Karl J. Niklas

Karl Joseph Niklas (born 1948) is a Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the field of Plant Biology at the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University.[1] His work is mainly focused on plant biomechanics, allometry, and functional morphology. He contributed to research in plant evolutionary biology, particularly early land plant evolutionary diversification patterns and morphospaces.[2]

Education

Niklas completed his undergraduate studies at City College of New York.[3] He earned his Ph.D. in paleobiology from the University of Illinois in 1974 and carried out his postdoctoral work at Birkbeck College in London as a Fulbright-Hays Fellow.[2]

Career

Niklas, previously a curator at the New York Botanical Garden, joined the Cornell faculty in 1978. In 1985, he became a full-time professor and was appointed as a Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in 2000. He has authored over 480 peer-reviewed scientific papers and five books,[4] and has received awards for teaching, such as the SUNY Chancellor's Award for teaching in 1995.[3] In addition, he was a member of the Botanical Society of America and served as its president from 2008 until 2009, where he was succeeded by Kent Holsinger. He was the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Botany (1995 – 2004),[2] and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.[5]

Selected works

Books

  • Plant Biomechanics, 1992 (ISBN 978-0226586311)
  • Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process, 1994 (ISBN 978-0226580814)[6]
  • The Evolutionary Biology of Plants, 1997 (ISBN 978-0226580838)[7]
  • Plant Physics, 2012 (co-authored with Hanns-Christof Spatz) (ISBN 978-0226586328)
  • Plant Evolution: An Introduction to the History of Life, 2016 (ISBN 978-0-226-34214-6)

Awards and distinctions

  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship [2][8]
  • The Botanical Society of America’s Centennial Medal [2]
  • Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung prize for senior USA scientists [2]
  • Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences [5]
  • Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

References

  1. ^ "Karl Joseph Niklas Faculty Page". Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University. 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Purpose in Evolution: Participants". John Templeton Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  4. ^ "Karl Niklas | CALS". cals.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
  5. ^ a b "Karl J. Niklas | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2025-04-28. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  6. ^ Klinkhamer, Peter G. L. (March 1995). "Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process : by Karl J. Niklas University of Chicago Press, 1994". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 10 (3): 134. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(00)89015-1.
  7. ^ Yee, Danny (August 1997). "The Evolutionary Biology of Plants, Karl J. Niklas". Danny Yee. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Karl J. Niklas". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Niklas.


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