Yr Athro Dianne Edwards

MA, PhD, ScD(Cantab) CBE FRS FRSE FLS FLSW

Distinguished Research Professor

Ysgol Gwyddorau'r Ddaear a’r Amgylchedd

: edwardsd2@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2087 4264
: 1.11, Y Prif Adeilad, Plas y Parc, Caerdydd, CF10 3AT

Interests

Palaeobotany

Academia

BA (Cantab)
Sc.D (Cantab)
Hon ScD (Dublin)

Affiliations

Professor Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America.

2022

Edwards, D., Li, C. and Berry, C. M. 2022. Lower Devonian lycophytes from Sichuan and the palaeogeographic context of coeval plant assemblages from South China. International Journal of Plant Sciences 183(6) (10.1086/720387)
Edwards, D., Morris, J. L., Axe, L., Taylor, W. A., Duckett, J. G., Kenrick, P. and Pressel, S. 2022. Earliest record of transfer cells in Lower Devonian plants. New Phytologist 233(3), pp. 1456-1465. (10.1111/nph.17704)

2020

Edwards, D., Axe, L., Morris, J. L., Boddy, L. and Selden, P. 2020. Further evidence for fungivory in the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, UK. PalZ. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 94, pp. 603-618. (10.1007/s12542-019-00503-9)

2018

Edwards, D. and Li, C. 2018. Diversity in affinities of plants with lateral sporangia from the Lower Devonian of Sichuan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 258, pp. 98-111. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.07.002)
Morris, J. and Edwards, D. 2018. The advantages and frustrations of a plant Lagerstätte as illustrated by a new taxon from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland, UK.. In: Krings, M. et al. eds. Transformative Paleobotany 1st Edition. Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. Academic Press
Edwards, D. and Li, C. 2018. Further insights into the Lower Devonian terrestrial vegetation of Sichuan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 253, pp. 37-48. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2018.03.004)
Edwards, D., Honegger, R., Axe, L. and Morris, J. L. 2018. Anatomically preserved Silurian 'nematophytes' from the Welsh Borderland (UK). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 187(2), pp. 272-291. (10.1093/botlinnean/boy022)
Morris, J. L. et al. 2018. Timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(10), pp. E2274-E2283. (10.1073/pnas.1719588115)
Puttick, M. N. et al. 2018. The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte. Current Biology 28(5), pp. 733-745.e2. (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063)
Honegger, R., Edwards, D., Axe, L. and Strullu-Derrien, C. 2018. Fertile Prototaxites taiti: a basal ascomycete with inoperculate, polysporous asci lacking croziers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373(1739), article number: 20170146. (10.1098/rstb.2017.0146)
Edwards, D., Kenrick, P. and Dolan, L. 2018. History and contemporary significance of the Rhynie cherts - our earliest preserved terrestrial ecosystem.. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences 373(1739), article number: 20160489. (10.1098/rstb.2016.0489)

2017

Benton, M. J., Briggs, D. E. G., Clack, J. A., Edwards, D., Galway-Witham, J., Stringer, C. B. and Turvey, S. T. 2017. Russia-UK collaboration in paleontology: past, present, and future. Paleontological Journal 51(6), pp. 576-599. (10.1134/S0031030117060028)
Edwards, D. 2017. Q & A Dianne Edwards. Current Biology 27(14), pp. R685-R686. (10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.054)
Edwards, D. 2017. Glimpses of the botanical history of Wales. The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 23, pp. 8-18.

2016

Edwards, D., Geng, B. and Li, C. 2016. New plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China. Plos One 11(11), pp. e0163549. (10.1371/journal.pone.0163549)

2015

Edwards, D., Yang, N., Hueber, F. M. and Li, C. 2015. Additional observations on Zosterophyllum yunnanicum Hsü from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 221, pp. 220-229. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.03.007)
Edwards, D., Cherns, L. and Raven, A. J. 2015. Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid- Palaeozoic times?. Palaeontology 58(5), pp. 803-837. (10.1111/pala.12187)
Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 2015. The early evolution of land plants, from fossils to genomics: a commentary on Lang (1937) 'On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 370(1666), article number: 20140343. (10.1098/rstb.2014.0343)
Edwards, D. 2015. A palaeobotanical pot-pourri. Palaeontology 58(1), pp. 1-3. (10.1111/pala.12143)

2014

Morris, J. and Edwards, D. 2014. An analysis of vegetational change in the Lower Devonian: New data from the Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211, pp. 28-54. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.09.006)
Edwards, D., Morris, J., Richardson, J. B. and Kenrick, P. 2014. Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras. New Phytologist 202(1), pp. 50-78. (10.1111/nph.12645)
Raven, J. A. and Edwards, D. 2014. Photosynthesis in early land plants: adapting to the terrestrial environment. In: Hanson, D. T. and Rice, S. K. eds. Photosynthesis in Bryophytes and Early Land Plants., Vol. 37. Springer, pp. 29-58., (10.1007/978-94-007-6988-5_3)

2010

Morris, J. L., Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 2010. Small is beautiful: new investigations into Lower Devonian plant mesofossils and their in situ spores. Presented at: 25th New Phytologist / Colston Research Society Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment, Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, UK, 21-22 September 2010.

