Dr Paul Kenrick

Dr Paul Kenrick

Principal Researcher

Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology
Specialisms: Fossil Plants, Palaeobotany, Plant Evolution
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Summary

I am a palaeobotanist whose scientific research focuses on the early evolution of life on land and its broader impact on key Earth Systems (e.g., Carbon Cycle). Current interests include the development of soil ecosystems, the origin and evolution of plant organs and tissues, and the co-evolution of plants and fungi.

My work is currently partly funded by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council: NE/N002067/1 The Origin of Plants: Genomes, Rocks, and Biogeochemical Cycles (Jan 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2018).

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
  • BSc, Department of Plant Science, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Employment history

    Academic

  • Research Scientist, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, London, 1998 - ongoing
  • Head of Invertebrates and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2015
  • Acting Keeper, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 2011 - 2011
  • Head of Research, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 2009 - 2012
  • Visiting Professor, Oxford University, Plant Sciences, United Kingdom, 2008 - 2011
  • Head of Invertebrates and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2006
  • Curator, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Palaeobotany, Sweden, 1993 - 1998
  • Assistant Curator, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Palaeobotany, Sweden, 1991 - 1993

Grants

Workshop on "Origins and evolution of plants and their interactions with fungi"
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Strullu-Derrien C
Funding: New Phytologist
Total value £10,000 (to Museum £10,000)
Dates: 2013 - 2014

PLANT developmental biology: discovering the ORIGINS of form
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £1,656,098 (to Museum £209,853)
Dates: 2010 - 2014

The Origin of Plants: Genomes, rocks, and biogeochemical cycles.
Role: Principal investigatorSchneider H
Co-investigator: Pressel S
Funding: NERC
Total value £293,354 (to Museum £210,919.17)
Dates: 2016 - 2018

Consultancy

King Abdullah International Gardens
2006 - on going.

The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History
2011 - on going.

World Around Them
2011 - on going.

Lost World Returns: Mysteries of the Dinosaurs
2006 - on going.

Prehistoric: The Definitive Visual Guide
2009 - on going.

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
1999 - on going.

Fieldwork

Iceland
2014 - 2014.

External Positions

Palaeontographical Society Council, Member 2013 - 2016.

Fellowships

Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1999 - on going.

Memberships

Council member, 2014 - 2016.

Member, The Systematics Association, 1999 - on going.

International Organisation of Palaeobotanists.

Botanical Society of America, St. Louis, United States.

Editorships

Associate editor, American Journal of Botany, Botanical Society of America, 2005 - on going.

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor & Francis, 2003 - on going.

Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, Springer, 2000 - 2004.

Events

Conference Attendance

Invited Keynote Address, Oral presentation, Organiser, Poster presentation, Session chair, 9th European Palaeobotany - Palynology Conference, (Conference), 2014 - 2014.

Workshop Attendance

Oral presentation, Organiser, Session chair, Workshop, 10th New Phytologist Workshop: Origins and evolution of plants and their interactions with fungi., (Workshop), 2014 - 2014.

Organisation

Organiser, T2-24: The Origin of Plants: rocks, genomes and geochemistry, (Symposium), 2017 - 2017.

Organising committee, Royal Society Discussion Meeting: The Rhynie Chert – our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited, (Conference), 2017 - 2017.

Publications

Delaux P-M, Hetherington AJ, Coudert Y, Delwiche C, Dunand C, Gould S, Kenrick P, Li F-W, Philippe H, Rensing SA, Rich M, Strullu-Derrien C, de Vries J (2019) Reconstructing trait evolution in plant evo–devo studies. Current Biology, 29 (21) : R1110 - R1118. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.044

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Goral T, Knoll AH (2019) Testate Amoebae in the 407-Million-Year-Old Rhynie Chert. Current Biology, 29 (3) : 461 - 467.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.009

Morris JL, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Yang Z, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ (2018) Reply to Hedges et al.: Accurate timetrees do indeed require accurate calibrations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (41) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812816115

Strullu‐Derrien C, Selosse M, Kenrick P, Martin FM (2018) The origin and evolution of mycorrhizal symbioses: from palaeomycology to phylogenomics. New Phytologist, 220 (4) : 1012 - 1030. doi: 10.1111/nph.15076

Morris JL, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Yang Z, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ (2018) The timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (10) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719588115

Puttick MN, Morris JL, Williams TA, Cox CJ, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Schneider H, Pisani D, Donoghue PCJ (2018) The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte. Current Biology, 28 (5) : 733 - 745.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063

Edwards D, Kenrick P, Dolan L (2018) History and contemporary significance of the Rhynie cherts—our earliest preserved terrestrial ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20160489 - 20160489. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0489

Kenrick P (2018) Changing expressions: a hypothesis for the origin of the vascular plant life cycle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20170149 - 20170149. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0149

Kenrick P (2017) How land plant life cycles first evolved. Science, 358 (6370) : 1538 - 1539. doi: 10.1126/science.aan2923

Strullu-Derrien C, Spencer ART, Goral T, Dee J, Honegger R, Kenrick P, Longcore JE, Berbee ML (2018) New insights into the evolutionary history of Fungi from a 407 Ma Blastocladiomycota fossil showing a complex hyphal thallus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20160502 - 20160502. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0502

