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  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Dianne Edwards is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on areas such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Fern and Epiphyte Biology, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, and Bryophyte Studies and Records.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Piecing together the eophytes - a new group of ancient plants containing cryptospores," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "Earliest record of transfer cells in Lower Devonian plants," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "Picking up the pieces: New charcoalified plant mesofossils (eophytes) from a Lower Devonian Lagerstӓtte in the Welsh Borderland, UK," 2021, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • "Further evidence for fungivory in the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, UK," 2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift
  • "Lower Devonian Lycophytes from Sichuan and the Paleogeographic Context of Coeval Plant Assemblages from South China," 2022, International Journal of Plant Sciences

Frequent co-authors working alongside Dianne Edwards include:

  • Jennifer L. Morris
  • Lindsey Axe
  • Jeffrey G. Duckett
  • Silvia Pressel
  • Paul Kenrick

The main publication venues where their work appears include:

  • New Phytologist
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Paläontologische Zeitschrift
  • International Journal of Plant Sciences
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Dianne Edwards' research spans several subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. The diversity of topics reveals a multidisciplinary approach anchored in both biological and earth sciences.

In recognition of academic contributions, Dianne Edwards was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • The timescale of early land plant evolution

    Jennifer L. Morris;Mark N. Puttick;James W. Clark;Dianne Edwards

  • Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance

    J. A. Raven;Dianne Edwards

  • The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

    Mark N. Puttick;Mark N. Puttick;Jennifer L. Morris;Jennifer L. Morris;Tom A. Williams;Cymon J. Cox

  • Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire

    Ian J. Glasspool;Dianne Edwards;Lindsey Axe

  • Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach

    Dianne Edwards;H. Kerp;H. Hass

  • Land animals in the silurian: arachnids and myriapods from shropshire, England.

    Andrew J. Jeram;Paul A. Selden;Dianne Edwards

  • A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia

    Dianne Edwards;K. L. Davies;Lindsey Axe

  • Evolutionary Patterns and Processes

    D. R. Lees;Dianne Edwards

  • Understanding fossilization: Experimental pyritization of plants

    Stephen T. Grimes;Fiona Brock;David Rickard;Kevin L. Davies

  • New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a lilliputian world

    Dianne Edwards

  • Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants

    Dianne Edwards;J. G. Duckett;J. B. Richardson

  • Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

    Dianne Edwards;Jennifer Louise Morris;Jennifer Louise Morris;John B. Richardson;Paul Kenrick

  • The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

    Rosmarie Honegger;Dianne Edwards;Lindsey Axe

  • Embryophytes on land: the Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) record

    Dianne Edwards;Charles Wellman

  • Records of Cooksonia-type sporangia from late Wenlock strata in Ireland

    Dianne Edwards;J. Feehan

  • Silurian and Lower Devonian plant assemblages from the Anglo‐Welsh Basin: a palaeobotanical and palynological synthesis

    Dianne Edwards;John B. Richardson

  • Basin redox and primary productivity within the Mesoproterozoic Roper Seaway

    Grant M. Cox;Grant M. Cox;Grant M. Cox;Amber Jarrett;Dianne Edwards;Peter W. Crockford

  • Coprolites as evidence for plant-animal interaction in Siluro-Devonian terrestrial ecosystems

    Dianne Edwards;Paul A. Selden;John B. Richardson;Lindsey Axe

  • Hydrogen in Australian natural gas: occurrences, sources and resources

    Christopher J. Boreham;Dianne S. Edwards;Krystian Czado;Nadege Rollet

  • Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization

    Stephen T. Grimes;Stephen T. Grimes;Kevin L. Davies;Ian B. Butler;Fiona Brock

  • A late Wenlock flora from Co. Tipperary, Ireland

    Dianne Edwards;J. Feehan;D. G. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Kenrick
Paul Kenrick Natural History Museum
Charles H. Wellman
Charles H. Wellman University of Sheffield
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee
Paul A. Selden
Paul A. Selden University of Kansas
Jeffrey G. Duckett
Jeffrey G. Duckett Queen Mary University of London
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Christopher J. Boreham
Christopher J. Boreham Geoscience Australia
Rosmarie Honegger
Rosmarie Honegger University of Zurich
Silvia Pressel
Silvia Pressel Natural History Museum
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London

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