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
Education And Training
Publications
Selected Publications
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- Bruna, Emilio M., Uriarte, María, Darrigo, Maria Rosa, Rubim, Paulo, Jurinitz, Cristiane F., Scott, Eric R., Ferreira Da Silva, Osmaildo, and Kress, W. J. 2023. "Demography of the understory herb Heliconia acuminata (Heliconiaceae) in an experimentally fragmented tropical landscape." Ecology, 104, (12). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4174. 2023
- Sherkow, Jacob S., Barker, Katharine B., Braverman, Irus, Cook-Deegan, Robert, Durbin, Richard, Easter, Carla L., Goldstein, Melissa M., Hudson, Maui, Kress, W. John, Lewin, Harris A., Mathews, Debra J. H., McCarthy, Catherine, McCartney, Ann M., da Silva, Manuela, Torrance, Andrew W., and Greely, Henry T. 2022. "Ethical, legal, and social issues in the Earth BioGenome Project." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115859119. 2022
- Hernández, Georgia G., Perez, Timothy M., Vargas, Oscar M., Kress, W. John, Molina-Bravo, Ramón, Cordero, Roberto A., Seemann, Jeffrey R., and García-Robledo, Carlos. 2022. "Evolutionary history constrains heat tolerance of native and exotic tropical Zingiberales." Functional Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14191. 2022
- Ashokan, Ajith, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Suksathan, Piyakaset, Newman, Mark, Kress, W. John, and Gowda, Vinita. 2022. "Floral evolution and pollinator diversification in Hedychium: Revisiting Darwin's predictions using an integrative taxonomic approach." American Journal of Botany, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16039. 2022
- Kress, W. John, Soltis, Douglas E., Kersey, Paul J., Wegrzyn, Jill L., Leebens-Mack, James, Gostel, Morgan R., Liu, Xin, and Soltis, Pamela S. 2022. "Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115640118. 2022
- Ashokan, Ajith, Xavier, Aleena, Suksathan, Piyakaset, Ardiyani, Marlina, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Newman, Mark, Kress, W. J., and Gowda, Vinita. 2022. "Himalayan orogeny and monsoon intensification explain species diversification in an endemic ginger (Hedychium: Zingiberaceae) from the Indo-Malayan Realm." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107440. 2022
- Zhao, Jian-Li, Yu, Xiang-Qin, Kress, W. John, Wang, Ya-Li, Xia, Yong-Mei, and Li, Qing-Jun. 2022. "Historical biogeography of the gingers and its implications for shifts in tropical rain forest habitats." Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14386. 2022
- Kress, W. John and Krupnick, Gary A. 2022. "Lords of the biosphere: Plant winners and losers in the Anthropocene." Plants People Planet, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10252. 2022
- Palmer, Christine M., Wershoven, Nicole L., Martinson, Sharon J., ter Hofstede, Hannah M., Kress, W. John, and Symes, Laurel B. 2022. "Patterns of Herbivory in Neotropical Forest Katydids as Revealed by DNA Barcoding of Digestive Tract Contents." Diversity-Basel, 14, (2). https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020152. 2022
- Kress, W. John and Gostel, Morgan R. 2022. "Plant DNA Barcodes, Community Ecology, and Species Interactions." Diversity-Basel, 14, (6). https://doi.org/10.3390/d14060453. 2022
- Lewin, Harris A., Richards, Stephen, Lieberman Aiden, Erez, Allende, Miguel L., Archibald, John M., Bálint, Miklós, Barker, Katharine B., Baumgartner, Bridget, Belov, Katherine, Bertorelle, Giorgio, Blaxter, Mark L., Cai, Jing, Caperello, Nicolette D., Carlson, Keith, Castilla-Rubio, Juan, Chaw, Shu-Miaw, Chen, Lei, Childers, Anna K., Coddington, Jonathan A., Conde, Dalia A., Corominas, Montserrat, Crandall, Keith A., Crawford, Andrew J., DiPalma, Federica, Durbin, Richard et al. 2022. "The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115635118. 2022
- Gostel, Morgan R. and Kress, W. John. 2022. "The Expanding Role of DNA Barcodes: Indispensable Tools for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation." Diversity, 14, (3). https://doi.org/10.3390/d14030213. 2022
- Kress, W. John. 2022. "Thomas E. Lovejoy III (1941-2021)-An individual for all times and places, especially in the tropics." Biotropica, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13102. 2022
- Blaxter, Mark, Archibald, John M., Childers, Anna K., Coddington, Jonathan A., Crandall, Keith A., Di Palma, Federica, Durbin, Richard, Edwards, Scott V., Graves, Jennifer A. M., Hackett, Kevin J., Hall, Neil, Jarvis, Erich D., Johnson, Rebecca N., Karlsson, Elinor K., Kress, W. John, Kuraku, Shigehiro, Lawniczak, Mara K. N., Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Lopez, Jose V., Moran, Nancy A., Robinson, Gene E., Ryder, Oliver A., Shapiro, Beth, Soltis, Pamela S., Warnow, Tandy et al. 2022. "Why sequence all eukaryotes?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115636118. 2022
- Wiegand, Thorsten, Wang, Xugao, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Bourg, Norman A., Cao, Min, Ci, Xiuqin, Davies, Stuart J., Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W., Kress, W. John, Lian, Juyu, Li, Jie, Lin, Luxiang, Lin, Yiching, Ma, Keping, McShea, William, Mi, Xiangcheng, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Sun, I-Fang, Wolf, Amy, Ye, Wanhui, and Huth, Andreas. 2021. "Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities." Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01440-0. 2021