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (2017) Confocal laser scanning microscopy: a powerful method for the study of Rhynie and Windyfield Chert (ca 407 Ma) microorgansims. Edwards D, Dolan L, Kenrick P (Eds). The Rhynie Chert: our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited, 63 3 - 6 3 3

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Longcore JE, Olesen J, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (null) A New Chytridiomycete Fungus Intermixed with Crustacean Resting Eggs in a 407-Million-Year-Old Continental Freshwater Environment. PLOS ONE, 11 (12) : e0167301 - e0167301. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167301

Mitchell RL, Cuadros J, Duckett JG, Pressel S, Mavris C, Sykes D, Najorka J, Edgecombe GD, Kenrick P (2016) Mineral weathering and soil development in the earliest land plant ecosystems. Geology, 44 (12) : 1007 - 1010. doi: 10.1130/g38449.1

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Selosse M-A (2016) Origins of the mycorrhizal symbioses, In: Molecular mycorrhizal symbiosis, Martin F (Eds). Wiley, Blackwell : 3 - 20.

Mitchell RL, Cuadros J, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Mavris C, Sykes D, Najorka J, Edgecombe GD, Kenrick P (2016) LEAVING THEIR MARK: BIOLOGICALLY-INDUCED MINERAL WEATHERING AND SOIL DEVELOPMENT IN ANCIENT LAND-PLANT ECOSYSTEMS. GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Geological Society of America : doi: 10.1130/abs/2016am-282635

Collinson ME, Adams NF, Manchester SR, Stull GW, Herrera F, Smith SY, Andrew MJ, Kenrick P, Sykes D (2016) X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) of pyrite-permineralized fruits and seeds from the London Clay Formation (Ypresian) conserved in silicone oil: a critical evaluation. Botany 94 (9) : Canadian Science Publishing : 697 - 711. doi: 10.1139/cjb-2016-0078

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Longcore JE, Olesen J, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (2016) Fungal interactions in early fossil freshwater environments. 38th New Phytologist Symposium, 257 7 - 25 7 7Programme, abstracts and participants 44 - 44.

Hibbett D, Blanchette R, Kenrick P, Mills B (2016) Climate, decay, and the death of the coal forests. Current Biology, 26 (13) : R563 - R567. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.014

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C, Mitchell R (2016) The early fossil record of land plants and their environment. 38 New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016, 257 7 - 25 7 7

kenrick P (null) New model systems for early land plant evolution (w16-05) Vienna, Austria, 22 - 24 June 2016. EMBO Workshop: New model systems for early land plant evolution, 226 6 - 22 6 6

Chaloner WG, Kenrick P (2015) Did Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition discover fossil Nothofagus in Antarctica?. The Linnean, 31 (2) : 11 - 17.

Kenrick P (2015) Before roots, shoots, and leaves: the early fossil record of plants on land. Systematics Association Biennial (2015), 268 8 - 26 8 8

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien , Mitchell (2015) The early evolution of roots and soils. 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, 38 8 - 3 8 8

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien , Mitchell (2015) The origins of land plant communities. Botany 2015 - Science and Plants for People, 257 7 - 25 7 7

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Rioult JP, Martin F (2015) Combining studies on fossils and genomics to understand mycorrhizal plant relationships. 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 8), 38 8 - 3 8 8

Strullu-Derrien C, Wawrzyniak Z, Goral T, Kenrick P (2015) Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plantAsteroxylon mackieifrom the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 179 (1) : 201 - 213. doi: 10.1111/boj.12307

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2015) Fossil evidence of fungal-plant interactions in early terrestrial environments. Botany 2015, 257 7 - 25 7 7

Selosse M, Strullu‐Derrien C, Martin FM, Kamoun S, Kenrick P (2015) Plants, fungi and oomycetes: a 400‐million year affair that shapes the biosphere. New Phytologist, 206 (2) : 501 - 506. doi: 10.1111/nph.13371

Edwards D, 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 B: Biological Sciences, 370 (1666) : 20140343 - 20140343. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0343

Steart DC, Spencer ART, Garwood RJ, Hilton J, Munt MC, Needham J, Kenrick P (null) X-ray Synchrotron Microtomography of a silicified Jurassic Cheirolepidiaceae (Conifer) cone: histology and morphology ofPararaucaria collinsonaesp. nov.. PeerJ, 2 : e624 - e624. doi: 10.7717/peerj.624

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C (2014) The origin and early evolution of roots.. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 166 (2) : 570 - 580. doi: 10.1104/pp.114.244517

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Tafforeau P, Cochard H, Bonnemain J-L, Le Hérissé A, Lardeux H, Badel E (2014) The earliest wood and its hydraulic properties documented inc. 407-million-year-old fossils using synchrotron microtomography. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (3) : 423 - 437. doi: 10.1111/boj.12175

Strullu‐Derrien C, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Rioult J, Strullu D (2014) Fungal associations in H orneophyton ligneri from the R hynie C hert ( c . 407 million year old) closely resemble those in extant lower land plants: novel insights into ancestral plant–fungus symbioses. New Phytologist, 203 (3) : 964 - 979. doi: 10.1111/nph.12805

Edwards D, Morris JL, Richardson JB, Kenrick P (2014) Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras. New Phytologist, 202 (1) : 50 - 78. doi: 10.1111/nph.12645

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2013) Champignons et plantes: une union très ancienne. 418 : 50 - 53.

