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Hans Kerp is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their research spans across multiple disciplines in agricultural and biological sciences as well as earth and planetary sciences.

The main fields of Kerp's work include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader areas, Kerp focuses on several subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Paleontology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Atmospheric Science

Key topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research

Hans Kerp has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Benjamin Bomfleur
  • Patrick Blomenkemper
  • Abdalla Abu Hamad
  • William A. DiMichele
  • Jun Wang

Research outputs by Kerp have appeared predominantly in these publication venues:

  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Paläontologische Zeitschrift
  • eLife
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Hans Kerp include:

  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': Myanmar amber" (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': the importance of private collections" (2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift)
  • "An evidence-based 3D reconstruction of Asteroxylon mackiei, the most complex plant preserved from the Rhynie chert" (2021, eLife)
  • "Palynology and vegetation dynamics across the Permian-Triassic boundary in southern Tibet" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Contributions towards whole-plant reconstructions of Dicroidium plants (Umkomasiaceae) from the Permian of Jordan" (2020, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology)

Best Publications

  • Fungal endophytes in a 400-million-yr-old land plant: infection pathways, spatial distribution, and host responses.

    Michael Krings;Thomas N. Taylor;Hagen Hass;Hans Kerp

  • Fossil arbuscular mycorrhizae from the Early Devonian

    Thomas N. Taylor;Winfried Remy;Hagen Hass;Hans Kerp

  • The Study of Fossil Gymnosperms by Means of Cuticular Analysis

    Hans Kerp

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

    Dianne Edwards;H. Kerp;H. Hass

  • The oldest fossil ascomycetes

    T. N. Taylor;H. Hass;H. Kerp

  • Fungi from the Rhynie chert: a view from the dark side

    T. N. Taylor;S. D. Klavins;M. Krings;E. L. Taylor

  • The oldest fossil lichen

    T. N. Taylor;H G Hass;W Remy;H Kerp

  • A cyanolichen from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert.

    Thomas N. Taylor;Hagen Hass;Hans Kerp

  • Post-Variscan late Palaeozoic Northern Hemisphere gymnosperms: the onset to the Mesozoic

    Hans Kerp

  • Bias of the paleobotanical record as a consequence of variations in the chemical composition of higher vascular plant cuticles

    Erik W. Tegelaar;Hans Kerp;Henk Visscher;Pieter A. Schenck

  • Typical Triassic Gondwanan floral elements in the Upper Permian of the paleotropics

    Hans Kerp;Abdalla Abu Hamad;Birgit Vörding;Klaus Bandel

  • Photography of plant fossils—New techniques, old tricks

    Hans Kerp;Benjamin Bomfleur

  • The so-called "Paleophytic-Mesophytic" transition in equatorial Pangea — Multiple biomes and vegetational tracking of climate change through geological time

    William A. DiMichele;Hans Kerp;Neil J. Tabor;Cynthia V. Looy

  • A Late Permian flora with Dicroidium from the Dead Sea region, Jordan

    Abdalla Abu Hamad;Hans Kerp;Birgit Vörding;Klaus Bandel

  • The land plant δ13C record and plant evolution in the Late Palaeozoic

    Wolfgang Peters-Kottig;Harald Strauss;Hans Kerp

  • Spores of the Rhynie chert plant Aglaophyton (Rhynia) major (Kidston and Lang) D.S. Edwards, 1986

    Charles H. Wellman;Hans Kerp;Hagen Hass

  • How Paleozoic Vines and Lianas Got off the Ground: On Scrambling and Climbing Carboniferous–Early Permian Pteridosperms

    Michael Krings;Hans Kerp;Thomas N. Taylor;Edith L. Taylor

  • The Modernization of Landscapes during the Late Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic

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  • Palaeonema phyticum gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Palaeonematidae fam. n.), a Devonian nematode associated with early land plants

    Hagen Hass;Hans Kerp;George Poinar

  • A harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Early Devonian Rhynie cherts, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

    Jason A. Dunlop;Lyall I. Anderson;Hans Kerp;Hagen Hass

  • Wildfires in the Late Palaeozoic of Central Europe - The Zechstein (Upper Permian) of NW-Hesse (Germany)

    Dieter Uhl;Hans Kerp

  • Le renouvellement des flores au passage Carbonifère Permien : approches stratigraphique, biologique, sédimentologique

    J Broutin;J Doubinger;G Farjanel;P Freytet

  • Mesozoic seed ferns: Old paradigms, new discoveries1

    Edith L. Taylor;Thomas N. Taylor;Hans Kerp;Elizabeth J. Hermsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas N. Taylor
Thomas N. Taylor University of Kansas
Michael Krings
Michael Krings Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Spencer G. Lucas
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
Jun Wang
Jun Wang University of Central Florida
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Dieter Uhl
Dieter Uhl University of Tübingen
Christopher Walker
Christopher Walker Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution

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