- Yu, Jie, Wu, Xi, Liu, Chang, Newmaster, Steve, Ragupathy, Subramanyam, and Kress, W. John. 2021. "Progress in the use of DNA barcodes in the identification and classification of medicinal plants." Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 208 111691–111691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111691. 2021
- Gostel, Morgan R., Zúñiga, Jose D., Kress, W. John, Funk, Vicki Ann, and Puente-Lelievre, Caroline. 2020. "Author Correction: Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding." Scientific Reports, 10, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69598-4. 2020
- Wood, Jana, Yasmin-Karim, Sayeda, Moreau, Michele, Kumar, Rajiv, Akwanwi, Janet, Derek, Atoh, Atoneche, Fred, Kress, W. John, and Ngwa, A. Wilfred. 2020. "Characterization of Isolated Extracts from Justicia Plant Leaves used as Remedy for Anemia." Molecules, 25, (3) Article E534. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25030534. 2020
- Kress, W. John, Mazet, Jonna A. K., and Hebert, Paul D. N. 2020. "Intercepting pandemics through genomics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, (25) 13852–13855. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009508117. 2020
- Gostel, Morgan R., Zúñiga, Jose D., Kress, W. John, Funk, Vicki Ann, and Puente-Lelievre, Caroline. 2020. "Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding." Scientific Reports, 10 Article 8701. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64919-z. 2020
- Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Kuprewicz, Erin K., and Kress, W. John. 2020. "REMEMBRANCE: Terry L. Erwin (1940-2020): Un cientifico muy Agra-dable." Biotropica, 52, (4) 785–786. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12828. 2020
- Pei, Nancai and Kress, W. John. 2020. "Research in Forest Biology in the Era of Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization." Forests, 11, (1) Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11010026. 2020
- Gill, Brian A., Musili, Paul M., Kurukura, Samson, Hassan, Abidikadir A., Goheen, Jacob R., Kress, W. John, Kuzmina, Maria, Pringle, Robert M., and Kartzinel, Tyler R. 2019. "Plant DNA-barcode library and community phylogeny for a semi-arid East African savanna." Molecular Ecology Resources, 19, (4) 838–846. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13001. 2019
- Comita, Liza S., Uriarte, María, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Kress, W. John, Swenson, Nathan G., Thompson, Jill, Umaña, María Natalia, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2018. "Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest." Forests, 9, (9) 556. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090556. 2018
- Kress, W. John, Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Soares, Joao V. B., Jacobs, David, Wilson, Katharine, Lopez, Ida C., and Belhumeur, Peter N. 2018. "Citizen Science and Climate Change: Mapping the Range Expansions of Native and Exotic Plants with the Mobile App Leafsnap." Bioscience, 68, (5) 348–358. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy019. 2018
- Chauvin, K. M., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Kress, W. John, Wright, S. Joseph, and Field, C. B. 2018. "Decoupled dimensions of leaf economic and anti-herbivore defense strategies in a tropical canopy tree community." Oecologia, 186, (3) 765–782. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4043-9. 2018
- Lewin, Harris A., Robinson, Gene E., Kress, W. John, Baker, William J., Coddington, Jonathan, Crandall, Keith A., Durbin, Richard, Edwards, Scott V., Forest, Felix, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Goldstein, Melissa M., Grigoriev, Igor V., Hackett, Kevin J., Haussler, David, Jarvis, Erich D., Johnson, Warren E., Patrinos, Aristides, Richards, Stephen, Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos, van Sluys, Marie-Anne, Soltis, Pamela S., Xu, Xun, Yang, Huanming, and Zhang, Guojie. 2018. "Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, (17) 4325–4333. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720115115. 2018
- Chen, Lei, Comita, Liza S., Wright, S. Joseph, Swenson, Nathan G., Zimmerman, Jess K., Mi, Xiangcheng, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Hubbell, Stephen P., Kress, W. John, Uriarte, Maria, Thompson, Jill, Nytch, Christopher J., Wang, Xugao, Lian, Juyu, and Ma, Keping. 2018. "Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species." Ecography, 41, (7) 1114–1123. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03389. 2018
- Kress, W. John, Knapp, Sandra, Stoev, Pavel, and Penev, Lyubomir. 2018. "PhytoKeys at 100: progress in sustainability, innovation, and speed to enhance publication in plant systematics." Phytokeys, (100) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.100.27591. 2018
- Carlsen, Mónica M., Fér, Tomáš, Schmickl, Roswitha, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Newman, Mark, and Kress, W. John. 2018. "Resolving the rapid plant radiation of early diverging lineages in the tropical Zingiberales: pushing the limits of genomic data." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 128 55–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.07.020. 2018
