Erika J Edwards

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Pereskia and the origin of the cactus life-form
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, P O Box 208105, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
    Am Nat 167:777-93. 2006
  2. ncbi Correlated evolution of stem and leaf hydraulic traits in Pereskia (Cactaceae)
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8105, USA
    New Phytol 172:479-789. 2006
  3. ncbi The relevance of phylogeny to studies of global change
    Erika J Edwards
    Geography Department and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 22:243-9. 2007
  4. ncbi Ecological physiology of Pereskia guamacho, a cactus with leaves
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
    Plant Cell Environ 29:247-56. 2006
  5. ncbi Evolution of leaf form correlates with tropical-temperate transitions in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)
    Samuel B Schmerler
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:3905-13. 2012
  6. ncbi Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Geography and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
    Ecol Lett 11:266-76. 2008

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Pereskia and the origin of the cactus life-form
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, P O Box 208105, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
    Am Nat 167:777-93. 2006
    ..We interpret these ecological traits as potentially important drivers of evolutionary innovation in the cacti...
  2. ncbi Correlated evolution of stem and leaf hydraulic traits in Pereskia (Cactaceae)
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8105, USA
    New Phytol 172:479-789. 2006
    ..These results highlight the need for a lineage-based approach to understand the relative roles of functional traits in ecological adaptation...
  3. ncbi The relevance of phylogeny to studies of global change
    Erika J Edwards
    Geography Department and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 22:243-9. 2007
    ..We outline how phylogenetics can guide better taxon sampling of key physiological traits, and discuss how the emerging field of phyloinformatics presents a promising new framework for scaling from organism physiology to global processes...
  4. ncbi Ecological physiology of Pereskia guamacho, a cactus with leaves
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
    Plant Cell Environ 29:247-56. 2006
    ..We conclude that leaf performance is not limited by stem hydraulic capacity in this species, and that water use is conservative and tightly regulated at the leaf level...
  5. ncbi Evolution of leaf form correlates with tropical-temperate transitions in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)
    Samuel B Schmerler
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:3905-13. 2012
    ..Our results provide a new theoretical grounding for the inference of past climates using fossil leaf assemblages...
  6. ncbi Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses
    Erika J Edwards
    Department of Geography and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
    Ecol Lett 11:266-76. 2008
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