2009

Edwards, D., Axe, L., Poire, D. G., Morel, E. M., Bassett, M. . and Cingolani, C. A. 2009. Enigmatic fossils from the Upper Silurian of Bolivia: evidence for marine productivity in high-latitude Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 325(1), pp. 177-200. (10.1144/SP325.10)
Yang, N., Li, C. S. and Edwards, D. 2009. Hueberia Zhichangensis gen. et sp. nov, an Early Devonian (Pragian) plant from Yunnan, China. Palynology 33(1), pp. 113-124. (10.2113/gspalynol.33.1.113)
Edwards, D., Poire, D. G., Morel, E. M. and Cingolani, C. A. 2009. Plant assemblages from SW Gondwana: further evidence for high-latitude vegetation in the Devonian of Argentina. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 325(1), pp. 233-255. (10.1144/SP325.12)
Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2009. Silicification of higher plants in geothermally influenced wetlands: Yellowstone as a Lower Devonian Rhynie analog. Palaios 24(8), pp. 505-521. (10.2110/palo.2008.p08-131r)
Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2009. Yellowstone hot spring environments and the palaeo-ecophysiology of Rhynie chert plants: towards a synthesis. Plant Ecology & Diversity 2(2), pp. 111-143. (10.1080/17550870903349359)

2008

Baars, C., Jones, T. H. and Edwards, D. 2008. Microcosm studies of the role of land plants in elevating soil carbon dioxide and chemical weathering. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22(3), article number: GB3019. (10.1029/2008GB003228)
Yang, N., Edwards, D., Ablaev, A. and Li, C. 2008. The discovery of fertile Haskinsia colophylla (Haskinsiaceae) in far East Russia. Taxon 57(2), pp. 588-593.
Baars, C. and Edwards, D. 2008. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on spore capsules of the moss Leptobryum pyriforme. Journal of Bryology 30(1), pp. 36-40. (10.1179/174328208X282094)
Hillier, R. D., Edwards, D. and Morrissey, L. B. 2008. Sedimentological evidence for rooting structures in the Early Devonian Anglo-Welsh Basin (UK), with speculation on their producers. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 270(3-4), pp. 366-380. (10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.038)

2007

Edwards, D., Wang, Y., Bassett, M. G. and Li, C. 2007. The earliest vascular plant or a later rooting system? Pinnatiramosus qianensis from the marine Lower Silurian Xiushan Formation, Guizhou Province, China. Palaios 22(2), pp. 155-165. (10.2110/palo.2005.p05-125r)

2006

Edwards, D., Axe, L., Parkes, R. J. and Rickard, D. T. 2006. Provenance and age of bacteria-like structures on mid-Palaeozoic plant fossils. International Journal of Astrobiology 5(2), pp. 109-142. (10.1017/S147355040600303X)
Glasspool, I. J., Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2006. Charcoal in the Early Devonian: A wildfire-derived Konservat–Lagerstätte. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142(3-4), pp. 131-136. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.021)
Edwards, D. 2006. Danziella artesiana, a new name for Zosterophyllum artesianum from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142(3-4), pp. 93-101. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008)
Edwards, D., Li, C. and Raven, J. A. 2006. Tracheids in an early vascular plant: a tale of two branches. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 150(1), pp. 115-130. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00450.x)

2005

Sun, T., Edwards, D. and Li, C. 2005. The stomatal apparatus of Lycopodium japonicum and its bearing on the stomata of the Devonian lycophyte Drepanophycus spinaeformis. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 149(2), pp. 209-216. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00434.x)

2004

Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 2004. Silurian and Lower Devonian plant assemblages from the Anglo-Welsh Basin: a palaeobotanical and palynological synthesis. Geological Journal 39(34), pp. 375-402. (10.1002/gj.997)
Channing, A., Edwards, D. and Sturtevant, S. 2004. A geothermally influenced wetland containing unconsolidated geochemical sediments. Canadian journal of earth sciences 41(7), pp. 809-827. (10.1139/e04-034)
Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2004. Anatomical evidence in the detection of the earliest wildfires. Palaios 19(2), pp. 113-128. (10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0113:AEITDO>2.0.CO;2)
Edwards, D., Banks, H. P., Ciurca, S. J. J. and Laub, R. S. 2004. New Silurian cooksonias from dolostones of north-eastern North America. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 146(4), pp. 399-413. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2004.00332.x)
Glasspool, I. J., Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2004. Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire. Geology 32(5), pp. 381-383. (10.1130/G20363.1)
Raven, J. A. and Edwards, D. 2004. Physiological evolution of lower embryophytes: adaptations to the terrestrial environment. In: Hemsley, A. R. and Poole, I. eds. The Evolution of Plant Physiology. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 21. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 17-41.