- Pei, Nancai, Chen, Bufeng, and Kress, W. John. 2017. "Advances of Community-Level Plant DNA Barcoding in China." Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, (225). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00225. 2017
- Shapcott, Alison, Liu, Yining, Howard, Marion, Forster, Paul I., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Faith, Daniel P., Shimizu, Yoko, and McDonald, William J. F. 2017. "Comparing Floristic Diversity and Conservation Priorities across South East Queensland Regional Rain Forest Ecosystems Using Phylodiversity Indexes." International Journal of Plant Sciences, 178, (3) 211–229. https://doi.org/10.1086/690022. 2017
- Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Horvitz, Carol C., Kress, W. John, Carvajal-Acosta, A., Erwin, Terry L., and Staines, Charles L. 2017. "Experimental assemblage of novel plant-herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation." Biotropica, 49, (6) 803–810. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12464. 2017
- Baker, Timothy R., Pennington, R. Toby, Dexter, Kyle G., Fine, Paul V. A., Fortune-Hopkins, Helen, Honorio, Euridice N., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Klitgård, Bente B., Lewis, Gwilym P., de Lima, Haroldo C., Ashton, Peter, Baraloto, Christopher, Davies, Stuart, Donoghue, Michael J., Kaye, Maria, Kress, W. John, Lehmann, Caroline E. R., Monteagudo, Abel, Phillips, Oliver L., and Vasquez, Rodolfo. 2017. "Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists." Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32, (4) 258–267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007. 2017
- Gevú, Kathlyn Vasconcelos, Lima, Helena Regina Pinto, Kress, W. John, and Da Cunha, Maura. 2017. "Morphological analysis of vessel elements for systematic study of three Zingiberaceae tribes." Journal of Plant Research, 130, (3) 527–538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-017-0911-y. 2017
- Lowman, Margaret D. and Kress, W. John. 2017. "Museum careers – so much more than curating collections!." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15, (7) 404–405. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1524. 2017
- Kress, W. John. 2017. "Plant DNA barcodes: Applications today and in the future." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 55, (4) 291–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12254. 2017
- Crane, Peter R., Ge, Song, Hong, De-Yuan, Huang, Hong-Wen, Jiao, Gen-Lin, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Mooney, Harold, Raven, Peter H., Wen, Jun, Wu, Wei-Hua, Yang, Huan-Ming, Zhu, Wei-Hua, and Zhu, Yu-Xian. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences." Taxon, 66, (5) 1261–1262. https://doi.org/10.12705/665.34. 2017
- Crane, Peter R., Ge, Song, Hong, De-Yuan, Huang, Hong-Wen, Jiao, Gen-Lin, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Mooney, Harold, Raven, Peter H., Wen, Jun, Wu, Wei-Hua, Yang, Huan-Ming, Zhu, Wei-Hua, and Zhu, Yu-Xian. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth." Phytokeys, (86) 3–7. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.86.20859. 2017
- Crane, Peter R., Ge, Song, Hong, De-Yuan, Huang, Hong-Wen, Jiao, Gen-Lin, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Mooney, Harold, Raven, Peter H., Wen, Jun, Wu, Wei-Hua, Yang, Huan-Ming, Zhu, Wei-Hua, and Zhu, Yu-Xian. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences-Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 55, (5) 415–416. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12283. 2017
- Kress, W. John and Knapp, Sandra. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences: Too late or just in time?" Phytokeys, (86) 1–2. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.86.20712. 2017
- Costion, Craig M., Kress, W. John, and Crayn, Darren M. 2016. "DNA Barcodes Confirm the Taxonomic and Conservation Status of a Species of Tree on the Brink of Extinction in the Pacific." PloS One, 11, (6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155118. 2016
- Zhao, Jian-Li, Xia, Yong-Mei, Cannon, Charles H., Kress, W. John, and Li, Qing-Jun. 2016. "Evolutionary diversification of alpine ginger reflects the early uplift of the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau and rapid extrusion of Indochina." Gondwana Research, 32 232–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.02.004. 2016
- Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, Maria, Aide, T. Mitchell, Erickson, David L., Forero-Montana, Jimena, Kress, W. John, Swenson, Nathan G., and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2016. "Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico." Journal of Vegetation Science, 27, (2) 283–294. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12354. 2016
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Kuprewicz, Erin K., Staines, Charles L., Erwin, Terry L., and Kress, W. John. 2016. "Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (3) 680–685. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507681113. 2016
