Jeannine Cavender-Bares

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Jeannine Cavender-Bares
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United States
Alma mater
  • BA (Cornell University)
  • MES (Yale University)
  • PhD (Harvard University)
Occupation Professor
Academic career
InstitutionsHarvard University, University of Minnesota

Jeannine Cavender-Bares is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Herbaria. She is also adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at the University of Minnesota, where she served on the faculty for over two decades. [1] Her research integrates evolutionary biology, ecology, and physiology by studying the functional traits of plants, with a particular focus on oaks. [2]

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Early life and education

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]

Career and research

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. She led the design and establishment of several long-term experiments at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, including the Forest and Biodiversity (FAB) experiments. [13] [14]

Cavender-Bares is the Director of the NSF-funded biology integration institute [15] ASCEND [16] 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" [17] and lead editor for the open access book Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity . [18]

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. [19] 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." [20] 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. [21] In 2016, she helped launch the Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network, which promotes the protection of oak species across North America. [22] [23]

She serves on the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America and the Steering Committee of the World Biodiversity Forum. [24] She was appointed to serve on the public facing Biological Sciences Advisory Committee (BIO AC) to the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2019-2021.

Publications

As of 2024, Cavender-Bares has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, international assessments or book chapters that have been cited over 37,000 times. [25]

As indexed by Google scholar some of her most important papers as first author are:

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References

  1. ↑ "Jeannine Cavender-Bares | PhD | University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN | UMN | Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  2. ↑ Cavender-Bares, J. (2019). Diversification, adaptation, and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution. New Phytologist, 221(2), 669-692.
  3. ↑ "Jeannine Cavender-Bares". New Phytologist. 12 (4): 1861–1863. 2021. doi: 10.1111/nph.16852 . PMID   33462850.
  4. ↑ "College of Biological Sciences |". cbs.umn.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  5. ↑ Cavender-Bares Lab website at the University of Minnesota . Accessed: 2019-09-10
  6. ↑ "Terrestrial Ecology Tree - Harvard University - Affiliated Researchers". academictree.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  7. ↑ "Past Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program Awardees | Smithsonian Fellowships and Internships". www.smithsonianofi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  8. ↑ Chateaubriand Fellowship Program | List of Fellows | Science, Technology, Engineering, Math & Health | 2002
  9. ↑ Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Kozak, Kenneth H.; Fine, Paul V. A.; Kembel, Steven W. (2009). "The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology". Ecology Letters. 12 (7): 693–715. Bibcode:2009EcolL..12..693C. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01314.x . PMID   19473217.
  10. ↑ Cavender-Bares, J., Ackerly, D. D., & Kozak, K. H. (2012). Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities. Ecology, S1-S3.
  11. ↑ Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Kothari, Shan; Meireles, José Eduardo; Kaproth, Matthew A.; Manos, Paul S; Hipp, Andrew L. (March 2018). "The role of diversification in community assembly of the oaks ( Quercus L.) across the continental U.S." American Journal of Botany. 105 (3): 565–586. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1049. ISSN   0002-9122. PMID   29689630.
  12. ↑ Cavender-Bares, Jeannine (January 2019). "Diversification, adaptation, and community assembly of the American oaks ( Quercus ), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution". New Phytologist. 221 (2): 669–692. doi:10.1111/nph.15450. ISSN   0028-646X. PMID   30368821.
  13. ↑ Grossman, Jake J.; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Reich, Peter B.; Montgomery, Rebecca A. (October 2017). "Species richness and traits predict overyielding in stem growth in an early-successional tree diversity experiment". Ecology. 98 (10): 2601–2614. Bibcode:2017Ecol...98.2601G. doi:10.1002/ecy.1958. ISSN   0012-9658. PMID   28727905.
  14. ↑ Kothari, Shan; Montgomery, Rebecca A.; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine (May 2021). Wright, Alexandra (ed.). "Physiological responses to light explain competition and facilitation in a tree diversity experiment". Journal of Ecology. 109 (5): 2000–2018. Bibcode:2021JEcol.109.2000K. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13637. ISSN   0022-0477.
  15. ↑ "Cross-disciplinary research teams seek to answer grand challenges in biology". September 2020.
  16. ↑ "Advancing Spectral biology in Changing ENvironments to understand Diversity".
  17. ↑ National Science Foundation entry . Accessed: 2019-09-11
  18. ↑ Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity. J. Cavender-Bares, J. Gamon, P. Townsend (eds.). Springer. 2020. ISBN   978-3-030-33157-3.
  19. ↑ IPBES (2018): The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for the Americas. Rice, J., Seixas, C. S., Zaccagnini, M. E., Bedoya-Gaitán, M., and Valderrama N. (eds.). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany. 656 pages.
  20. ↑ "About | IPBES". ipbes.net. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  21. ↑ https://cce.nasa.gov/biodiversity/pdf/NASABiodiversityReport2022.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  22. ↑ "Outreach | College of Biological Sciences". cbs.umn.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  23. ↑ "Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network | The Morton Arboretum". www.mortonarb.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  24. ↑ "Organisation".
  25. ↑ "Jeannine Cavender-Bares - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
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