Kenrick P (2013) Glossopteris - the legacy of Gondwana, In: The Munich Show - Mineralientage München - 2013, Fründt R (Eds). Wachholtz Verlag : Neumünster / Hamburg. 116 - 117.

Kenrick P (2013) The origin of roots, In: Plant roots: the hidden half, Taylor & Francis, London : 1 - 13.

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Badel E, Cochard H, Tafforeau P (2013) An overview of the hydraulic systems in early land plants. IAWA Journal, 34 (4) : 333 - 351. doi: 10.1163/22941932-00000029

Kenrick P, Wellman CH, Schneider H, Edgecombe GD (2012) A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367 (1588) : 519 - 536. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0271

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Rioult JP, Strullu DG (2011) Evidence of parasitic Oomycetes (Peronosporomycetes) infecting the stem cortex of the Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1706) : 675 - 680. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1603

Kenrick P (2011) Timescales and timetrees. New Phytologist, 192 (1) : 3 - 6. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03856.x

BUTLER RJ, BARRETT PM, PENN MG, KENRICK P (null) Testing coevolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Cretaceous dinosaurs and plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 100 (1) : 1 - 15. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01401.x

BUTLER RJ, BARRETT PM, KENRICK P, PENN MG (2009) Diversity patterns amongst herbivorous dinosaurs and plants during the Cretaceous: implications for hypotheses of dinosaur/angiosperm co-evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22 (3) : 446 - 459. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01680.x

Butler RJ, Barrett PM, Kenrick P, Penn MG (2009) Testing co-evolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs and cycads. Biological Reviews, 84 (1) : 73 - 89. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00065.x

Ensom P, Kenrick P, Edmonds R, Cripps J, Hayes P (2009) A fossil tree trunk in the Intermarine Member, Durlston Formation, Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 130 : 183 - 187.

KENRICK P (2009) The Stamp of Approval. Waterhouse Times, Spring 2009. 64 : :

Bateman RM, Kenrick P, Rothwell GW (2007) Do eligulate herbaceous lycopsids occur in Carboniferous strata? Hestia eremosa gen. et sp. nov. from the Mississippian of Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 144 (3-4) : 323 - 335. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.08.002

Kenrick P (2007) A palaeobotanist finds answers to the origin of roots in the genes of a living moss. Nature, 448 : 515 - 515.

Kenrick P (2007) Gymnosperm Phylogeny, In: Brief History of the Gymnosperms: classification, biodiversity, phytogeography and ecology, South Africa National Biodiversity Institute, Pret : 18 - 19.

KENRICK P (2007) The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History. The Palaeontology Newsletter. 66 : : 60 - 62.

DeVore ML, Kenrick P, Pigg KB, Ketcham RA (2006) Utility of high resolution x‐ray computed tomography (HRXCT) for paleobotanical studies: an example using London Clay fruits and seeds. American Journal of Botany, 93 (12) : 1848 - 1851. doi: 10.3732/ajb.93.12.1848

Kenrick P, Vinther J (2006) Chaetocladus gracilis n. sp., a non-calcified Dasycladales from the Upper Silurian of Skåne, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 142 (3-4) : 153 - 160. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.023

Kenrick P (2006) Report on a Timeline Strategy for the Botanical Displays in the King Abdullah International Gardens, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. : The Natural History MuseumLondon. 1 - 10.

Kenrick P (2005) Palaeobotany. :

Korall P, Kenrick P (2004) The phylogenetic history of Selaginellaceae based on DNA sequences from the plastid and nucleus: extreme substitution rates and rate heterogeneity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31 (3) : 852 - 864. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.10.014

Forey PL, Fortey RA, Kenrick P, Smith AB (2004) Taxonomy and fossils: a critical appraisal. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 359 (1444) : 639 - 653. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1453

Kenrick P, Davis P, others (2004) Fossil plants.. Natural History Museum :

Kenrick P, Selley RC, Cocks LRM, Plimer IR (2004) Angiosperms, In: null, Elsevier :

Kenrick P, Selley RC, Cocks LRM, Plimer IR (2004) Gymnosperms, In: null, Elsevier :

Hilton J, Geng B, Kenrick P (2003) A Novel Late Devonian (Frasnian) Woody Cladoxylopsid from China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164 (5) : 793 - 805. doi: 10.1086/376815

Kenrick P (2003) Fishing for the first plants. Nature, 425 (6955) : 248 - 249. doi: 10.1038/425248a

Wikström N, Kenrick P, Vogel JC (2002) Schizaeaceae: a phylogenetic approach. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 119 (1-2) : 35 - 50. doi: 10.1016/s0034-6667(01)00128-2

Korall P, Kenrick P (2002) Phylogenetic relationships in Selaginellaceae based on RBCL sequences. American Journal of Botany, 89 (3) : 506 - 517. doi: 10.3732/ajb.89.3.506

Kenrick P (2002) The telome theory, In: null, London; Chapman & Hall; 1998 : 365 - 387.