- Howard, Marion G., McDonald, William J. F., Forster, Paul I., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David, Faith, Daniel P., and Shapcott, Alison. 2016. "Patterns of Phylogenetic Diversity of Subtropical Rainforest of the Great Sandy Region, Australia Indicate Long Term Climatic Refugia." PloS One, 11, (4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153565. 2016
- Wills, Christopher, Harms, Kyle E., Wiegand, Thorsten, Punchi-Manage, Ruwan, Gilbert, Gregory S., Erickson, David, Kress, W. John, Hubbell, Stephen P., Gunatilleke, C. V. S., and Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. 2016. "Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests." PLOS ONE, 11, (6) 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156913. 2016
- McManus, Kelly M., Asner, Gregory P., Martin, Roberta E., Dexter, Kyle G., Kress, W. John, and Field, Christopher B. 2016. "Phylogenetic Structure of Foliar Spectral Traits in Tropical Forest Canopies." Remote Sensing, 8, (3) 196. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8030196. 2016
- Temeles, Ethan J., Newman, Julia T., Newman, Jennifer H., Cho, Se Yeon, Mazzotta, Alexandra R., and Kress, W. John. 2016. "Pollinator Competition as a Driver of Floral Divergence: An Experimental Test." PloS One, 11, (1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146431. 2016
- Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, María, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Kress, W. John, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2016. "Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients." Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 23 52–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2016.09.007. 2016
- Fan, Yong-Li, Kress, W. John, and Li, Qing-Jun. 2015. "A New Secondary Pollen Presentation Mechanism from a Wild Ginger (Zingiber densissimum) and Its Functional Roles in Pollination Process." PloS One, 10, (12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143812. 2015
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Staines, Charles L., and Kress, W. John. 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." ZooKeys, (477) 143–155. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.477.8220. 2015
- Pei, Nancai, Erickson, David L., Chen, Bufeng, Ge, Xuejun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Zhang, Jin-Long, Jones, Frank A., Huang, Chun-Lin, Ye, Wanhui, Hao, Zhanqing, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Lum, Shawn, Bourg, Norman A., Parker, John D., Zimmerman, Jess K., McShea, William J., Lopez, Ida C., Sun, I. F., Davies, Stuart J., Ma, Keping, and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots." Scientific Reports, 5, (15127). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15127. 2015
- Kress, W. John, García-Robledo, Carlos, Uriarte, Maria, and Erickson, David L. 2015. "DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation." Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 30, (1) 25–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.10.008. 2015
- Kartzinel, Tyler R., Chen, Patricia A., Coverdale, Tyler C., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, Kuzmina, Maria L., Rubenstein, Daniel I., Wang, Wei, and Pringle, Robert M. 2015. "DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, (26) 8019–8024. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503283112. 2015
- Shapcott, Alison, Forster, Paul I., Guymer, Gordon P., McDonald, William J. F., Faith, Daniel P., Erickson, David L., and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Mapping Biodiversity and Setting Conservation Priorities for SE Queensland's Rainforests Using DNA Barcoding." PloS One, 10, (3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122164. 2015
- Pei, Nan-Cai, Kress, W. John, Chen, Bu-Feng, Erickson, David L., Wong, Khoon Meng, Zhang, Jin-Long, Ye, Wan-Hui, Huang, Zhong-Liang, and Zhang, Dian-Xiang. 2015. "Phylogenetic and climatic constraints drive flowering phenological patterns in a subtropical nature reserve." Journal of Plant Ecology, 8, (2) 187–196. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtv009. 2015
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Shue, Jessica, Verrico, Brittany, Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Parker, John D. 2015. "Phylogenetic relatedness and leaf functional traits, not introduced status, influence community assembly." Ecology, 96, (10) 2605–2612. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1883.1. 2015
- Betts, Matthew G., Hadley, Adam S., and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Pollinator recognition by a keystone tropical plant." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, (11) 3433–3438. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419522112. 2015
- Chen, Juan, Zhao, Jietang, Erickson, David L., Xia, Nianhe, and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Testing DNA barcodes in closely related species of Curcuma (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar and China." Molecular Ecology Resources, 15, (2) 337–348. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12319. 2015
