Jeannine Cavender-Bares is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the
University of Minnesota
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in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior. Her research integrates evolutionary biology, ecology, and physiology by studying the functional traits of plants, with a particular focus on oaks.
Early life and education
Cavender-Bares grew up in
Athens, Ohio. She received her B.A. in
environmental sciences
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...
from
Cornell University
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in 1990, her Masters in Forestry and Global Change from
Yale University
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in 1992 and her PhD from
Harvard University
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in 2000. At Harvard, Jeannine worked with
Fakhri A. Bazzaz 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 E. Lovelock and at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research
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In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...
in Montpellier with Serge Rambal and Richard Joffre.
Career and research
She is a leading researcher in the field of 'eco-phylogenetics' or 'community phylogenetics' (her review has been cited over 2000 times), and organized a special issue of the journal ''
Ecology
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'' on that topic. 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
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, as well as how changes in plant function and diversity can be remotely sensed.
Cavender-Bares was one of the coordinating lead authors of the
(IPBES) report for the Americas. 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." In 2016, she helped launch the Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network, which promotes the protection of oak species across North America.
She was lead principal investigator of the
NSF
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NASA
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Dimensions of biodiversity project "Linking remotely sensed optical diversity to genetic, phylogenetic and functional diversity to predict ecosystem processes" and lead editor for the open access book ''Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity''. She serves on the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America and was appointed to serve on the public facing Biological Sciences Advisory Committee (BIO AC) to th
National Science Foundation(NSF) from 2019-2021. She is the Director of the NSF-funded biology integration institut
ASCENDon using spectral biology and predictive models for the study of biodiversity and global change.
Publications
As of 2022, Jeannine has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles or international assessments and 10 book chapters that have been cited over 27,000 times.
As indexed by Google scholar some of her most important papers as first author are:
* J Cavender-Bares, FD Schneider, JM Santos, ''et al.'' (2022).
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation. ''Nat Ecol Evol'' 6, 506–519.
* J Cavender-Bares (2019),
Diversification, adaptation, and community assembly of the American oaks (''Quercus''), a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution. New Phytol, 221, 669-692.
* J Cavender-Bares, S Polasky, E King, and P Balvanera (2015)
A sustainability framework for assessing trade-offs in ecosystem services ''Ecology and Society'' 20, no. 1.
* J Cavender-Bares, A González-Rodríguez, D Eaton, A Hipp, A Beulke, P Manos (2015).
Phylogeny and biogeography of the American live oaks (''Quercus'' subsection ''Virentes''): a genomic and population genetics approach. Mol Ecol, 24, 3668-3687.
* J Cavender-Bares, KH Kozak, PVA Fine, SW Kembel (2009)
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology ''Ecology Letters'' 12 (7), 693–715.
* J Cavender-Bares, A Keen, B Miles (2006)
Phylogenetic structure of Floridian plant communities depends on taxonomic and spatial scale ''Ecology'' 87 (sp7), S109-S122.
* J Cavender-Bares, DD Ackerly, DA Baum, FA Bazzaz (2004)
Phylogenetic overdispersion in Floridian oak communities ''The American Naturalist'' 163 (6), 823–843.
*J Cavender-Bares, K Kitajima, FA Bazzaz (2004)
Multiple trait associations in relation to habitat differentiation among 17 Floridian oak species ''Ecological Monographs'' 74 (4), 635–662.
* J Cavender-Bares, FA Bazzaz (2000)
Changes in drought response strategies with ontogeny in ''Quercus rubra'': implications for scaling from seedlings to mature trees. ''Oecologia'' 124 (1), 8-18.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Minnesota faculty
Harvard University alumni
21st-century American scientists
Women ecologists
21st-century American women scientists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American women academics