Schneider H, Kenrick P (2001) An Early Cretaceous root-climbing epiphyte (Lindsaeaceae) and its significance for calibrating the diversification of polypodiaceous ferns. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 115 (1-2) : 33 - 41. doi: 10.1016/s0034-6667(01)00048-3

Wikström N, Kenrick P (2001) Evolution of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopsida): Estimating Divergence Times from rbcL Gene Sequences by Use of Nonparametric Rate Smoothing. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19 (2) : 177 - 186. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0936

Kenrick P (2001) Turning over a new leaf. Nature, 410 (6826) : 309 - 310. doi: 10.1038/35066649

Kenrick P (2001) Embryophyta (Land Plants). eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd :

Kenrick P (2000) The relationships of vascular plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 355 (1398) : 847 - 855. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0619

Kenrick P, al E (2000) Cretaceous plant fossils from the Kohung area, Chonnam, Korea. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea, 16 : 45 - 56.

Kenrick P, Edwards D (2000) The role of Mid-Palaeozoic mesofossils in the detection of early bryophytes-Discussion. ROYAL SOC LONDON 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON SW1Y 5AG, ENGLAND :

Kenrick P, Wellman C, Gray J, Chaloner WG (2000) The microfossil record of early land plants-Discussion. ROYAL SOC LONDON 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON SW1Y 5AG, ENGLAND :

Newton AE, Duckett JG, Read DJ, Kenrick P (2000) Symbiotic fungal associations in’lower’land plants-Discussion. ROYAL SOC LONDON 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON SW1Y 5AG, ENGLAND :

Wikstrom N, Kenrick P (2000) Relationships of Lycopodium and Lycopodiella Based on Combined Plastid rbcL Gene and trnL Intron Sequence Data. Systematic Botany, 25 (3) : 495 - 495. doi: 10.2307/2666692

Wikström N, Kenrick P (2000) Phylogeny of epiphytic Huperzia (Lycopodiaceae): paleotropical and neotropical clades corroborated by rbcL sequences. Nordic Journal of Botany, 20 (2) : 165 - 171. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2000.tb01561.x

You HS, Kenrick P, al E (2000) Palaeodepositional environment of the Cretaceous Hampyeong Basin, southwestern Korea. Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society, 21 : 683 - 694.

Kenrick P, Kvacek Z, Bengtson S (1999) Semblant Land Plants from the Middle Ordovician of the Prague Basin Reinterpreted as Animals. Palaeontology, 42 (6) : 991 - 1002. doi: 10.1111/1475-4983.00106

Kenrick P (1999) The family tree flowers. Nature, 402 (6760) : 358 - 359. doi: 10.1038/46437

Kenrick P (1999) Plants for the Victorian Geological Illustrations, Crystal Palace Park. : The Natural History MuseumLondon. 1 - 24.

Korall P, Kenrick P, Therrien JP (1999) Phylogeny of Selaginellaceae: Evaluation of Generic/Subgeneric Relationships Based on rbcL Gene Sequences. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 160 (3) : 585 - 594. doi: 10.1086/314137

Zhu W-Q, Kenrick P (1999) A Zosterophyllum-like plant from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 105 (1-2) : 111 - 118. doi: 10.1016/s0034-6667(98)00070-0

Kenrick P (1999) Opaque petrifaction techniques, In: Fossil plants and spores: modern techniques, Geological Society, London : 87 - 91.

Wikstr�m N, Kenrick P, Chase M (1999) Epiphytism and terrestrialization in tropicalHuperzia (Lycopodiaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution, 218 (3-4) : 221 - 243. doi: 10.1007/bf01089229

WELLMAN CH, THOMAS RG, EDWARDS D, KENRICK P (1998) The Cosheston Group (Lower Old Red Sandstone) in southwest Wales: age, correlation and palaeobotanical significance. Geological Magazine, 135 (3) : 397 - 412. doi: 10.1017/s0016756898008723

Bateman RM, Crane PR, DiMichele WA, Kenrick PR, Rowe NP, Speck T, Stein WE (1998) EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 29 (1) : 263 - 292. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.263

Kelber KP, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert JHA, Nakagawa T, Garfi G, Reille M, Verlaque R, Salzmann U, Waller M, Kenrick P, Li CS, others (1998) Book Review Atlas de polen de plantas útiles y cultivadas de la Amazonia Colombiana. Pollen atlas of useful and cultivated plants in the Colombian Amazon region, by LF Herrera and LE Urrego—H. Hooghiemstra.......... 123. :

Kenrick P, Li C-S (1998) An early, non-calcified, dasycladalean alga from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 100 : 73 - 88.

Crane PR, Kenrick P (1997) Diverted development of reproductive organs: a source of morphological innovation in land plants. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 206 : 161 - 174.

Kenrick P, Crane PR (1997) The origin and early diversification of land plants: a cladistic study. Smithsonian Institution Press : Washington. 441.

Kenrick P, Crane PR (1997) The origin and early evolution of plants on land. Nature, 389 (6646) : 33 - 39. doi: 10.1038/37918

Wikström N, Kenrick P (1997) Phylogeny of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopsida) and the relationships of Phylloglossum drummondii Kunze based on rbcL sequences. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 862 - 871.

Crane PR, Kenrick P (1996) Problems in cladistic classification: higher-level relationships in land plants. Aliso, 15 : 87 - 104.

Kenrick P, Crane P (1996) Embryophytes. Land Plants. 1 : Version :

Kenrick P, Friis EM (1995) Paleobotany of land plants, In: Progress in botany, Springer Berlin Heidelberg : 372 - 395.

