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David R. Greenwood

David R. Greenwood

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
8848
World Ranking
5247
National Ranking
219

Overview

David R. Greenwood is a researcher affiliated with Brandon University in Canada. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their contributions span multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

The main topics addressed in Greenwood's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Greenwood has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO 2, 2023, Science
  • Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 2020, Geology
  • Paleobotanical proxies for early Eocene climates and ecosystems in northern North America from middle to high latitudes, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Global and Zonal-Mean Hydrological Response to Early Eocene Warmth, 2023, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Conifers are a major source of sedimentary leaf wax n-alkanes when dominant in the landscape: Case studies from the Paleogene, 2020, Organic Geochemistry

Frequent publication venues in which they have appeared include:

  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • International Journal of Plant Sciences
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Palynology

Greenwood collaborates regularly with several researchers, with the most frequent co-authors being:

  • Christopher K. West
  • James F. Basinger
  • Tammo Reichgelt
  • John G. Conran
  • David K. Hutchinson

Best Publications

  • Eocene continental climates and latitudinal temperature gradients

    David R. Greenwood;Scott L. Wing

  • Fossils and fossil climate: the case for equable continental interiors in the Eocene

    Scott L. Wing;David R. Greenwood

  • USING FOSSIL LEAVES AS PALEOPRECIPITATION INDICATORS : AN EOCENE EXAMPLE

    Peter Wilf;Scott L. Wing;David R. Greenwood;Cathy L. Greenwood

  • Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch

    Jörg Pross;Lineth Contreras;Peter K. Bijl;David R. Greenwood

  • Increased seasonality through the Eocene to Oligocene transition in northern high latitudes

    James S. Eldrett;David R. Greenwood;Ian C. Harding;Matthew Huber

  • Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northeastern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape

    David R. Greenwood;S. Bruce Archibald;Rolf W. Mathewes;Patrick T. Moss

  • Significantly warmer Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies

    A. P. Ballantyne;D. R. Greenwood;J. S. Sinninghe Damsté;A. Z. Csank

  • Life at the top of the greenhouse Eocene world--A review of the Eocene flora and vertebrate fauna from Canada's High Arctic

    Jaelyn J. Eberle;David R. Greenwood

  • Taphonomic constraints on foliar physiognomie interpretations of Late Cretaceous and tertiary palaeoeclimates

    David R. Greenwood

  • Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects

    S. Bruce Archibald;William H. Bossert;David R. Greenwood;Brian D. Farrell

  • Odorant receptors from the light brown apple moth (Epiphyas postvittana) recognize important volatile compounds produced by plants.

    Melissa D. Jordan;Melissa D. Jordan;Alisha Anderson;Doreen Begum;Doreen Begum;Colm Carraher

  • Paleotemperature Estimation Using Leaf-Margin Analysis: Is Australia Different?

    David R. Greenwood;Peter Daniel Wilf;Scott L. Wing;David C. Christophel

  • How wet was the Arctic Eocene rain forest? Estimates of precipitation from Paleogene Arctic macrofloras

    David R. Greenwood;James F. Basinger;Robin Y. Smith

  • Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events

    Debra A. Willard;Timme H. Donders;Tammo Reichgelt;David R. Greenwood

  • Early Tertiary Vegetation of Arctic Canada and Its Relevance to Paleoclimatic Interpretation

    J. F. Basinger;D. R. Greenwood;D. R. Greenwood;T. Sweda;T. Sweda

  • The relation between global palm distribution and climate

    Tammo Reichgelt;Christopher K. West;David R. Greenwood

  • The paleoecology of high-latitude Eocene swamp forests from Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic

    David R. Greenwood;James F. Basinger

  • Regional and local vegetation community dynamics of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia Washington State) from palynology

    Patrick T. Moss;David R. Greenwood;S. Bruce Archibald

  • Onset of long-term cooling of Greenland near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary as revealed by branched tetraether lipids

    Stefan Schouten;James Eldrett;David R. Greenwood;Ian Harding

  • Estimating paleoatmospheric pCO2 during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum from stomatal frequency of Ginkgo, Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada.

    Robin Y. Smith;David R. Greenwood;James F. Basinger

  • Plant communities and climate change in southeastern Australia during the early Paleogene

    David R Greenwood;Patrick T Moss;Andrew I Rowett;Anthony J Vadala

  • Eocene continental climates and latitudinal temperature gradients: Comment and Reply

    Gregory J. Jordan;Scott L. Wing;David Greenwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Rolf W. Mathewes
Rolf W. Mathewes Simon Fraser University
J. Ian Raine
J. Ian Raine GNS Science
Stewart S. R. Jamieson
Stewart S. R. Jamieson Durham University
Bas van de Schootbrugge
Bas van de Schootbrugge Utrecht University
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
Matthew Huber
Matthew Huber Purdue University West Lafayette
Scott L. Wing
Scott L. Wing National Museum of Natural History
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland

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