Professor Dianne Edwards
MA, PhD, ScD(Cantab) CBE FRS FRSE FLS FLSW
Research Professor
- edwardsd2@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4264
- 1.11, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Overview
Interests
- Mid-Palaeozoic Palaeobotany
- Palaeoecosystems
- Early embryophytes
- Plant phylogeny
- Phytoterrestrialisation
Biography
Academia
- BA (Cantab)
- Sc.D (Cantab)
- Hon ScD (Dublin)
Affiliations
Professor Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America.
Publications
We are currently unable to retrieve the list of publications. Visit our institutional repository.For the last 45 years, I have described Silurian- Devonian fossils that record the early history of plant life on land, particularly concentrating on their anatomy based on a wide variety of types of preservation. This aids in their identification and hence relationships, plus detection of adaptations, including biochemical ones, to the terrestrial environment and hence their palaeoecophysiology. Of further major interest is the effects of early land vegetation on the lithosphere and atmosphere and this has led to colloboration with palaeozoologists and palynologists on ecosystem development as well as chemists and neobotanists.