KENRICK P (1994) Alternation of generations in land plants: new phylogenetic and palaeobotanical evidence. Biological Reviews, 69 : 293 - 330.

Kenrick P (1991) The structure of the water-conducting cells in the enigmatic early land plants Stockmansella langii Fairon-Demaret, Huvenia kleui Hass et Remy and Sciadophyton sp. Remy et al. 1980. Argumenta Palaeobotanica, 8 : 179 - 191.

Kenrick P, Crane PR (1991) Water-conducting cells in early fossil land plants: implications for the early evolution of tracheophytes. Botanical Gazette, 335 - 356.

Kenrick P, Edwards D, Dales RC (1991) Novel ultrastructure in water-conducting cells of the Lower Devonian plant Sennicaulis hippocrepiformis. Palaeontology, 34 : 751 - 766.

KENRICK P, FAIRON-DEMARET M (1991) Archaeopteris roemeriana (Göppert) sensu Stockmans, 1948 from the Upper Famennian of Belgium: anatomy and leaf polymorphism. Bulletin-Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la terre, 61 : 179 - 195.

EDWARDS D, KENRICK P, CARLUCCIO LM (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) : 293 - 318. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb01723.x

Kenrick P (1988) Studies on Lower Devonian plants from South Wales. PhD Thesis.

KENRICK P, 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) : 97 - 115. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb01698.x

KENRICK P, 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) : 95 - 123. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02456.x

Edwards D, Rose V, Axe LP, 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) : 241 - 251. doi: 10.1016/0034-6667(86)90060-6

EDWARDS D, KENRICK P (1986) A new zosterophyll from the Lower Devonian of Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 92 (3) : 269 - 283. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1986.tb01432.x

Mitchell RL, Strullu‐Derrien C, Sykes D, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Kenrick P (2021) Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils. Geobiology, 19 (3) : 292 - 306. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12431

Strullu-Derrien C, kenrick P, Goral T (null) The importance of microenvironment in determining the roles of early diverging Fungi in early terrestrial ecosystems. Palaeontological Association Annual meeting, 1912 12 - 19 12 12

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2018) Thomas Norwood Taylor (1938–2016). Mycologia, 110 (2) : 448 - 452. doi: 10.1080/00275514.2018.1462080

Strullu‐Derrien C, Le Hérissé A, Goral T, Spencer ART, Kenrick P (2021) The overlooked aquatic green algal component of early terrestrial environments: Triskelia scotlandica gen. et sp. nov. from the Rhynie cherts. Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (2) : 709 - 719. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1303

Contributed Publications

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C, Mitchell R (2016) The early fossil record of land plants and their environment. 38 New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016, 257 7 - 25 7 7

kenrick P (null) New model systems for early land plant evolution (w16-05) Vienna, Austria, 22 - 24 June 2016. EMBO Workshop: New model systems for early land plant evolution, 226 6 - 22 6 6

Courses taught

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2019.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution

11/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2018 - 3/2018.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution

11/2016.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics
10/2016 - 10/2017.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Module 10: Palaeobiology
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
2/2016 - 3/2016.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Module 2: Introduction to the Tree of Life
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
10/2015.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
10/2015.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Module 10 Palaeobiology
The Natural History Museum, London
Imperial College, London
3/2015.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module


3/2015.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Module 2 Introduction to the Tree of Life
The Natural History Museum, London
Imperial College, London
10/2014.

Third year: Palaeobiology: Fossil Plants
Imperial College, London
3/2014.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeontology & Stratigraphy Module
Imperial College, London
The Natural History Museum, London
3/2014.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Introduction to the Tree of Life Module
Imperial College, London
10/2013.

MSc: Terrestrial Palaeoecology MSc module: RHUL GL4810
University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
11/2009 - 2/2014.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Long E
Co supervisor(s): Edgecombe GD
Ecology and evolution of the earliest terrestrial animals

Funding: NERC DTP
1/10/2020 - 29/9/2023.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Ball A
Co supervisor(s): Wellman C
The Late Silurian - Early Devonian Adaptive Radiation ('Explosion') of Vascular Plants
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC ACCE DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Master's Lead supervisor to Naware D
Co supervisor(s): Kenrick P
Genome size evolution in early land plants
, London, UK
30/9/2016 - 29/9/2017.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Ewin T
Funding: Natural Environment Research Council

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Wikström N
Evolution of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopsida) - Relations and Patterns of Diversification

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Korall P
Phylogeny of Selaginellaceae

Examiner

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)
19/12/2016

External examiner, Doctoral degree
5/11/2014

University examiner, Doctoral degree
23/10/2013

External examiner, Masters degree
4/4/2012

External examiner, Masters degree
30/6/2011

Awards

Bicentennial Medal, 1999.

Henry Allan Gleason Award, 1998.

Michael A. Cichan Award, 1991.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, The Origin of Plants: rocks, genomes and geochemistry, International Botanical Congress: 24/7/2017.

Invited speaker, The early evolution of land plants and their life cycles, The Rhynie Chert – our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited: 6/3/2017.

Invited speaker, The early fossil record of land plants and their environments, 38th New Phytologist Symposium: 26/7/2016.

Invited speaker, Early land plant systematics and palaeontology, New model systems for early land plant evolution: 22/6/2016.