- Costion, Craig M., Simpson, Lalita, Pert, Petina L., Carlsen, Monica M., Kress, W. John, and Crayn, Darren. 2015. "Will tropical mountaintop plant species survive climate change? Identifying key knowledge gaps using species distribution modelling in Australia." Biological Conservation, 191 322–330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.022. 2015
- Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, María, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Zimmerman, Jess K., and Kress, W. John. 2014. "A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of puerto rico based on DNA barcode sequence data." PloS One, 9, (11) 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112843. 2014
- Erickson, David L., Jones, Frank A., Swenson, Nathan G., Pei, Nancai, Bourg, Norman, Chen, Wenna, Davies, Stuart James, Ge, Xue-jun, Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W., Huang, Chun Lin, Larson, Andrew J., Lum, Shawn K., Lutz, James, Ma, Keping, Meegaskumbura, Madhava, Mi, Xiangcheng, Parker, John D., Sun, I. Fang, Wright, S. Joseph, Wolf, Amy T., Xing, Dinglian, Zimmerman, Jess K., and Kress, W. John. 2014. "Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach." Frontiers in Genetics, 5 358. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2014.00358. 2014
- Lasky, Jesse R., Uriarte, María, Boukili, Vanessa K., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Chazdon, Robin L. 2014. "Corrigendum to “The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession”." Ecology Letters, 17, (11) 1478–1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12370. 2014
- Lasky, Jesse R., Uriarte, María, Boukili, Vanessa K., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Chazdon, Robin L. 2014. "The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession." Ecology Letters, 17, (9) 1158–1167. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12322. 2014
- Kress, W. John. 2014. "Valuing collections." Science, 346, (6215) 1310. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa4115. 2014
- Martin, Adam R., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Thomas, Sean C. 2014. "Wood nitrogen concentrations in tropical trees: phylogenetic patterns and ecological correlates." New Phytologist, 204, (3) 484–495. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12943. 2014
- Gowda, Vinita and Kress, W. John. 2013. "A Geographic Mosaic of Plant–Pollinator Interactions in the Eastern Caribbean Islands." Biotropica, 45, (2) 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00915.x. 2013
- Côrtes, Marina C., Uriarte, María, Lemes, Maristerra R., Gribel, Rogério, Kress, W. John, Smouse, Peter E., and Bruna, Emilio M. 2013. "Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata." Molecular ecology, 22, (22) 5716–5729. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12495. 2013
- Temeles, Ethan J., Rah, Y. J., Andicoechea, J., Byanova, K. L., Giller, G. S. J., Stolk, S. B., and Kress, W. John. 2013. "Pollinator-mediated selection in a specialized hummingbird-Heliconia system in the Eastern Caribbean." Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, (2) 347–356. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12053. 2013
- Swenson, Nathan G., Mi, Xiangcheng, Kress, W. John, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2013. "Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities." Ecology and Evolution, 3, (5) 1173–1183. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.526. 2013
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Erickson, David L., Staines, Charles L., Erwin, Terry L., and Kress, W. John. 2013. "Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes." PLoS ONE, 8, (1) e52967. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052967. 2013
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Kuprewicz, Erin K., Staines, Charles L., Kress, W. John, and Erwin, Terry L. 2013. "Using a comprehensive DNA barcode library to detect novel egg and larval host plant associations in a Cephaloleia rolled-leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 110, (1) 189–198. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12115. 2013
- Laurance, William F., Carolina Useche, D., Rendeiro, Julio, Kalka, Margareta, Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Sloan, Sean P., Laurance, Susan G., Campbell, Mason, Abernethy, Kate, Alvarez, Patricia, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Victor, Ashton, Peter, Benítez-Malvido, Julieta, Blom, Allard, Bobo, Kadiri S., Cannon, Charles H., Cao, Min, Carroll, Richard, Chapman, Colin, Coates, Rosamond, Cords, Marina, Danielsen, Finn, De Dijn, Bart, Dinerstein, Eric, Donnelly, Maureen A. et al. 2012. "Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas." Nature, 489 290–294. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11318. 2012
- Nicole, Silvia, Negrisolo, Enrico, Eccher, Giulia, Mantovani, Roberto, Patarnello, Tomaso, Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Barcaccia, Gianni. 2012. "DNA Barcoding as a Reliable Method for the Authentication of Commercial Seafood Products." Food Technology and Biotechnology, 50, (4) 387–398. 2012
- Gowda, Vinita, Erickson, David L., and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for two Caribbean Heliconia (Heliconiaceae: H. bihai and H. caribaea)." American Journal of Botany, 99, (2) e81–e83. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100386. 2012
