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Terry A. Hedderson is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing to various subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecology, Oceanography, and Genetics.

Their main topics of work cover:

  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Bryophyte Studies and Records
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

Frequent co-authors of Terry A. Hedderson include:

  • Nicholas Wilding
  • Claudine Ah-Peng
  • Lovanomenjanahary Marline
  • C. Ah-Peng
  • Des A. Callaghan

The scientist publishes regularly in several academic venues, with the most frequent being the Journal of Bryology, where they have contributed seven publications. Other notable venues include Plant Ecology and Evolution, Biotropica, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, and American Journal of Botany.

Recent papers by Terry A. Hedderson demonstrate a focus on bryophyte and lichen research as well as plant ecology. These include:

  • New national and regional bryophyte records, 65 (2021) in Journal of Bryology
  • Epiphytic bryophyte diversity and range distributions along an elevational gradient in Marojejy, Madagascar (2020) in Biotropica
  • Crossroads of assembling a moss genome: navigating contaminants and horizontal gene transfer in the moss Physcomitrellopsis africana (2024) in G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Eco-phylogenetic study of Trebouxia in southern Africa reveals interbiome connectivity and potential endemism in a green algal lichen photobiont (2024) in American Journal of Botany
  • Monophyly and transoceanic dispersal in the widespread floating club-rush clade, Isolepis subgenus Fluitantes (Cyperaceae) (2022) in Plant Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • A DNA barcode for land plants.

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

  • Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots

    Félix Forest;Félix Forest;Richard Grenyer;Mathieu Rouget;T Jonathan Davies;T Jonathan Davies

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

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

  • Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants

    C. Klak;G. Reeves;T. Hedderson

  • New national and regional bryophyte records, 41

    L. T. Ellis;M. Aleffi;R. Tacchi;A. Alegro

  • Phylogenetics, biogeography and classification of, and character evolution in, gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes): effects of character exclusion, data partitioning and missing data

    Timothy M. Crowe;Timothy M. Crowe;Rauri C. K. Bowie;Paulette Bloomer;Tshifhiwa G. Mandiwana

  • Evolution of the major moss lineages phylogenetic analyses based on multiple gene sequences and morphology

    Angela E. Newton;Cymon J. Cox;Jeffrey G. Duckett;John A. Wheeler

  • Phylogenetics of Dioscoreales based on combined analyses of morphological and molecular data

    Lizabeth R. Caddick;Lizabeth R. Caddick;Paula J. Rudall;Paul Wilkin;Terry A. J. Hedderson

  • The Bryophyta (Mosses): Systematic and Evolutionary Inferences from an rps4 Gene (cpDNA) Phylogeny

    Bernard Goffinet;Cymon J. Cox;A.Jonathan Shaw;Terry A.J. Hedderson

  • Phylogenetic Relationships Among the Diplolepideous-alternate Mosses (Bryidae) Inferred from Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA Sequences

    Cymon J. Cox;Bernard Goffinet;Angela E. Newton;A. Jonathan Shaw

  • PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF BRYOPHYTES INFERRED FROM NUCLEAR-ENCODED RRNA GENE SEQUENCES

    Terry A. Hedderson;Russell L. Chapman;W. L. Rootes

  • Molecular Phylogenetics of Subfamily Calamoideae (Palmae) Based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA rps16 Intron Sequence Data

    William J. Baker;Terry A. Hedderson;John Dransfield

  • Molecular insights into the phylogeny of the leafy liverwort family Lophoziaceae Cavers

    Ryan Thomas De Roo;Terry A. Hedderson;Lars Söderström

  • Phylogenetic relationships among the ciliate arthrodontous mosses: Evidence from chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences

    Cymon J. Cox;Terry A. J. Hedderson

  • A phylogenetic hypothesis for the Aizoaceae (Caryophyllales) based on four plastid DNA regions

    Cornelia Klak;Angeline Khunou;Gail Reeves;Terry Hedderson

  • A phylogenetic study of the palm family (Palmae) based on chloroplast DNA sequences from the trnL-trnF region

    William J. Baker;Conny B. Asmussen;Sasha C. Barrow;John Dransfield

  • New national and regional bryophyte records, 32

    L T Ellis;A Alegro;P Bansal;V Nath

  • Bryophyte diversity and range size distribution along two altitudinal gradients: Continent vs. island

    Claudine Ah-Peng;Claudine Ah-Peng;Nicholas Wilding;Juergen Kluge;Blandine Descamps-Julien

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Calamus (Palmae) and related rattan genera based on 5S nrDNA spacer sequence data.

    William J Baker;Terry A Hedderson;John Dransfield

  • Phylogeny, character evolution, and a new classification of the calamoid palms.

    William J. Baker;John Dransfield;Terry A. Hedderson

  • On phylogeny of the Polytrichales

    Jaakko Hyvönen;Terry A. Hedderson;Gary L. Smith Merrill;J. George Gibbings

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Strasberg
Dominique Strasberg University of La Réunion
Cymon J. Cox
Cymon J. Cox University of Algarve
Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
Ryszard Ochyra
Ryszard Ochyra Polish Academy of Sciences
John Dransfield
John Dransfield Royal Botanic Gardens
William J. Baker
William J. Baker Royal Botanic Gardens
Kenneth M. Cameron
Kenneth M. Cameron University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Wilkinson
Michael Wilkinson Aberystwyth University

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