Invited speaker, Origins of life on land: entanglement of plants, fungi and Earth systems, A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology: Egenis Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, 20/11/2015.

Invited speaker, Before roots, shoots, and leaves: the early fossil record of plants on land, Systematics Association Biennial Conference: 27/8/2015.

Invited speaker, Bridging paleontology and genomics of mycorrhizal fungi, 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza: 3/8/2015.

Invited speaker, Evolution of plant/fungus interactions from paleobotanical and phylogenomic perspectives., Botanical Society of America: 28/7/2015.

Invited speaker, Cryptogamic Ground Covers: Models for Ancient Soil Ecosystems?, SciFri Talk & Social: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 29/5/2015.

Invited speaker, The origins of plants and their organ systems, 10th New Phytologist Workshop: 9/9/2014.

Invited speaker, The early evolution of roots, 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference: 28/8/2014.

Introduction

Summary

I am a palaeobotanist whose scientific research focuses on the early evolution of life on land and its broader impact on key Earth Systems (e.g., Carbon Cycle). Current interests include the development of soil ecosystems, the origin and evolution of plant organs and tissues, and the co-evolution of plants and fungi.

My work is currently partly funded by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council: NE/N002067/1 The Origin of Plants: Genomes, Rocks, and Biogeochemical Cycles (Jan 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2018).

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • PhD, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
  • BSc, Department of Plant Science, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Employment history

    Academic

  • Research Scientist, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, London, 1998 - ongoing
  • Head of Invertebrates and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2015
  • Acting Keeper, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 2011 - 2011
  • Head of Research, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 2009 - 2012
  • Visiting Professor, Oxford University, Plant Sciences, United Kingdom, 2008 - 2011
  • Head of Invertebrates and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Palaeontology, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2006
  • Curator, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Palaeobotany, Sweden, 1993 - 1998
  • Assistant Curator, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Palaeobotany, Sweden, 1991 - 1993
Projects

Grants

Workshop on "Origins and evolution of plants and their interactions with fungi"
Role: Principal investigator
Co-investigator: Strullu-Derrien C
Funding: New Phytologist
Total value £10,000 (to Museum £10,000)
Dates: 2013 - 2014

PLANT developmental biology: discovering the ORIGINS of form
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: FP7 - People
Total value £1,656,098 (to Museum £209,853)
Dates: 2010 - 2014

The Origin of Plants: Genomes, rocks, and biogeochemical cycles.
Role: Principal investigatorSchneider H
Co-investigator: Pressel S
Funding: NERC
Total value £293,354 (to Museum £210,919.17)
Dates: 2016 - 2018

Consultancy

King Abdullah International Gardens
2006 - on going.

The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History
2011 - on going.

World Around Them
2011 - on going.

Lost World Returns: Mysteries of the Dinosaurs
2006 - on going.

Prehistoric: The Definitive Visual Guide
2009 - on going.

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
1999 - on going.

Fieldwork

Iceland
2014 - 2014.

Professional activities

External Positions

Palaeontographical Society Council, Member 2013 - 2016.

Fellowships

Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1999 - on going.

Memberships

Council member, 2014 - 2016.

Member, The Systematics Association, 1999 - on going.

International Organisation of Palaeobotanists.

Botanical Society of America, St. Louis, United States.

Editorships

Associate editor, American Journal of Botany, Botanical Society of America, 2005 - on going.

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor & Francis, 2003 - on going.

Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, Springer, 2000 - 2004.

Events

Conference Attendance

Invited Keynote Address, Oral presentation, Organiser, Poster presentation, Session chair, 9th European Palaeobotany - Palynology Conference, (Conference), 2014 - 2014.

Workshop Attendance

Oral presentation, Organiser, Session chair, Workshop, 10th New Phytologist Workshop: Origins and evolution of plants and their interactions with fungi., (Workshop), 2014 - 2014.

Organisation

Organiser, T2-24: The Origin of Plants: rocks, genomes and geochemistry, (Symposium), 2017 - 2017.

Organising committee, Royal Society Discussion Meeting: The Rhynie Chert – our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited, (Conference), 2017 - 2017.

Publications

Publications

Delaux P-M, Hetherington AJ, Coudert Y, Delwiche C, Dunand C, Gould S, Kenrick P, Li F-W, Philippe H, Rensing SA, Rich M, Strullu-Derrien C, de Vries J (2019) Reconstructing trait evolution in plant evo–devo studies. Current Biology, 29 (21) : R1110 - R1118. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.044

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Goral T, Knoll AH (2019) Testate Amoebae in the 407-Million-Year-Old Rhynie Chert. Current Biology, 29 (3) : 461 - 467.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.009

Morris JL, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Yang Z, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ (2018) Reply to Hedges et al.: Accurate timetrees do indeed require accurate calibrations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (41) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812816115

Strullu‐Derrien C, Selosse M, Kenrick P, Martin FM (2018) The origin and evolution of mycorrhizal symbioses: from palaeomycology to phylogenomics. New Phytologist, 220 (4) : 1012 - 1030. doi: 10.1111/nph.15076

Morris JL, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Yang Z, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ (2018) The timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (10) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719588115

Puttick MN, Morris JL, Williams TA, Cox CJ, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Schneider H, Pisani D, Donoghue PCJ (2018) The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte. Current Biology, 28 (5) : 733 - 745.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.063

Edwards D, Kenrick P, Dolan L (2018) History and contemporary significance of the Rhynie cherts—our earliest preserved terrestrial ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20160489 - 20160489. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0489

Kenrick P (2018) Changing expressions: a hypothesis for the origin of the vascular plant life cycle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20170149 - 20170149. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0149

Kenrick P (2017) How land plant life cycles first evolved. Science, 358 (6370) : 1538 - 1539. doi: 10.1126/science.aan2923

Strullu-Derrien C, Spencer ART, Goral T, Dee J, Honegger R, Kenrick P, Longcore JE, Berbee ML (2018) New insights into the evolutionary history of Fungi from a 407 Ma Blastocladiomycota fossil showing a complex hyphal thallus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1739) : 20160502 - 20160502. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0502

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (2017) Confocal laser scanning microscopy: a powerful method for the study of Rhynie and Windyfield Chert (ca 407 Ma) microorgansims. Edwards D, Dolan L, Kenrick P (Eds). The Rhynie Chert: our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited, 63 3 - 6 3 3

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Longcore JE, Olesen J, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (null) A New Chytridiomycete Fungus Intermixed with Crustacean Resting Eggs in a 407-Million-Year-Old Continental Freshwater Environment. PLOS ONE, 11 (12) : e0167301 - e0167301. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167301

Mitchell RL, Cuadros J, Duckett JG, Pressel S, Mavris C, Sykes D, Najorka J, Edgecombe GD, Kenrick P (2016) Mineral weathering and soil development in the earliest land plant ecosystems. Geology, 44 (12) : 1007 - 1010. doi: 10.1130/g38449.1

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Selosse M-A (2016) Origins of the mycorrhizal symbioses, In: Molecular mycorrhizal symbiosis, Martin F (Eds). Wiley, Blackwell : 3 - 20.

Mitchell RL, Cuadros J, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Mavris C, Sykes D, Najorka J, Edgecombe GD, Kenrick P (2016) LEAVING THEIR MARK: BIOLOGICALLY-INDUCED MINERAL WEATHERING AND SOIL DEVELOPMENT IN ANCIENT LAND-PLANT ECOSYSTEMS. GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs Geological Society of America : doi: 10.1130/abs/2016am-282635

Collinson ME, Adams NF, Manchester SR, Stull GW, Herrera F, Smith SY, Andrew MJ, Kenrick P, Sykes D (2016) X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) of pyrite-permineralized fruits and seeds from the London Clay Formation (Ypresian) conserved in silicone oil: a critical evaluation. Botany 94 (9) : Canadian Science Publishing : 697 - 711. doi: 10.1139/cjb-2016-0078

Strullu-Derrien C, Goral T, Longcore JE, Olesen J, Kenrick P, Edgecombe GD (2016) Fungal interactions in early fossil freshwater environments. 38th New Phytologist Symposium, 257 7 - 25 7 7Programme, abstracts and participants 44 - 44.

Hibbett D, Blanchette R, Kenrick P, Mills B (2016) Climate, decay, and the death of the coal forests. Current Biology, 26 (13) : R563 - R567. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.014

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C, Mitchell R (2016) The early fossil record of land plants and their environment. 38 New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016, 257 7 - 25 7 7

kenrick P (null) New model systems for early land plant evolution (w16-05) Vienna, Austria, 22 - 24 June 2016. EMBO Workshop: New model systems for early land plant evolution, 226 6 - 22 6 6

Chaloner WG, Kenrick P (2015) Did Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition discover fossil Nothofagus in Antarctica?. The Linnean, 31 (2) : 11 - 17.

Kenrick P (2015) Before roots, shoots, and leaves: the early fossil record of plants on land. Systematics Association Biennial (2015), 268 8 - 26 8 8

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien , Mitchell (2015) The early evolution of roots and soils. 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, 38 8 - 3 8 8

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien , Mitchell (2015) The origins of land plant communities. Botany 2015 - Science and Plants for People, 257 7 - 25 7 7

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Rioult JP, Martin F (2015) Combining studies on fossils and genomics to understand mycorrhizal plant relationships. 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 8), 38 8 - 3 8 8

Strullu-Derrien C, Wawrzyniak Z, Goral T, Kenrick P (2015) Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plantAsteroxylon mackieifrom the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 179 (1) : 201 - 213. doi: 10.1111/boj.12307

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2015) Fossil evidence of fungal-plant interactions in early terrestrial environments. Botany 2015, 257 7 - 25 7 7

Selosse M, Strullu‐Derrien C, Martin FM, Kamoun S, Kenrick P (2015) Plants, fungi and oomycetes: a 400‐million year affair that shapes the biosphere. New Phytologist, 206 (2) : 501 - 506. doi: 10.1111/nph.13371

Edwards D, 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 B: Biological Sciences, 370 (1666) : 20140343 - 20140343. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0343

Steart DC, Spencer ART, Garwood RJ, Hilton J, Munt MC, Needham J, Kenrick P (null) X-ray Synchrotron Microtomography of a silicified Jurassic Cheirolepidiaceae (Conifer) cone: histology and morphology ofPararaucaria collinsonaesp. nov.. PeerJ, 2 : e624 - e624. doi: 10.7717/peerj.624

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C (2014) The origin and early evolution of roots.. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 166 (2) : 570 - 580. doi: 10.1104/pp.114.244517