- Specht, Chelsea D., Yockteng, Roxana, Almeida, Ana Maria, Kirchoff, Bruce K., and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Homoplasy, Pollination, and Emerging Complexity During the Evolution of Floral Development in the Tropical Gingers (Zingiberales)." Botanical Review, 78, (4) 440–462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-012-9111-6. 2012
- Cron, Glynis V., Pirone, Cary, Bartlett, Madelaine, Kress, W. John, and Specht, Chelsea. 2012. "Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution in the Strelitziaceae (Zingiberales)." Systematic Botany, 37, (3) 606–619. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364412X648562. 2012
- Swenson, Nathan G., Erickson, David L., Mi, Xiangcheng, Bourg, Norman Alan, Forero-Montana, Jimena, Ge, Xuejun, Howe, Robert, Lake, Jeffrey K., Liu, Xiaojuan, Ma, Keping, Pei, Nancai, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Wolf, Amy T., Wright, S. Joseph, Ye, Wanhu, Zhang, Jinlong, Zimmerman, Jess, and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Phylogenetic and Functional Alpha and Beta Diversity in Temperate and Tropical Tree Communities." Ecology, 93, (8) S112–S125. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0402.1. 2012
- Swenson, Nathan G., Stegen, James C., Davies, Stuart James, Erickson, David L., Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Hurlbert, Allen H., Kress, W. John, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Wright, S. Joseph, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2012. "Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity." Ecology, 93, (3) 490–499. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1180.1. 2012
- Gowda, Vinita, Temeles, Ethan J., and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Territorial Fidelity to Nectar Sources by Purple-throated Caribs, Eulampis Jugularis." Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124, (1) 81–86. https://doi.org/10.1676/11-061.1. 2012
- Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Valencia, Renato, Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Perez, Alvaro J., Ren, Haibao, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Gunatilleke, Savi, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Cao, Min, Suresh, H. S., Dattaraja, H. S., Sukumar, R., and Ma, Keping. 2012. "The Contribution of Rare Species to Community Phylogenetic Diversity across a Global Network of Forest Plots." American Naturalist, 180, (1) E17–E30. https://doi.org/10.1086/665999. 2012
- Gowda, Vinita, Kress, W. John, and Htun, Thet. 2012. "Two new species of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar." PhytoKeys, 13 5–14. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.13.2670. 2012
- Fleming, Theodore H. and Kress, W. John. 2011. "A brief history of fruits and frugivores." Acta Oecologica, 37, (6) 521–530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.016. 2011
- Nicolè, Silvia, Erickson, David L., Ambrosi, Daria, Bellucci, Elisa, Lucchin, Margherita, Papa, Roberto, Kress, W. John, and Barcaccia, Gianni. 2011. "Biodiversity studies in Phaseolus species by DNA barcoding." Genome, 54, (7) 529–545. https://doi.org/10.1139/g11-018. 2011
- Whitfeld, T. J. S., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., and Weiblen, G. D. 2011. "Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea." Ecography, 35, (9) 821–830. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07181.x. 2011
- Penev, Lyubomir, Stoev, Pavel, Kress, W. John, Knapp, S., and Erwin, Terry L. 2011. "Cybertaxonomy, semantic markup and semantic enhancements: The PhytoKeys and ZooKeys experience." South African Journal of Botany, 77, (2) 560–560. 2011
- Pei, Nancai, Lian, Ju-Yu, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Kress, W. John, Ye, Wan-Hui, and Ge, Xue-jun. 2011. "Exploring Tree-Habitat Associations in a Chinese Subtropical Forest Plot Using a Molecular Phylogeny Generated from DNA Barcode Loci." Plos One, 6, (6) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021273. 2011
- Gagnon, Paul R., Bruna, Emilio M., Rubim, Paulo, Darrigo, Maria Rosa, Littell, Ramon C., Uriarte, Maria, and Kress, W. John. 2011. "Growth of an understory herb is chronically reduced in Amazonian forest fragments." Biological Conservation, 144, (2) 830–835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.015. 2011
- Kress, W. John and Penev, Lyubomir. 2011. "Innovative electronic publication in plant systematics: PhytoKeys and the changes to the "Botanical Code" accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne." PhytoKeys, 6 1–4. 2011
- Martén-Rodríguez, Silvana, Kress, W. John, Temeles, Ethan J., and Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia. 2011. "Plant–pollinator interactions and floral convergence in two species of Heliconia from the Caribbean Islands." Oecologia, 167, (4) 1075–1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-2043-8. 2011
- Zhang, Z. Q., Kress, W. John, Xie, W. J., Ren, P. Y., Gao, J. Y., and Li, Q. J. 2011. "Reproductive biology of two Himalayan alpine gingers (Roscoea spp., Zingiberaceae) in China: pollination syndrome and compensatory floral mechanisms." Plant Biology, 13, (4) 582–589. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2010.00423.x. 2011
- Jones, F. Andrew, Erickson, David L., Bernal, Moises A., Bermingham, Eldredge, Kress, W. John, Herre, Edward Allen, Muller-Landau, Helene C., and Turner, Benjamin L. 2011. "The Roots of Diversity: Below Ground Species Richness and Rooting Distributions in a Tropical Forest Revealed by DNA Barcodes and Inverse Modeling." PLoS ONE, 6, (9) 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0024506. 2011
- Westbrook, Jared W., Kitajima, Kaoru, Burleigh, J. Gordon, Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., and Wright, S. Joseph. 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." American Naturalist, 177, (6) 800–811. https://doi.org/10.1086/659963. 2011
- Kress, W. John, Mood, John, Sabu, Mamiyil, Prince, Linda, Dey, Santanu, and Sanoj, E. 2010. "Larsenianthus , a New Asian Genus of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) with Four Species." PhytoKeys, 1 15–32. 2010
- Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, Maria, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2010. "Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot." PLoS ONE, 5, (11) e15409. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015409. 2010
- Penev, Lyubomir, Kress, W. John, Knapp, Sandra, Li, De-Zhu, and Renner, Susanne S. 2010. "Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys." PhytoKeys, 1, (1-14). https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.1.642. 2010
- Temeles, Ethan J. and Kress, W. John. 2010. "Mate choice and mate competition by a tropical hummingbird at a floral resource." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277 1607–1613. 2010
- Yu, F., Kress, W. John, and Gao, J. Y. 2010. "Morphology, distribution, and chromosome counts of two varieties of Hedychium villosum (Zingiberaceae)." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 48, (5) 344–349. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-6831.2010.00094.x. 2010
- Schreeg, Laura A., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., and Swenson, Nathan G. 2010. "Phylogenetic Analysis of Local-Scale Tree Soil Associations in a Lowland Moist Tropical Forest." Plos One, 5, (10) e13685. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013685. 2010
- Liu, Ai-Zhong, Kress, W. John, and Li, De-Zhu. 2010. "Phylogenetic analyses of the banana family (Musaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal (ITS) and chloroplast (trnL-F) evidence." Taxon, 59, (1) 20–28. 2010
- Penev, Lyubomir, Agosti, Donat, Georgiev, Teodor, Catapano, Terry, Miller, Jeremy, Blagoderov, Vladimir, Roberts, David, Smith, Vincent S., Brake, Irina, Ryrcroft, Simon, Scott, Ben, Johnson, Norman F., Morris, Robert A., Sautter, Guido, Chavan, Vishwas, Robertson, Tim, Remsen, David, Stoev, Pavel, Parr, Cynthia Sims, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Thompson, F. Christian, and Erwin, Terry L. 2010. "Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples." ZooKeys, 50 1–16. 2010
- Uriarte, María, Swenson, Nathan G., Chazdon, Robin L., Comita, Liza S., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Zimmerman, Jess K., and Thompson, Jill. 2010. "Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly." Ecology Letters, 13, (12) 1503–1514. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01541.x. 2010
- Hollingsworth, Peter M., Forrest, Laura L., Spouge, John L., Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, van der Bank, Michelle, Chase, Mark W., Cowan, Robyn S., Erickson, David L., Fazekas, Aron J., Graham, Sean W., James, Karen E., Kim, Ki-Joong, Kress, W. John, Schneider, Harald, van AlphenStahl, Jonathan, Barrett, Spencer C. H., van den Berg, Cassio, Bogarin, Diego, Burgess, Kevin S., Cameron, Kenneth M., Carine, Mark, Chacón, Juliana, Clark, Alexandra, Clarkson, James J. et al. 2009. "A DNA barcode for land plants." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (31) 12794–12797. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905845106. 2009
- Kress, W. John and Betancur, Julio. 2009. "A New Species of Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) from the Choco Region of Colombia." Caldasia, 31, (1) 99–104. 2009
- Krupnick, Gary A., Kress, W. John, and Wagner, Warren L. 2009. "Achieving Target 2 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: building a preliminary assessment of vascular plant species using data from herbarium specimens." Biodiversity and Conservation, 18, (6) 1459–1474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9494-1. 2009
- Cortes, M. C., Gowda, V., Kress, W. John, Bruna, Emilio M., and Uriarte, M. 2009. "Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understorey Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata." Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, (4) 1261–1264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02627.x. 2009
- Dick, Christopher W. and Kress, W. John. 2009. "Dissecting Tropical Plant Diversity with Forest Plots and a Molecular Toolkit." Bioscience, 59, (9) 745–755. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.9.6. 2009
