Dr. Malin Ah-King
Biological and related sciences Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Biological and related sciences , Environment
Palaeobotany; Vascular cryptogam and bryophyte systematics, phylogeny, morphology, evolution
Anatomy and morphology of early land plants. Evolution of early terrestrial ecosystems in the Silurian and Devonian. Interactions between animals and plants. Geochemistry of early land plants. Impacts of early plants on lithosphere and atmosphere
English
BA Girton College Cambridge
PhD Cambridge University
NERC and Girton College Research fellow
Research fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer Reader, Professor at Cardiff University
Head of School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Distinguished Research Professor (current)
Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 2015. The early evolution of land plants, from fossils to genomics: a commentary on Lang (1937) 'On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B – Biological Sciences 370(1666), article number: 20140343. (10.1098/rstb.2014.0343)
Edwards, D. 2015. A palaeobotanical pot-pourri. Palaeontology 58(1), pp. 1-3. (10.1111/pala.12143)
Edwards, D., Cherns, L. and Raven, A. J. 2015. Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid- Palaeozoic times?. Palaeontology
Morris, J. L. and Edwards, D. 2014. An analysis of vegetational change in the Lower Devonian: New data from the Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211, pp. 28-54. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.09.006)
Edwards, D. et al. 2014. Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras. New Phytologist 202(1), pp. 50-78. (10.1111/nph.12645)
Life on land before vascular plants.
Nature and affinities of earliest vascular plants
Immediate past president Linnean Society of London
past president -Life member Palaeontological Association
Corresponding member American Journal of Botany
Leverhume Trust scientific advisor
ScD Cantab; honorary degrees at Uppsala and Dublin Universities.
Hon Fellow Swansea University.
Fellow Royal Society of London, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Learned Society Of Wales.
Medals Geological and Linnean Societies, Palaeontological Association.
Commander of the British Empire CBE
Botanic Gardens, Opera, Mozart, Gardening
One son. One grandson
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