2003

Edwards, D., Axe, L. and Duckett, J. G. 2003. Diversity in conducting cells in early land plants and comparisons with extant bryophytes. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(3), pp. 297-347. (10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.00153.x)
Channing, A. and Edwards, D. 2003. Experimental taphonomy: silicification of plants in Yellowstone hot-spring environments. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth sciences 94(4), pp. 503-521. (10.1017/S0263593300000845)
Edwards, D. 2003. Xylem in early tracheophytes. Plant, Cell & Environment 26(1), pp. 57-72. (10.1046/j.1365-3040.2003.00878.x)
Edwards, D. 2003. Embryophytic sporophytes in the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 94(4), pp. 397-410. (10.1017/S0263593300000778)

2002

Grimes, S. T. et al. 2002. Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization. Journal of the Geological Society 159(5), pp. 493-501. (10.1144/0016-764901-176)
Habgood, K. S., Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2002. New perspectives on Cooksonia from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139(4), pp. 339-359. (10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00073.x)
Rogerson, C., Edwards, D., Axe, L. and Davies, K. L. 2002. A new embryophyte from the Upper Silurian of Shropshire, England. In: Studies in Palaeozoic Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy in Honour of Charles Hepworth Holland. Special Papers in Palaeontology Vol. 67. Aberystwyth: Palaeontological Association, pp. 233-249.

2001

Edwards, D., Morel, E., Poire, D. G. and Cingolani, C. A. 2001. Land plants in the Devonian Villavicencio Formation, Mendoza Province, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 116(1-2), pp. 1-18. (10.1016/S0034-6667(01)00059-8)
Edwards, D., Morel, E. M., Paredes, F., Ganuza, D. G. and Zuniga, A. 2001. Plant assemblages from the Silurian of southern Bolivia and their palaeogeographic significance. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135(3), pp. 229-250. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2001.tb01093.x)
Raven, J. A. and Edwards, D. 2001. Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance. Journal of Experimental Botany 52(S1), pp. 381-401. (10.1093/jexbot/52.suppl_1.381)
Grimes, S. T., Brock, F., Rickard, D. T., Davies, K. L., Edwards, D., Briggs, D. and Parkes, R. J. 2001. Understanding fossilization: Experimental pyritization of plants. Geology -Boulder- 29(2), pp. 123-126. (10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0123:UFEPOP>2.0.CO;2)
Gensel, P. and Edwards, D. eds. 2001. Plants invade the land: evolutionary & environmental perspectives. Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology. New York: Columbia University Press.
Edwards, D., Axe, L. and Mendez, E. 2001. A new genus for isolated bivalved sporangia with thickened margins from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 137(3), pp. 297-310. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2001.tb01125.x)
Edwards, D. 2001. Early land plants. In: Briggs, D. E. G. and Crowther, P. R. eds. Palaeobiology II: A Synthesis. Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 63-66.
Edwards, D. and Wellman, C. 2001. Embryophytes on land: the Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) record. In: Gensel, P. and Edwards, D. eds. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary & Environmental Perspectives. Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 3-28.

2000

Edwards, D. 2000. The role of Mid-Palaeozoic mesofossils in the detection of early bryophytes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 355(1398), pp. 733-755. (10.1098/rstb.2000.0613)
Edwards, D., Duckett, J. G. and Read, D. J. 2000. Preface: Bryophyte phylogeny and interrelationships with early embryophytes - Papers of a discussion meeting organized and edited by D. Edwards, D. J. Read & J. G. Duckett. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 355(1398), pp. 715-715. (10.1098/rstb.2000.0611)
Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 2000. Novel conducting tissues in Lower Devonian plants. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 134(1-2), pp. 383-399. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.2000.tb02359.x)
Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 2000. Progress in reconstructing vegetation on the Old Red Sandstone Continent: two Emphanisporites producers from the Lochkovian sequence of the Welsh Borderland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 180, pp. 355-370. (10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.180.01.18)
Powell, C. L., Trewin, N. H. and Edwards, D. 2000. Palaeoecology and plant succession in a borehole through the Rhynie cherts, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Scotland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 180, pp. 439-457. (10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.180.01.23)
Edwards, D., Fairon-Demaret, M. and Berry, C. M. 2000. Plant megafossils in Devonian stratigraphy: a progress report. In: Bultynck, P. ed. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy: Fossil groups important for boundary definition. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Vol. 220. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, pp. 25-37.