- Temeles, Ethan J., Koulouris, Carolyn R., Sander, Sarah E., and Kress, W. John. 2009. "Effect of flower shape and size on foraging performance and trade-offs in a tropical hummingbird." Ecology, 90, (5) 1147–1161. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0695.1. 2009
- Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Jones, F. Andrew, Swenson, Nathan G., Pérez, Rolando A., Sanjur, Oris I., and Bermingham, Eldredge. 2009. "Plant DNA Barcodes and a Community Phylogeny of a Tropical Forest Dynamics Plot in Panama." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (44) 18621–18626. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909820106. 2009
- Fleming, Theodore H., Geiselman, Cullen, and Kress, W. John. 2009. "The Evolution of Bat Pollination: a Phylogenetic Perspective." Annals of Botany, 104, (6) 1017–1043. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcp197. 2009
- Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L. 2008. "DNA barcodes: Genes, genomics, and bioinformatics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, (8) 2761–2762. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800476105. 2008
- Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L. 2008. "DNA barcoding - a windfall for tropical biology?" Biotropica, 40, (4) 405–408. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00426.x. 2008
- Erickson, David L., Spouge, John, Resch, Alissa, Weigt, Lee A., and Kress, W. John. 2008. "DNA barcoding in land plants: developing standards to quantify and maximize success." Taxon, 57, (4) 1304–1316. 2008
- Gowda, Vinita and Kress, W. John. 2008. "Nectar characteristics of two Eastern Caribbean Heliconias (Heliconia: Heliconiaceae." Heliconia Society International Bulletin, 14, (4) 6–10. 2008
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Book
- Kress, W. John. 2024. Smithsonian Trees of North America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.16738701. 2024
- Singer, Jonathan, Kress, W. John, and Hachadourian, Marc. 2013. Botanica magnifica: portraits of the world's most extraordinary flowers & plants. 1st Tiny Folio ed. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers. 2013
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Chapter
- Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L. 2012. "DNA barcodes: methods and protocols." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 3–8. Humana Press. In Methods in molecular biology, 858. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_1. 2012
- Erickson, David L. and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Future directions." In DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols. 459–465. Humana Press. 858 in Methods in molecular biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_23. 2012
- Kress, W. John, Lopez, Ida C., and Erickson, David L. 2012. "Generating Plant DNA Barcodes for Trees in Long-Term Forest Dynamics Plots." In DNA Barcodes. Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L., editors. 441–458. Humana Press. In Methods in Molecular Biology, 858. 2012
- Andersson, L. L., Kress, W. John, and Maas, P. J. M. 2007. "Heliconiaceae." In Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Funk, Vicki Ann, Hollowell, Thomas H., Berry, P. E., Kelloff, Carol L., and Alexander, Sara N., editors. 110. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. In Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 2007
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Conference Paper
- Fér, Tomáš, Schmickl, Roswitha E., Záveská, Eliška, Pospíšilová, Monika, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Otakar, Ší, Poulsen, Axel D., Newman, Mark F., Kress, W. John, and Marhold, Karol. 2015. "Reconstruction of the Phylogeny of the family Zingiberaceae using HYB-SEQ approach." 10–11. Kerala, India: Calicut University. 2015
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Dataset
- Ashokan, Ajith, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Suksathan, Piyakaset, Newman, Mark, Kress, W. John, and Gowda, Vinita. 2022. [Dataset] Data from: Floral evolution and pollinator diversification in Hedychium: revisiting Darwin's predictions using an integrative taxonomic approach. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.CJSXKSN84. 2022
- Hernández, Georgia G., Perez, Timothy M., Vargas, Oscar M., Kress, W. John, Molina-Bravo, Ramón, Cordero, Roberto A., and García-Robledo, Carlos. 2022. [Dataset] Evolutionary history constrains heat tolerance of native and exotic tropical Zingiberales. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.Q573N5TMZ. 2022
- Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Valencia, Renato, Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Pérez-Castañeda, Álvaro J., Ren, Haibao, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Gunatilleke, Savi, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Cao, Min, Suresh, H. S., Dattaraja, H. S., Sukumar, R., and Ma, Keping. 2012. [Dataset] The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots. Distributed by Dryad Digital Repository. 2012
Editor Of
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Book
- Kress, W. John and Stine, Jeffrey K., editors. 2017. Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2017
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
