tate;Beryl B. Simpson

  • Evolution and environment in tropical America

    Beryl B. Simpson

  • Floral Rewards: Alternatives to Pollen and Nectar

    Beryl B. Simpson;John L. Neff

  • Pleistocene changes in the flora of the high tropical Andes

    Beryl B. Simpson

  • Evolution and diversity of floral rewards

    B. B. Simpson;J. L. Neff

  • The phylogenetic history and biogeography of the frankincense and myrrh family (Burseraceae) based on nuclear and chloroplast sequence data.

    Andrea Weeks;Douglas C. Daly;Beryl B. Simpson

  • Speciation Patterns in the Amazonian Forest Biota

    Beryl B. Simpson;Jürgen Haffer

  • Oil-collecting structures in the Anthophoridae (Hymenoptera): morphology, function, and use in systematics.

    Neff Jl;Simpson Bb

  • A Revision of the Genus Polylepis (Rosaceae: Sanguisorbeae)

    Beryl Brintnall. Simpson

  • Components of regulation of a population of dandelions in Michigan.

    Otto T. Solbrig;Beryl B. Simpson

  • Conflicting phylogenomic signals reveal a pattern of reticulate evolution in a recent high‐Andean diversification (Asteraceae: Astereae: Diplostephium)

    Oscar M. Vargas;Oscar M. Vargas;Edgardo M. Ortiz;Beryl B. Simpson

  • Phylogenetic Relationships and Chromosome Number Evolution in Passiflora

    A. Katie Hansen;Lawrence E. Gilbert;Beryl B. Simpson;Stephen R. Downie

  • Incongruence between gene trees and species trees and phylogenetic signal variation in plastid genes

    Deise J.P. Gonçalves;Beryl B. Simpson;Edgardo M. Ortiz;Gustavo H. Shimizu

  • PHYLOGENY OF AGAVACEAE BASED ON ITS RDNA SEQUENCE VARIATION

    David J. Bogler;Beryl B. Simpson

  • The Phylogeny of Linum and Linaceae Subfamily Linoideae, with Implications for Their Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Heterostyly

    Joshua McDill;Miriam Repplinger;Beryl B. Simpson;Joachim W. Kadereit

  • Mesquite, its biology in two desert scrub ecosystems.

    B B Simpson

  • Bees, pollination systems and plant diversity

    J.L. Neff;B.B. Simpson

  • Biogeography and Breeding System Evolution of the Woody Bencomia Alliance (Rosaceae) in Macaronesia Based on ITS Sequence Data

    D. Megan Helfgott;Javier Francisco-Ortega;Arnoldo Santos-Guerra;Robert K. Jansen

  • Breeding systems of dominant perennial plants of two disjunct warm desert ecosystems.

    Beryl B. Simpson

  • Glacial migrations of plants: island biogeographical evidence.

    Beryl B. Simpson

  • Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines

    Beryl B. Simpson;John A. Endler

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert K. Jansen
Robert K. Jansen The University of Texas at Austin
Robert K. Jansen
Robert K. Jansen The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas E. Juenger
Thomas E. Juenger The University of Texas at Austin
Joachim W. Kadereit
Joachim W. Kadereit Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Rowan F. Sage
Rowan F. Sage University of Toronto
Stephen R. Downie
Stephen R. Downie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick S. Herendeen
Patrick S. Herendeen George Washington University
Ann M. Hirsch
Ann M. Hirsch University of California, Los Angeles
Anne Bruneau
Anne Bruneau University of Montreal
Neal L. Evenhuis
Neal L. Evenhuis Bernice P. Bishop Museum

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