1999

Edwards, D., Wellman, C. H. and Axe, L. 1999. Tetrads in sporangia and spore masses from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 130(2), pp. 111-156. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1999.tb00515.x)
Powell, C. L., Edwards, D. and Trewin, N. H. 1999. A new vascular plant from the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert, Rhynie, NE Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 90, pp. 331-349.
Edwards, D. 1999. Origins of plant architecture: adapting to life in a brave new world. In: Kurmann, M. H. and Hemsley, A. R. eds. The Evolution of Plant Architecture. Brough: Kew Publishing, pp. 3-21.
Hilton, J. and Edwards, D. 1999. New data on Xenotheca devonica Arber and Goode, an enigmatic early seed plant cupule with preovules. In: Kurmann, M. H. and Hemsley, A. R. eds. The Evolution of Plant Architecture. Brough: Kew Publishing, pp. 75-90.

1998

Wellman, C. H., Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1998. Ultrastructure of laevigate hilate spores in sporangia and spore masses from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 353(1378), pp. 1983-2004.
Wellman, C. H., Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1998. Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 127(2), pp. 117-147. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1998.tb02092.x)
Wellman, C. H., Thomas, R. G., Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 1998. The Cosheston Group (Lower Old Red Sandstone) in southwest Wales: age, correlation and palaeobotanical significance. Geological Magazine 135(3), pp. 397-412. (10.1017/S0016756898008723)
Abbott, G. D., Ewbank, G., Edwards, D. and Wang, G. 1998. Molecular characterization of some enigmatic Lower Devonian fossils. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 62(8), pp. 1407-1418. (10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00078-7)
Edwards, D., Kerp, H. and Hass, H. 1998. Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach. Journal of Experimental Botany 49(90001), pp. 255-278. (10.1093/jxb/49.Special_Issue.255)
Edwards, D. 1998. Climate signals in Palaeozoic land plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 353(1365), pp. 141-157. (10.1098/rstb.1998.0197)
Edwards, D., Wellman, C. and Axe, L. 1998. The fossil record of early land plants and interrelationships between primitive embryophytes: too little and too late?. In: Bates, J. W., Ashton, N. W. and Duckett, J. G. eds. Bryology for the Twenty-First Century. Leeds: British Bryological Society (Maney Publishing), pp. 15-43.

1997

Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1997. A new species of the lycopsid Gilboaphyton Arnold from the Devonian of Venezuela and New York State, with a revision of the closely related genus Archaeosigillaria Kidston. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 96(1-2), pp. 47-70. (10.1016/S0034-6667(96)00015-2)
Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1997. A new microphyllous plant from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. American Journal of Botany 84(10), pp. 1441-1448. (10.2307/2446142)
Edwards, D., Ewbank, G. and Abbott, G. D. 1997. Flash pyrolysis of the outer cortical tissues in Lower DevonianPsilophyton dawsonii. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 124(4), pp. 345-360. (10.1006/bojl.1997.0101)
Edwards, D. 1997. Charting diversity in early land plants: Some challenges for the next millennium. In: Iwatsuki, K. and Raven, P. H. eds. Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants. Tokyo: Springer, pp. 3-26.

1996

Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1996. Erratum: The herbaceous lycophyte Haskinsia Grierson and Banks from the Devonian of western Venezuela, with observations on leaf morphology and fertile specimens. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 122(4), pp. 371-371. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1996.tb02083.x)
Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1996. The herbaceous lycophyte Haskinsia Grierson and Banks from the Devonian of western Venezuela, with observations on leaf morphology and fertile specimens. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 122(2), pp. 103-122. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1996.tb02067.x)
Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1996. Anapaulia moodyi gen et sp nov: A probable iridopteridalean compression fossil from the Devonian of western Venezuela. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93(1-4), pp. 127-145. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00123-9)
Hilton, J. and Edwards, D. 1996. A new Late Devonian acupulate preovule from the Taff Gorge, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93(1-4), pp. 235-252. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00128-X)
Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1996. Demersatheca Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 93(1-4), pp. 77-88. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4)
Edwards, D. 1996. New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a Lilliputian world. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 90(3-4), pp. 159-174. (10.1016/0034-6667(95)00081-X)
Ewbank, G., Edwards, D. and Abbott, G. D. 1996. Chemical characterization of Lower Devonian vascular plants. Organic Geochemistry 25(8), pp. 461-473. (10.1016/S0146-6380(96)00140-4)
Wellman, C. H., Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1996. Curation of exceptionally preserved early land plant fossils: problems and solutions. Curator: The Museum Journal 39(3), pp. 209-216. (10.1111/j.2151-6952.1996.tb01094.x)
Edwards, D., Davies, K. L., Richardson, J. B., Wellman, C. H. and Axe, L. 1996. Ultrastructure of synorisporites downtonensis and retusotriletes cf. coronadus in spore masses from the Pridoli of the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 39(3), pp. 783-800.
Edwards, D., Abbott, G. D. and Raven, J. A. 1996. Cuticles of early land plants: a palaeoecophysiological evaluation. In: Plant Cuticles an integrated functional approach. Environmental Plant Biology Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers, pp. 1-31.
Edwards, D. and Wellman, C. 1996. Older plant macerals (excluding spores). In: Jansonius, J. and McGregor, D. C. eds. Palynology: Principles and Applications., Vol. 1. Salt Lake City: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation (Publishers Press), pp. 383-387.
Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1996. Review of in situ spores in early land plants. In: Jansonius, J. and McGregor, D. C. eds. Palynology: Principles and Applications., Vol. 1. Salt Lake City: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation (Publishers Press), pp. 391-407.

1995

Edwards, D., Selden, P. A., Richardson, J. B. and Axe, L. 1995. Coprolites as evidence for plant–animal interaction in Siluro–Devonian terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 377(6547), pp. 329-331. (10.1038/377329a0)
Edwards, D., Duckett, J. G. and Richardson, J. B. 1995. Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants. Nature 374(6523), pp. 635-636. (10.1038/374635a0)
Edwards, D., Fanning, U., Davies, K. L., Axe, L. and Richardson, J. B. 1995. Exceptional preservation in Lower Devonian coalified fossils from the Welsh Borderland: a new genus based on reniform sporangia lacking thickened borders. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 117(3), pp. 233-254. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00454.x)
Edwards, D., Davies, K. L., Richardson, J. B. and Axe, L. 1995. The ultrastructure of spores of Cooksonia pertoni. Palaeontology 38(1), pp. 153-168.
Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1995. New species of the lycophyte Colpodexylon Banks from the Devonian of Venezuela. Palaeontographica Abteilung B -Stuttgart- 237(1-3), pp. 59-74.
Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1995. A re-investigation of Halle's Drepanophycus spinaeformis Göpp. from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, southern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 118(3), pp. 163-192. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb00468.x)
Morel, E., Edwards, D. and Iñigez Rodriguez, M. 1995. The first record of Cooksonia from South America in Silurian rocks of Bolivia. Geological Magazine 132(4), pp. 449-452. (10.1017/S0016756800021506)

1994

Berry, C. M. and Edwards, D. 1994. New data on the morphology and anatomy of the Devonian zosterophyll Serrulacaulis Hueber and Banks from Venezuela. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 81(2-4), pp. 141-150. (10.1016/0034-6667(94)90104-X)
Edwards, D., Fanning, U. and Richardson, J. B. 1994. Lower Devonian coalified sporangia from Shropshire: Salopella Edwards & Richardson and Tortilicaulis Edwards. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 116(2), pp. 89-110. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1994.tb00425.x)
Edwards, D. 1994. Towards an understanding of pattern and process in the growth of early vascular plants. In: Ingram, D. S. and Hudson, A. eds. Shape and Form in Plants and Fungi. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 16. London: Linnean Society of London (Academic Press), pp. 39-59.

1993

Edwards, D. 1993. Cells and tissues in the vegetative sporophytes of early land plants. New Phytologist 125(2), pp. 225-247. (10.1111/j.1469-8137.1993.tb03879.x)
Rogerson, E. C. W., Edwards, D., Davies, K. L. and Richardson, J. B. 1993. Identification of in situ spores in a Silurian Cooksonia from the Welsh Borderland. In: Collinson, M. E. and Scott, A. C. eds. Studies in Palaeobotany and Palynology in Honour of Professor W.G. Chaloner. Special Papers in Palaeontology Vol. 49. London: The Palaeontological Association, pp. 17-30.
Cai, C., Dou, Y. and Edwards, D. 1993. New observations on a Pridoli plant assemblage from north Xinjiang, northwest China, with comments on its evolutionary and palaeogeographical significance. Geological Magazine 130(2), pp. 155-170. (10.1017/S0016756800009821)
Lees, D. R. and Edwards, D. eds. 1993. Evolutionary patterns and processes. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 14. London: Academic Press.

1992

Edwards, D., Davies, K. L. and Axe, L. 1992. A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia. Nature 357(6380), pp. 683-685. (10.1038/357683a0)
Fanning, U., Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1992. A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 109(2), pp. 161-188. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1992.tb00264.x)
Edwards, D. and Axe, L. 1992. Stomata and mechanics of stomatal functioning in some early land plants. Presented at: International Symposium on Palaeobotany "Anatomical Investigations of Plant Fossils": 3rd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1990 Presented at Schaarschmidt, F. ed.International Symposium on Palaeobotany "Anatomical Investigations of Plant Fossils": 3rd International Senckenberg Conference Frankfurt am Main 1990. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Vol. 147. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart und Borntraeger pp. 59-73.
Li, C. and Edwards, D. 1992. A new genus of early land plants with novel strobilar construction from the Lower Devonian Posongchong Formation, Yunnan Province, China. Palaeontology 35(2), pp. 257-272.
Edwards, D. and Selden, P. A. 1992. The development of early terrestrial ecosystems. Botanical Journal of Scotland 46(2), pp. 337-366. (10.1080/03746600508684794)

1991

Burgess, N. D. and Edwards, D. 1991. Classification of uppermost Ordovician to Lower Devonian tubular and filamentous macerals from the Anglo-Welsh Basin. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 106(1), pp. 41-66. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1991.tb02282.x)
Edwards, D. and Berry, C. M. 1991. Silurian and Devonian. In: Cleal, C. J. ed. Plant Fossils in Geological Investigation: The Palaeozoic. Ellis Horwood series in applied geology Chichester: Ellis Horwood Limited, pp. 117-153.
Lyon, A. G. and Edwards, D. 1991. The first zosterophyll from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert, Aberdeenshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 82, pp. 323-332.
Kenrick, P., Edwards, D. and Dales, R. C. 1991. Novel ultrastructure in water-conducting cells of the Lower Devonian plant Sennicaulis hippocrepiformis. Palaeontology 34(4), pp. 751-766.
Fanning, U., Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 1991. A review of in situ spores in Silurian land plants. In: Blackmore, S. and Barnes, S. H. eds. Pollen and Spores: Patterns of Diversification. Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 44. Oxford: The Systematics Association (Clarendon Press), pp. 25-47.
Fanning, U., Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1991. A new rhyniophytoid from the late Silurian of the Welsh Borderland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 183, pp. 37-47.

1990

Jeram, A. J., Selden, P. A. and Edwards, D. 1990. Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England. Science 250(4981), pp. 658-661. (10.1126/science.250.4981.658)
Fanning, U., Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1990. Further evidence for diversity in late Silurian land vegetation. Journal of the Geological Society 147(4), pp. 725-728. (10.1144/gsjgs.147.4.0725)
Edwards, D. and Burgess, N. D. 1990. Plants. In: Briggs, D. E. G. and Crowther, P. R. eds. Palaeobiology: A Synthesis. Paleobiology Vol. 1. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 60-64.
Edwards, D. and Davies, M. S. 1990. Interpretations of early land plant radiations: 'facile adaptationist guesswork' or reasoned speculation?. In: Taylor, P. D. and Larwood, G. P. eds. Major Evolutionary Radiations. The Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 42. Oxford: Systematics Association (Clarendon Press), pp. 351-376.
Edwards, D. 1990. Constraints on Silurian and Early Devonian phytogeographic analysis based on megafossils. Geological Society of London Memoirs 12, pp. 233-242. (10.1144/GSL.MEM.1990.012.01.22)
Edwards, D. 1990. Silurian-Devonian paleobotany: problems, progress, and potential. In: Taylor, T. N. and Taylor, E. L. eds. Antarctic Paleobiology. Its role in the reconstruction of Gondwana. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 89-101.

1989

Edwards, D., Kenrick, P. and Carluccio, L. M. 1989. A reconsideration of cf. Psilophyton princeps (Croft & Lang, 1942), a zosterophyll widespread in the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 100(4), pp. 293-318. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb01723.x)
Shute, C. H. and Edwards, D. 1989. A new rhyniopsid with novel sporangium organization from the Lower Devonian of South Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 100(2), pp. 111-137. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb01713.x)
Selden, P. A. and Edwards, D. 1989. Colonisation of the land. In: Allen, K. and Briggs, D. E. G. eds. Evolution and the Fossil Record. London: Belhaven Press (Pinter Publishers Ltd), pp. 122-152.
Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 1989. Sporomorphs and plant megafossils. In: Holland, C. H. and Bassett, M. G. eds. A Global Standard for The Silurian System. National Museum of Wales, Geological Series Vol. 9. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, pp. 216-226.
Edwards, D. 1989. Evolutionary innovation in early land plants. In: Harper, D. A. T. ed. William King D.Sc. - A Palaeontological Tribute. Galway: Galway University Press, pp. 33-43.

1988

Kenrick, P. and Edwards, D. 1988. A new zosterophyll from a recently discovered exposure of the Lower Devonian Senni Beds in Dyfed, Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 98(2), pp. 97-115. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb01698.x)
Burgess, N. D. and Edwards, D. 1988. A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to Prototaxites Dawson. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 97(2), pp. 189-203. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x)
Kenrick, P. and Edwards, D. 1988. The anatomy of Lower Devonian Gosslingia breconensis Heard based on pyritized axes, with some comments on the permineralization process. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 97(2), pp. 95-123. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02456.x)
Fanning, U., Richardson, J. B. and Edwards, D. 1988. Cryptic evolution in an early land plant. Evolutionary Trends in Plants (ETP) 2(1), pp. 13-24.

1987

Larsen, P., Edwards, D. and Escher, J. C. 1987. Late Silurian plant megafossils from the Peary Land Group, North Greenland. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 133, pp. 107-112.

1986

Edwards, D. and Edwards, D. S. 1986. A reconsideration of the Rhyniophytina Banks. Presented at: International Symposium on Systematic and Taxonomic Approaches in Palaeobotany, London, UK, April 1985 Presented at Spicer, R. and Thomas, B. eds.Systematic and Taxonomic Approaches in Palaeobotany: Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Goldsmiths' College, London, April 1985. The Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 31. Oxford: Systematics Association (Clarendon Press) pp. 199-220.
Edwards, D., Fanning, U. and Richardson, J. B. 1986. Stomata and sterome in early land plants. Nature 323(6087), pp. 438-440. (10.1038/323438a0)
Edwards, D., Rose, V., Axe, L. and Kenrick, P. 1986. Studies on Lower Devonian petrifactions from Britain, 3. Notes on putative fungal remains in zosterophylls from the Brecon Beacons, Powys, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 48(1-3), pp. 241-251. (10.1016/0034-6667(86)90060-6)
Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 1986. A new zosterophyll from the Lower Devonian of Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 92(3), pp. 269-283. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1986.tb01432.x)
Edwards, D. 1986. Dispersed cuticles of putative non-vascular plants from the Lower Devonian of Britain. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 93(3), pp. 259-275. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1982.tb01025.x)
Ager, D. and Edwards, D. 1986. The fauna and flora of the Rhaetian of South Wales and adjacent areas. Nature in Wales, N.s. 4(1/2), pp. 71-79.
Edwards, D. 1986. Preservation in early vascular plants. Geology Today 2(6), pp. 176-181. (10.1111/j.1365-2451.1986.tb00202.x)

1985

Edwards, D., Fanning, U. and Chaloner, W. G. 1985. Evolution and environment in the Late Silurian-Early Devonian: The rise of the Pteridophytes [and discussion]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 309(1138), pp. 147-165. (10.1098/rstb.1985.0076)
Edwards, D. and Benedetto, J. L. 1985. Two new species of herbaceous lycopods from the Devonian of Venezuela with comments on their taphonomy. Palaeontology 28(3), pp. 599-618.

1984

Edwards, D. and Rose, V. 1984. Cuticles of Nematothallus: a further enigma. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 88(1-2), pp. 35-54. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1984.tb01563.x)

1983

Edwards, D., Feehan, J. and Smith, D. G. 1983. A late Wenlock flora from Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 86(1-2), pp. 19-36. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1983.tb00715.x)
Dick, M. W. and Edwards, D. eds. 1983. Contributions to palaeontology: Retirement tribute to Professor W. S. Lacey. London: Academic Press Inc. (The Linnean Society of London).

1982

Edwards, D. 1982. Fragmentary non-vascular plant microfossils from the late Silurian of Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 84(3), pp. 223-256. (10.1111/j.1095-8339.1982.tb00536.x)
Bassett, M. G. and Edwards, D. 1982. Fossil plants from Wales. Geological Series Vol. 2. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.
Edwards, D., Edwards, D. S. and Rayner, R. 1982. The cuticle of early vascular plants and its evolutionary significance. In: Cutler, E. F., Alvin, K. A. and Price, C. E. eds. The Plant Cuticle. Linnean Society Symposium Series Vol. 10. Academic Press, pp. 341-361.

1981

Edwards, D. 1981. Studies on Lower Devonian petrifactions from Britain. 2. Sennicaulis, a new form genus for sterile axes based on pyrite and limonite petrifactions from the Senni Beds. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 32(2-3), pp. 207-226. (10.1016/0034-6667(81)90004-X)

1980

Edwards, D. 1980. Studies on Lower devonian petrifactions from Britain. 1. Pyritised axes of Hostinella from the Brecon Beacons Quarry, Powys, South Wales. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 29, pp. 189-200. (10.1016/0034-6667(80)90058-5)
Edwards, D. and Feehan, J. 1980. Records of Cooksonia-type sporangia from late Wenlock strata in Ireland. Nature 287(5777), pp. 41-42. (10.1038/287041a0)
Edwards, D. 1980. Early land floras. In: Panchen, A. L. ed. The Terrestrial Environment and the Origin of Land Vertebrates. The Systematics Association Special Volume Vol. 15. London: Academic Press, pp. 55-85.

