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James E. Richardson

James E. Richardson

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
43
Citations
11885
World Ranking
3135
National Ranking
8

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
11934
World Ranking
5205
National Ranking
7

Overview

James E. Richardson is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Horticulture, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of work focus on Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Botany and Geology in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis.

James E. Richardson has published research in various venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • Plant Diversity
  • Science
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Matheus Colli-Silva
  • José Rubens Pirani
  • Rocío Cortés-B
  • Julieth Serrano
  • Mailyn González

Notable recent publications by James E. Richardson include:

  • How to fill the biodiversity data gap: Is it better to invest in fieldwork or curation? (2023), Plant Diversity
  • Untapped resources for medical research (2020), Science
  • Comparative phylogeography of an ant-plant mutualism: An encounter in the Andes (2021), Global and Planetary Change
  • Domestication of the Amazonian fruit tree cupuaçu may have stretched over the past 8000 years (2023), Communications Earth & Environment
  • Environmental and geographical biases in plant specimen data from the Colombian Andes (2022), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Best Publications

  • A DNA barcode for land plants.

    Peter M. Hollingsworth;Laura L. Forrest;John L. Spouge

  • Rapid diversification of a species-rich genus of neotropical rain forest trees

    James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson;R. Toby Pennington;Terence D. Pennington;Peter M. Hollingsworth

  • A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants

    Mark W. Chase;Robyn S. Cowan;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Cassio van den Berg

  • Selecting barcoding loci for plants: evaluation of seven candidate loci with species-level sampling in three divergent groups of land plants.

    Michelle L. Hollingsworth;Alex Andra Clark;Laura L. Forrest;James Richardson

  • Páramo is the world’s fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

    Santiago Madriñán;Andrés J. Cortés;Andrés J. Cortés;James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson

  • The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

    Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar;Kyle G. Dexter;John Lokvam;R. Toby Pennington

  • Historical biogeography of two cosmopolitan families of flowering plants: Annonaceae and Rhamnaceae.

    James E. Richardson;Lars Chatrou;Johan B. Mols;Roy Erkens

  • The Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG) III: A linear sequence of the families in APG III

    Elspeth Haston;James E. Richardson;Peter F. Stevens;Peter F. Stevens;Mark W. Chase

  • A phylogenetic analysis of Rhamnaceae using rbcL and trnL-F plastid DNA sequences.

    James E. Richardson;Michael F. Fay;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Diane Bowman;Diane Bowman

  • Patterns of molecular evolution and diversification in a biodiversity hotspot: the California Floristic Province

    Ryan Calsbeek;John N. Thompson;James E. Richardson

  • How to Open the Treasure Chest? Optimising DNA Extraction from Herbarium Specimens

    Tiina Särkinen;Martijn Staats;James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson;Robyn S. Cowan

  • Rapid and recent origin of species richness in the Cape flora of South Africa

    James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson;Frans M. Weitz;Frans M. Weitz;Michael F. Fay;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • Early evolutionary history of the flowering plant family Annonaceae: Steady diversification and boreotropical geodispersal

    Thomas L. P. Couvreur;Michael D. Pirie;Lars W. Chatrou;Richard M. K. Saunders

  • The Great American Biotic Interchange revisited

    Sarah Cody;James-Edward Richardson;James-Edward Richardson;Valentí Rull;Christopher Ellis

  • Insights into the historical construction of species-rich biomes from dated plant phylogenies, neutral ecological theory and phylogenetic community structure.

    R. Toby Pennington;James E. Richardson;Matt Lavin

  • Genomic treasure troves: complete genome sequencing of herbarium and insect museum specimens.

    Martijn Staats;Roy H. J. Erkens;Roy H. J. Erkens;Bart T. L. H. van de Vossenberg;Jan J. Wieringa

  • Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees.

    Thomas L.P. Couvreur;Lars W. Chatrou;Marc S. M Sosef;James E. Richardson

  • DNA Damage in Plant Herbarium Tissue

    Martijn Staats;Argelia Cuenca;James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson;Ria Vrielink van Ginkel

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • West to east dispersal and subsequent rapid diversification of the mega-diverse genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in the Malesian archipelago

    Daniel. C. Thomas;Daniel. C. Thomas;M. Hughes;T. Phutthai;W. H. Ardi

  • Biotic evolution and environmental change in Southeast Asia

    David Gower;Kenneth Johnson;James Richardson;Brian Rosen

Frequent Co-Authors

Freek T. Bakker
Freek T. Bakker Wageningen University & Research
József Geml
József Geml Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
R. Toby Pennington
R. Toby Pennington University of Exeter
Thomas L. P. Couvreur
Thomas L. P. Couvreur University of Montpellier
Michael F. Fay
Michael F. Fay Royal Botanic Gardens
Quentin C. B. Cronk
Quentin C. B. Cronk University of British Columbia
Richard I. Milne
Richard I. Milne University of Edinburgh
Arne A. Anderberg
Arne A. Anderberg Swedish Museum of Natural History
H. Peter Linder
H. Peter Linder University of Zurich

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