Jeannine Cavender‐Bares

New PhytologistVolume 229, Issue 4 p. 1861-1863 ProfileFree Access Jeannine Cavender-Bares First published: 19 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16852AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the Wiley Online Library UseShareable LinkUse link a this article with your friends colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat What inspired interest in plant science? It was windy road for me. The short answer is my Dad. I grew up Athens, Ohio (USA), which nestled foothills Appalachian Mountains. Throughout young life surrounded by nature. My father mycologist Botany Department at University (now Emeritus); he taught courses on fungi, medicinal plants, role plants human culture, tropical botany. We travelled all over North America Central collect cellular slime moulds (Dictyostelids). remember numerous camping trips hikes across continent, continually being quizzed plants. names did not really stick until began see species they play theatre For me, it became important know what each organism doing, just its name. That likely why interested function when started PhD many years later. In intervening period, however, spent motivated pressing environmental issues time. Even age, knew we were an era rapid global change, make difference through policy. Most mentors that realm had been trained first as scientists, ultimately seemed be best path forward chose study loved – field grounding myself within discipline functional ecology. recent years, turned considerable attention international efforts address escalating biodiversity loss. Why you decide pursue career research? Early on, impatient change wanted policy, but there so disappointments. seem United States ready confront climate 1990s. doing science fair projects always lot ideas energy them. As advanced, definitely roadblocks fewer than easy find meaning scientific research valued culture in. learned from do intensive careful work, does long-term impact. recognized, like generation, living critical understanding deciphering principles ecology evolution. Knowledge these essential humanity if are manage Earth's ecological systems sustainability. Box studies how traits evolutionary history current processes consequences ecosystem stability increasingly dominated planet. Her programme integrates levels biological organization leaf whole biology macroevolution goal origins consequences. so, she brings together concepts tools physiological ecology, remote sensing. She Distinguished McKnight Professor Ecology, Evolution Behavior Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA), where Assistant 2003. studied Cornell (BA), Yale (MES) Harvard (PhD) held post-doctoral positions Smithsonian CNRS France. coordinating lead author Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessment Americas. member American Academy Arts Sciences Leopold Leadership Fellow sciences. has lived worked Europe, Mexico America. joined Editorial board Phytologist Editor 2020, previously Advisor journal. more information Jeannine, visit https://cbs.umn.edu/cavender-bares-lab/home ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3375-9630 motivates day-to-day basis? am people using their stature who understand realities generation faces demanding change. Here some examples: watching biologist Scott Edwards cycle Black Lives Matter sign his bike; Greta Thunberg sail ocean statement about change; colleagues even before Covid-19 offer videos instead getting airplanes give talks sustainability other side planet; students call accountability justice; former become next diverse scientists educators, them devoting themselves educating traditionally excluded only starting pieces fit importance equity integrated way need planet Earth bringing everybody very excited sensing technologies monitor large spatial extents advance targets. These will most effective included conversation. witness women achieving dramatic gains reaching level contribution leadership implausible few decades ago highly foster long-needed diversity inclusivity Who models? fortunate incredible series models: Sheila Jasanoff, undergraduate honours thesis advisor, helped me limited making William Clark Jill Jäger introduced policy sustainability, example showed inquiry collaboration. Fakhri Bazzaz, took chance opened while demonstrating invigorating can inclusive international. David Ackerly, N. Michele Holbrook, Kaoru Kitajima, Baum, Catherine Lovelock Serge Rambal incredibly models functions molecular systematics. John Gamon catalyzed biodiversity, great deal him collaborative work. Paul Manos, wise soul stay academia, mentor oaks. Many Minnesota, abroad, different capacities. Finally, now realize person saw aunt (cousin) Judith Weis both working scientist (a marine Rutgers) mom. Because her, never questioned could family. later much work front lines clearing generation. favourite papers why? chosen following six papers, particularly like: Asner et al. (2014) lay foundation spectral reflectance (400–2500 nm) spectra classify tree lineages predict thousands Andes Amazon. Their documents potential reveal taxonomic implications monitoring satellite. Wu (2019) demonstrate measure present method estimation maximum carboxylation rate Rubisco (Vc max). Carboxylation parameter used photosynthesis. remotely variation photosynthetic capacity globe use system simulate carbon assimilation. Wang (2020) model map 26 biomes uncertainties airborne imaging spectroscopy data US National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). paper continental-scale effort spectroscopic methods NEON demonstrates mapping space. Meireles tightly coupled reveals combination radiative transfer regions underlying constrained or rapidly diverged among lineages. provides explanation arisen time informs sense phylogenetic composition. explains divergence convergence oaks (Quercus) community assembly continental scale explaining dominance temperate forests. Tansley review, case clade integrating evolution given lineage advancing genomic resources. hyperspectral canopies context, here key focal lineage. Kremer & Hipp recount success story retracing fascinating biogeographic globally. synthesizes oak genetics multiple continents. highlights insights revealed quantitative analyses, provenance trials time-calibrated phylogeny globally lineage, notorious hybridization. plant, Quercus virginiana, specifically ‘Angel oak’ Charleston, South Carolina Johns Island (Fig. 1). A single forms basis entire aboveground belowground. decade studying southern live closest relatives (Quercus section Virentes). thousand densest wood any probably branches extend horizontally, width crown often wider height. place early history. build skeletons naval ships, including during Revolutionary War. Sadly, overharvested protected states. One close relatives, Q. oleoides, equally majestic. Starting Tamaulipas Mexico, makes far south Guanacaste Costa Rica. addition three northern relative Cuba (Q. sagraena) one Baja California Sur brandegeei) small populations threatened extinction. Fig. 1Open figure viewerPowerPoint Angel oak, Island, Carolina, USA. Photograph credit: Pete Lanphear. References GP, Martin RE, Carranza-Jiménez L, Sinca F, Tupayachi R, Anderson CB, Martinez P. 2014. Functional foliar throughout Amazon region. 204: 127– 139. LibraryPubMedWeb Science®Google Scholar J. 2019. Diversification, adaptation, (Quercus), 221: 669– 692. A, AL. 2020. Oaks: story. 226: 987– 1011. JE, J, Townsend PA, Ustin S, JA, Schweiger AK, Schaepman ME, Singh Leaf capture seed Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.16771. Z, Chlus Geygan Ye Zheng T, Couture JJ, Kruger EL, PA. Foliar eastern 228: 494– 511. Rogers Albert LP, Ely K, Prohaska N, Wolfe BT, Oliveira RC Jr, Saleska SR, Serbin SP. captures species, canopy environment age lowland moist 224: 663– 674. LibraryCASPubMedWeb Volume229, Issue4February 2021Pages FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation