Rebecca Yahr | |
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Alma mater | Duke University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Lichenology |
Institutions | Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Yahr |
Rebecca Yahr is an American lichenologist who works at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland. She was President of the British Lichen Society from 2019 until 2021. [1]
Rebecca Yahr was born in the United States and grew up near the Appalachian Mountains. [2] She studied botany at University of California, Davis for her B. Sc. degree, awarded in 1994. [2] She gained her doctorate from Duke University in 2004 for research into how the relationship between the fungi and algae within a lichen evolve over time. [2]
From 1991 until 1998 Yahr worked as a botanical research scientist, firstly for the California Native Plant Society and then at Archbold Biological Station in Florida, USA, where she began to be interested in lichens. [2] [3] In 2005 she took up a research fellowship at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK and from 2006 has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh in Scotland. [4] Her research concerns the evolution of lichens. She uses historical data and specimens, biogeography and molecular biology. [1] She also studies the processes that underlie the lichen symbiosis. [1]
She has served on the editorial boards of The Lichenologist and the Edinburgh Journal of Botany since 2010. [1] [5]
From 2019 until 2022 she was President of the British Lichen Society, having served as Vice President from 2018 until 2019. [2]
Since 2020 she has been the co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Lichen Specialist Group. [6] She contributes samples to the Darwin Tree of Life Project. [2]
Yahr collaborated in the characterisation of Opegrapha viridipruinosa Coppins & Yahr (renamed Alyxoria viridipruinosa (Coppins & Yahr) Ertz) [7] and Phaeographis illitoraticola Lendemer, R.C. Harris & Yahr (now Phaeographis atromaculata (A.W.Archer) A.W.Archer). [8]
She is the author or co-author of over 45 scientific publications and several book chapters. These include:
In 1994 she was awarded a Young Botanist Award from the Botanical Society of America. [9]
The lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after her in 2000. [10]
In October 2023 the Systematics Association invited Yahr to give the society's annual Founders Lecture. [11]
Yahr is married to ecologist Chris Ellis and they have two children together. [2]
Rebecca Yahr | |
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Alma mater | Duke University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Lichenology |
Institutions | Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Yahr |
Rebecca Yahr is an American lichenologist who works at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland. She was President of the British Lichen Society from 2019 until 2021. [1]
Rebecca Yahr was born in the United States and grew up near the Appalachian Mountains. [2] She studied botany at University of California, Davis for her B. Sc. degree, awarded in 1994. [2] She gained her doctorate from Duke University in 2004 for research into how the relationship between the fungi and algae within a lichen evolve over time. [2]
From 1991 until 1998 Yahr worked as a botanical research scientist, firstly for the California Native Plant Society and then at Archbold Biological Station in Florida, USA, where she began to be interested in lichens. [2] [3] In 2005 she took up a research fellowship at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK and from 2006 has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh in Scotland. [4] Her research concerns the evolution of lichens. She uses historical data and specimens, biogeography and molecular biology. [1] She also studies the processes that underlie the lichen symbiosis. [1]
She has served on the editorial boards of The Lichenologist and the Edinburgh Journal of Botany since 2010. [1] [5]
From 2019 until 2022 she was President of the British Lichen Society, having served as Vice President from 2018 until 2019. [2]
Since 2020 she has been the co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Lichen Specialist Group. [6] She contributes samples to the Darwin Tree of Life Project. [2]
Yahr collaborated in the characterisation of Opegrapha viridipruinosa Coppins & Yahr (renamed Alyxoria viridipruinosa (Coppins & Yahr) Ertz) [7] and Phaeographis illitoraticola Lendemer, R.C. Harris & Yahr (now Phaeographis atromaculata (A.W.Archer) A.W.Archer). [8]
She is the author or co-author of over 45 scientific publications and several book chapters. These include:
In 1994 she was awarded a Young Botanist Award from the Botanical Society of America. [9]
The lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after her in 2000. [10]
In October 2023 the Systematics Association invited Yahr to give the society's annual Founders Lecture. [11]
Yahr is married to ecologist Chris Ellis and they have two children together. [2]