Dianne Edwards

Dianne Edwards ( b. 1942 ) is a British Paläobotanikerin. Your botanical author abbreviation is " D.Edwards ".

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1996 ), the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Learned Society of Wales and a Trustee of the Natural History Museum in London and was a Trustee of the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. It is CBE.

She is a professor at the University of Cardiff. Since 2012 she is also President of the Linnean Society.

It dealt with early land plants from the Silurian and early Devonian, especially from the Rhynie Chert in Scotland and in charred fossil remains in Wales as well as from China ( she works with the Beijing Museum of Natural History ). It examines early plant fossils with the electron microscope.

In 1992, she discovered vessels in the early land plant Sonia Cook from the Silurian and Early Devonian. She interpreted charcoal remains from the Silurian as the earliest evidence of forest fires. 1994, she found evidence that the earliest land plants in the Silurian Ordovician and liverworts were. She discovered and systematically studied the stomata in early land plants examined fossil remains uncertain classification as Nematothallus, Prototaxites and Nematasketum and erstbeschrieb the mossy Tortilicaulis from the Silurian and Devonian.

In 2004 she received the Lyell Medal. In 2013 she received the Lapworth Medal of Palaeontological Association and an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala.