Janice Lord
Janice Lord | |
|---|---|
| Born | Janice Marjorie Lord |
| Education | University of Canterbury |
| Known for | Curator of the Otago Regional Herbarium |
| Awards | Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecture award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plant evolutionary ecology, reproduction and pollination biology |
| Workplaces | University of Otago |
| Thesis | |
Janice Marjorie Lord is a New Zealand academic, a plant evolutionary biologist, and as of 2025 is a full professor at the University of Otago, where she is the curator of the Otago Regional Herbarium.[1]
Academic career
[edit]After a PhD titled The evolutionary ecology of Festuca novae-zelandiae in mid-Canterbury, New Zealand, submitted to the University of Canterbury in 1992,[2] Lord moved to the Department of Botany at the University of Otago, where she became an associate professor in 2017 and a full professor in 2025.[1][3][4]
Lord's research focuses on how the New Zealand fauna have shaped plant flora through pollination and fruit dispersal systems. She has worked particularly on alpine plant communities, but has also published on subantarctic megaherbs, and the use of traditional knowledge of native plants in botany. She is also interested in mycorrhizal flora for ecological restoration, and carbon sequestration by native plants. She is a principal investigator for the 1 Billion Trees project, and is part of the Otago Climate Change Network.[1][5]
Lord received the Leonard Cockayne Lecture Award in 2015; she was only the second female recipient after Lucy Moore won the first award in 1965. Lord gave her lectures on subantarctic flora.[6]
In 2017, Lord featured as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words, celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[5]
Selected works
[edit]- S. Walton; Lord, Janice Marjorie; A. J. Lord; V. Kahui (2023). "Conflicts between being a "Good Farmer" and freshwater policy: A New Zealand case study". Agriculture and Human Values. doi:10.1007/s10460-023-10471-1. Wikidata Q121432307.
- Lord, Janice Marjorie; Norton, David Andrew (1990). "Scale and the Spatial Concept of Fragmentation". Conservation Biology. 4 (2): 197–202. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1990.tb00109.x. Wikidata Q63601674.
- Lord, Janice Marjorie; Westoby, Mark; Leishman, Michelle Ruth (1995). "Seed Size and Phylogeny in Six Temperate Floras: Constraints, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptation". The American Naturalist. 146 (3): 349–364. doi:10.1086/285804. Wikidata Q57046510.
- Campbell, Diane; M Bischoff; Lord, Janice Marjorie; Robertson, Alastair William (2011). "Where have all the blue flowers gone: pollinator responses and selection on flower colour in New Zealand Wahlenbergia albomarginata". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25 (2): 352–364. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02430.x. PMID 22151952. Wikidata Q38435639.
- Lord, Janice Marjorie; A. S. Markey; J. Marshall, Have frugivores influenced the evolution of fruit traits in New Zealand?, pp. 55–68, doi:10.1079/9780851995250.0055, Wikidata Q63601510
- Lord, Janice Marjorie; Judy Egan; Trevor Clifford; Enrique Jurado; Leishman, Michelle Ruth; Dick Williams; Westoby, Mark (1997). "Larger seeds in tropical floras: consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode". Journal of Biogeography. 24 (2): 205–211. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x. Wikidata Q57046499.
- Lord, Janice Marjorie (2004). "Frugivore gape size and the evolution of fruit size and shape in southern hemisphere floras". Austral Ecology. 29 (4): 430–436. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01382.x. Wikidata Q63601496.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Department of Botany. "Dr Janice Lord". www.otago.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ↑ Lord, Janice (1992). The evolutionary ecology of Festuca Novae-Zelandiae in Mid-Canterbury, New Zealand (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7227. hdl:10092/4900.
- ↑ "Ritchie among 23 promoted to professor | Otago Daily Times Online News". 6 June 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ↑ Otago, University of (10 December 2024). "Otago announces 33 new professors". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- 1 2 "Jancie Lord". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ↑ Gibb, John (4 August 2015). "Memorial award for Otago botanist". Otago Daily Times. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
External links
[edit]- Janice Lord publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Publications by Janice Lord at ResearchGate
- 2016 podcast from the BBC series "Planet Earth II" featuring Lord talking about her interest in subantarctic megaherbs