1979

Edwards, D., Bassett, M. G. and Rogerson, E. C. W. 1979. The earliest vascular land plants: continuing the search for proof. Lethaia 12(4), pp. 313-324. (10.1111/j.1502-3931.1979.tb01017.x)
Edwards, D. 1979. The early history of vascular plants based on late Silurian and early Devonian floras of the British Isles. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 8, pp. 405-410. (10.1144/GSL.SP.1979.008.01.46)
Edwards, D. and Rogerson, E. C. W. 1979. New records of fertile Rhyniophytina from the late Silurian of Wales. Geological Magazine 116(2), pp. 93-98. (10.1017/S0016756800042503)
Edwards, D. 1979. A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed. Palaeontology 22(1), pp. 23-52.

1978

Edwards, D., Richardson, J. B. and Thomas, R. G. 1978. Locality B8, B9, B10. Presented at: International Symposium on the Devonian System (P.A.D.S. 78), Bristol, UK, September 1978 Presented at Friend, P. F. and Williams, B. P. J. eds.A field guide to selected outcrop areas of the Devonian of Scotland, the Welsh Borderland and South Wales: International Symposium on the Devonian System (P.A.D.S. 78), September 1978. Special Papers in Palaeontology Vol. 23. London: The Palaeontological Association pp. 74-79.

1977

Edwards, D. 1977. A new non-calcified alga from the upper Silurian of mid Wales. Palaeontology 20(4), pp. 823-832.

1976

Edwards, D. 1976. The systematic position of Hicklingia edwardii Kidston and Lang. New Phytologist 76(1), pp. 173-181. (10.1111/j.1469-8137.1976.tb01449.x)
Edwards, D. and Davies, E. C. W. 1976. Oldest recorded in situ tracheids. Nature 263(5577), pp. 494-495. (10.1038/263494a0)
Scott, A. C., Edwards, D. and Rolfe, W. D. I. 1976. Fossiliferous Lower Old Red Sandstone near Cardross, Dunbartonshire. Proceedings of the Geological Society of Glasgow 117, pp. 4-5.

1975

Edwards, D. 1975. Some observations on the fertile parts of Zosterophyllum myretonianum Penhallow from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 69(11), pp. 251-265.
Matten, L. C., Lacey, W. S. and Edwards, D. 1975. Discovery of one of the oldest gymnosperm floras containing cupulate seeds. Phytologia 32(4), pp. 299-303.

1974

Edwards, D. and Richardson, J. B. 1974. Lower Devonian (Dittonian) plants from the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 17(2), pp. 311-324.

1973

Bassett, M. G. and Edwards, D. 1973. Fossil plants from Wales. Amgueddfa, Bulletin of the National Museum of Wales 13, pp. 2-27.
Gayer, R. A., Allen, K. C., Bassett, M. G. and Edwards, D. 1973. The structure of the Taff Gorge area, Glamorgan, and the stratigraphy of the Old Red Sandstone—Carboniferous Limestone transition. Geological Journal 8(2), pp. 345-374. (10.1002/gj.3350080212)
Edwards, D. 1973. Devonian floras. In: Hallam, A. ed. Atlas of Palaeobiogeography. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific, pp. 105-115.

1972

Edwards, D. 1972. A Zosterophyllum fructification from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 14(1-2), pp. 77-83. (10.1016/0034-6667(72)90009-7)

1970

Edwards, D. 1970. Further observations on the Lower Devonian Plant, Gosslingia breconensis Heard. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 258(821), pp. 225-243. (10.1098/rstb.1970.0034)
Edwards, D. 1970. Fertile rhyniophytina from the Lower Devonian of Britain. Palaeontology 13(3), pp. 451-461.

1969

Edwards, D. 1969. Further observations on Zosterophyllum llanoveranum from the Lower Devonian of South Wales. American Journal of Botany 56(2), pp. 201-210.
Edwards, D. 1969. Zosterophyllum from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales. New Phytologist 68(4), pp. 923-931. (10.1111/j.1469-8137.1969.tb06491.x)

1968

Edwards, D. 1968. A new plant from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales. Palaeontology 11(5), pp. 683-690.

1965

Edwards, D. and Banks, H. P. 1965. Branching in Gosslingia breconensis. American Journal of Botany 52(6), pp. 636.

Professor Dianne Edwards is a botanist who carries out interdisciplinary research relating to the invasion of the land by plants, some 400 million years ago and the impact of early land vegetation on the evolution of animals, lithosphere and atmosphere.

Research Areas

Professor Dianne Edwards research specialises in the thorough morphological and anatomical descriptions of the fossils using a wide range of techniques including scanning and transmission electron microscopy. With such a data base it becomes possible to speculate more confidently on the evolution, palaeoecology, palaeophysiology and phytogeography of the plants and their roles in early terrestrial ecosystems.