Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Cavender-Bares grew up in Athens, Ohio.[3] She received her B.A. in environmental sciences from Cornell University in 1990, her Masters in Forestry and Global Change from Yale University in 1992[4] and her PhD from Harvard University in 2000.[5] At Harvard Jeannine worked with Fakhri A. Bazzaz[6] and studied the physiological and evolutionary ecology of oaks (Quercus). She then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Catherine E. Lovelock[7] and at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Montpellier with Serge Rambal and Richard Joffre.[8]

She is a leading researcher in the field of 'eco-phylogenetics' or 'community phylogenetics' (her review[9] has been cited over 1500 times), and organized a special issue of the journal Ecology on that topic.[10] Cavender-Bares' research group uses concepts from the evolutionary history of plant physiology to understand how ecosystems function in the face of global climate change.

Cavender-Bares is one of the coordinating lead authors of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report for the Americas.[11] The IPBES is an independent intergovernmental body supported by multiple nations with the mission to "strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development."[12] In 2016, she helped launch the Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network, which promotes the protection of oak species across North America.[13][14]

She was a principal investigator of the NSF/NASA Dimensions of biodiversity project "Linking remotely sensed optical diversity to genetic, phylogenetic and functional diversity to predict ecosystem processes"[15] and lead editor for the open access book Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity.[16] She is the Director of an NSF-funded biology integration institute[17] ASCEND[18] on using spectral biology and predictive models for the study of biodiversity and global change.

As of 2020, Jeannine has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles or international assessments and 10 book chapters that have been cited over 20,000 times.[19]

As indexed by Google scholar her most cited papers as first author are:

• J Cavender‐Bares, KH Kozak, PVA Fine, SW Kembel (2009). The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. Ecology letters 12 (7), 693-715.
• J Cavender-Bares, DD Ackerly, DA Baum, FA Bazzaz (2004). Phylogenetic overdispersion in Floridian oak communities. The American Naturalist 163 (6), 823-843.
• J Cavender-Bares, A Keen, B Miles (2006). Phylogenetic structure of Floridian plant communities depends on taxonomic and spatial scale.Ecology 87 (sp7), S109-S122.
• J Cavender-Bares, FA Bazzaz (2000). Changes in drought response strategies with ontogeny in Quercus rubra: implications for scaling from seedlings to mature tree s. Oecologia 124 (1), 8-18.
• J Cavender-Bares, K Kitajima, FA Bazzaz (2004). Multiple trait associations in relation to habitat differentiation among 17 Floridian oak species. Ecological Monographs 74 (4), 635-662.