Kress, John
Former Curator
Systematic Biology: systematics of Heliconia and other Zingiberales, especially with regards to reproductive biology, allozyme and molecular variation, and cladistic relationships; generic concepts in the Zingiberales; phylogeny and evolution of the monocotyledons.`Evolutionary Biology: plant reproductive biology; the evolution of breeding and pollination systems; genetic diversity and speciation in tropical angiosperms.`Conservation Biology: forest fragmentation, gene flow, and genetic variation in tropical and temperate plant species.
Background And Education
Publications
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- Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities 2021
- Progress in the use of DNA barcodes in the identification and classification of medicinal plants 2021
- Author Correction: Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding 2020
- Characterization of Isolated Extracts from Justicia Plant Leaves used as Remedy for Anemia 2020
- Intercepting pandemics through genomics 2020
- Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding 2020
- REMEMBRANCE: Terry L. Erwin (1940-2020): Un cientifico muy Agra-dable 2020
- Research in Forest Biology in the Era of Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization 2020
- Plant DNA-barcode library and community phylogeny for a semi-arid East African savanna 2019
- Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest 2018
- Citizen Science and Climate Change: Mapping the Range Expansions of Native and Exotic Plants with the Mobile App Leafsnap 2018
- Decoupled dimensions of leaf economic and anti-herbivore defense strategies in a tropical canopy tree community 2018
- Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life 2018
- Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species 2018
- PhytoKeys at 100: progress in sustainability, innovation, and speed to enhance publication in plant systematics 2018
- Resolving the rapid plant radiation of early diverging lineages in the tropical Zingiberales: pushing the limits of genomic data 2018
- Advances of Community-Level Plant DNA Barcoding in China 2017
- Comparing Floristic Diversity and Conservation Priorities across South East Queensland Regional Rain Forest Ecosystems Using Phylodiversity Indexes 2017
- Experimental assemblage of novel plant-herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation 2017
- Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists 2017
- Morphological analysis of vessel elements for systematic study of three Zingiberaceae tribes 2017
- Museum careers – so much more than curating collections! 2017
- Plant DNA barcodes: Applications today and in the future 2017
- The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences 2017
- The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth 2017
- The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences-Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth 2017
- The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences: Too late or just in time? 2017
- DNA Barcodes Confirm the Taxonomic and Conservation Status of a Species of Tree on the Brink of Extinction in the Pacific 2016
- Evolutionary diversification of alpine ginger reflects the early uplift of the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau and rapid extrusion of Indochina 2016
- Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico 2016
- Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction 2016
- Patterns of Phylogenetic Diversity of Subtropical Rainforest of the Great Sandy Region, Australia Indicate Long Term Climatic Refugia 2016
- Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests 2016
- Phylogenetic Structure of Foliar Spectral Traits in Tropical Forest Canopies 2016
- Pollinator Competition as a Driver of Floral Divergence: An Experimental Test 2016
- Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients 2016
- A New Secondary Pollen Presentation Mechanism from a Wild Ginger (Zingiber densissimum) and Its Functional Roles in Pollination Process 2015
- A new species of bromeliad-feeding Cephaloleia Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) from Costa Rica: evidence from DNA barcodes, larval and adult morphology and insect diets 2015
- Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots 2015
- DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation 2015
- DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores 2015
- Mapping Biodiversity and Setting Conservation Priorities for SE Queensland's Rainforests Using DNA Barcoding 2015
- Phylogenetic and climatic constraints drive flowering phenological patterns in a subtropical nature reserve 2015
- Phylogenetic relatedness and leaf functional traits, not introduced status, influence community assembly 2015
- Pollinator recognition by a keystone tropical plant 2015
- Testing DNA barcodes in closely related species of Curcuma (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar and China 2015
- Will tropical mountaintop plant species survive climate change? Identifying key knowledge gaps using species distribution modelling in Australia 2015
- A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of puerto rico based on DNA barcode sequence data 2014
- Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach 2014
- Corrigendum to “The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession” 2014
- The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession 2014
- Valuing collections 2014
- Wood nitrogen concentrations in tropical trees: phylogenetic patterns and ecological correlates 2014
- A Geographic Mosaic of Plant–Pollinator Interactions in the Eastern Caribbean Islands 2013
- Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata 2013
- Pollinator-mediated selection in a specialized hummingbird-Heliconia system in the Eastern Caribbean 2013
- Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities 2013
- Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes 2013
- Using a comprehensive DNA barcode library to detect novel egg and larval host plant associations in a Cephaloleia rolled-leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) 2013
- Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas 2012
- DNA Barcoding as a Reliable Method for the Authentication of Commercial Seafood Products 2012
- Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for two Caribbean Heliconia (Heliconiaceae: H. bihai and H. caribaea) 2012
- Homoplasy, Pollination, and Emerging Complexity During the Evolution of Floral Development in the Tropical Gingers (Zingiberales) 2012
- Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution in the Strelitziaceae (Zingiberales) 2012
- Phylogenetic and Functional Alpha and Beta Diversity in Temperate and Tropical Tree Communities 2012
- Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity 2012
- Territorial Fidelity to Nectar Sources by Purple-throated Caribs, Eulampis Jugularis 2012
- The Contribution of Rare Species to Community Phylogenetic Diversity across a Global Network of Forest Plots 2012
- Two new species of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar 2012
- A brief history of fruits and frugivores 2011
- Biodiversity studies in Phaseolus species by DNA barcoding 2011
- Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea 2011
- Cybertaxonomy, semantic markup and semantic enhancements: The PhytoKeys and ZooKeys experience 2011
- Exploring Tree-Habitat Associations in a Chinese Subtropical Forest Plot Using a Molecular Phylogeny Generated from DNA Barcode Loci 2011
- Growth of an understory herb is chronically reduced in Amazonian forest fragments 2011
- Innovative electronic publication in plant systematics: PhytoKeys and the changes to the "Botanical Code" accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne 2011
- Plant–pollinator interactions and floral convergence in two species of Heliconia from the Caribbean Islands 2011
- Reproductive biology of two Himalayan alpine gingers (Roscoea spp., Zingiberaceae) in China: pollination syndrome and compensatory floral mechanisms 2011
- The Roots of Diversity: Below Ground Species Richness and Rooting Distributions in a Tropical Forest Revealed by DNA Barcodes and Inverse Modeling 2011
- What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest 2011
- Larsenianthus , a New Asian Genus of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) with Four Species 2010
- Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot 2010
- Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys 2010
- Mate choice and mate competition by a tropical hummingbird at a floral resource 2010
- Morphology, distribution, and chromosome counts of two varieties of Hedychium villosum (Zingiberaceae) 2010
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Local-Scale Tree Soil Associations in a Lowland Moist Tropical Forest 2010
- Phylogenetic analyses of the banana family (Musaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal (ITS) and chloroplast (trnL-F) evidence 2010
- Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples 2010
- Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly 2010
- A DNA barcode for land plants 2009
- A New Species of Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) from the Choco Region of Colombia 2009
- Achieving Target 2 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: building a preliminary assessment of vascular plant species using data from herbarium specimens 2009
- Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understorey Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata 2009
- Dissecting Tropical Plant Diversity with Forest Plots and a Molecular Toolkit 2009
- Effect of flower shape and size on foraging performance and trade-offs in a tropical hummingbird 2009
- Plant DNA Barcodes and a Community Phylogeny of a Tropical Forest Dynamics Plot in Panama 2009
- The Evolution of Bat Pollination: a Phylogenetic Perspective 2009
- DNA barcodes: Genes, genomics, and bioinformatics 2008
- DNA barcoding - a windfall for tropical biology? 2008
- DNA barcoding in land plants: developing standards to quantify and maximize success 2008
- Nectar characteristics of two Eastern Caribbean Heliconias (Heliconia: Heliconiaceae 2008
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