Jeannine Cavender-Bares | |
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Born | United States |
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Institutions | University of Minnesota |
Jeannine Cavender-Bares is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Ecology,Evolution &Behavior. [1] Her research integrates evolutionary biology,ecology,and physiology by studying the functional traits of plants,with a particular focus on oaks. [2]
Cavender-Bares grew up in Athens,Ohio. [3] She received her B.A. in environmental sciences from Cornell University in 1990,her Masters in Forestry and Global Change from Yale University in 1992 [4] and her PhD from Harvard University in 2000. [5] At Harvard,Jeannine worked with Fakhri A. Bazzaz [6] and studied the physiological and evolutionary ecology of oaks (Quercus). She then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Catherine Lovelock [7] and at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Montpellier with Serge Rambal and Richard Joffre. [8]
She is a leading researcher in the field of 'eco-phylogenetics' or 'community phylogenetics' (her review [9] has been cited over 2000 times),and organized a special issue of the journal Ecology on that topic. [10] Her work has emphasized the role of diversification in community assembly. [11] [12] Cavender-Bares' research group uses concepts from the evolutionary history of plant physiology to understand how ecosystems function in the face of global climate change,as well as how changes in plant function and diversity can be remotely sensed.
Cavender-Bares is the Director of the NSF-funded biology integration institute [13] ASCEND [14] on using spectral biology and predictive models for the study of biodiversity and global change. She was lead principal investigator of the NSF/NASA Dimensions of biodiversity project "Linking remotely sensed optical diversity to genetic,phylogenetic and functional diversity to predict ecosystem processes" [15] and lead editor for the open access book Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity . [16]
She has contributed to national and international efforts to assess and monitor biodiversity. She was one of the coordinating lead authors of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report for the Americas. [17] The IPBES is an independent intergovernmental body supported by multiple nations with the mission to "strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity,long-term human well-being and sustainable development." [18] She served on the NASA Working Group that authored the 2022 NASA Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting Report:Current State of Knowledge and Considerations for the Next Decade. [19] In 2016,she helped launch the Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network,which promotes the protection of oak species across North America. [20] [21]
She serves on the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America and the Steering Committee of the World Biodiversity Forum. [22] She was appointed to serve on the public facing Biological Sciences Advisory Committee (BIO AC) to the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2019-2021.
As of 2023,Cavender-Bares has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles,international assessments or book chapters that have been cited over 34,000 times. [23]
As indexed by Google scholar some of her most important papers as first author are:
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