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Tafforeau P, Cochard H, Bonnemain J-L, Le Hérissé A, Lardeux H, Badel E (2014) The earliest wood and its hydraulic properties documented inc. 407-million-year-old fossils using synchrotron microtomography. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (3) : 423 - 437. doi: 10.1111/boj.12175

Strullu‐Derrien C, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Rioult J, Strullu D (2014) Fungal associations in H orneophyton ligneri from the R hynie C hert ( c . 407 million year old) closely resemble those in extant lower land plants: novel insights into ancestral plant–fungus symbioses. New Phytologist, 203 (3) : 964 - 979. doi: 10.1111/nph.12805

Edwards D, Morris JL, Richardson JB, Kenrick P (2014) Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras. New Phytologist, 202 (1) : 50 - 78. doi: 10.1111/nph.12645

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2013) Champignons et plantes: une union très ancienne. 418 : 50 - 53.

Kenrick P (2013) Glossopteris - the legacy of Gondwana, In: The Munich Show - Mineralientage München - 2013, Fründt R (Eds). Wachholtz Verlag : Neumünster / Hamburg. 116 - 117.

Kenrick P (2013) The origin of roots, In: Plant roots: the hidden half, Taylor & Francis, London : 1 - 13.

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Badel E, Cochard H, Tafforeau P (2013) An overview of the hydraulic systems in early land plants. IAWA Journal, 34 (4) : 333 - 351. doi: 10.1163/22941932-00000029

Kenrick P, Wellman CH, Schneider H, Edgecombe GD (2012) A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367 (1588) : 519 - 536. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0271

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P, Rioult JP, Strullu DG (2011) Evidence of parasitic Oomycetes (Peronosporomycetes) infecting the stem cortex of the Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1706) : 675 - 680. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1603

Kenrick P (2011) Timescales and timetrees. New Phytologist, 192 (1) : 3 - 6. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03856.x

BUTLER RJ, BARRETT PM, PENN MG, KENRICK P (null) Testing coevolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Cretaceous dinosaurs and plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 100 (1) : 1 - 15. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01401.x

BUTLER RJ, BARRETT PM, KENRICK P, PENN MG (2009) Diversity patterns amongst herbivorous dinosaurs and plants during the Cretaceous: implications for hypotheses of dinosaur/angiosperm co-evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22 (3) : 446 - 459. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01680.x

Butler RJ, Barrett PM, Kenrick P, Penn MG (2009) Testing co-evolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales: interactions between Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs and cycads. Biological Reviews, 84 (1) : 73 - 89. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00065.x

Ensom P, Kenrick P, Edmonds R, Cripps J, Hayes P (2009) A fossil tree trunk in the Intermarine Member, Durlston Formation, Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 130 : 183 - 187.

KENRICK P (2009) The Stamp of Approval. Waterhouse Times, Spring 2009. 64 : :

Bateman RM, Kenrick P, Rothwell GW (2007) Do eligulate herbaceous lycopsids occur in Carboniferous strata? Hestia eremosa gen. et sp. nov. from the Mississippian of Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 144 (3-4) : 323 - 335. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.08.002

Kenrick P (2007) A palaeobotanist finds answers to the origin of roots in the genes of a living moss. Nature, 448 : 515 - 515.

Kenrick P (2007) Gymnosperm Phylogeny, In: Brief History of the Gymnosperms: classification, biodiversity, phytogeography and ecology, South Africa National Biodiversity Institute, Pret : 18 - 19.

KENRICK P (2007) The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History. The Palaeontology Newsletter. 66 : : 60 - 62.

DeVore ML, Kenrick P, Pigg KB, Ketcham RA (2006) Utility of high resolution x‐ray computed tomography (HRXCT) for paleobotanical studies: an example using London Clay fruits and seeds. American Journal of Botany, 93 (12) : 1848 - 1851. doi: 10.3732/ajb.93.12.1848

Kenrick P, Vinther J (2006) Chaetocladus gracilis n. sp., a non-calcified Dasycladales from the Upper Silurian of Skåne, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 142 (3-4) : 153 - 160. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.023

Kenrick P (2006) Report on a Timeline Strategy for the Botanical Displays in the King Abdullah International Gardens, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. : The Natural History MuseumLondon. 1 - 10.

Kenrick P (2005) Palaeobotany. :

Korall P, Kenrick P (2004) The phylogenetic history of Selaginellaceae based on DNA sequences from the plastid and nucleus: extreme substitution rates and rate heterogeneity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31 (3) : 852 - 864. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.10.014

Forey PL, Fortey RA, Kenrick P, Smith AB (2004) Taxonomy and fossils: a critical appraisal. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 359 (1444) : 639 - 653. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1453

Kenrick P, Davis P, others (2004) Fossil plants.. Natural History Museum :

Kenrick P, Selley RC, Cocks LRM, Plimer IR (2004) Angiosperms, In: null, Elsevier :

Kenrick P, Selley RC, Cocks LRM, Plimer IR (2004) Gymnosperms, In: null, Elsevier :

Hilton J, Geng B, Kenrick P (2003) A Novel Late Devonian (Frasnian) Woody Cladoxylopsid from China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164 (5) : 793 - 805. doi: 10.1086/376815

Kenrick P (2003) Fishing for the first plants. Nature, 425 (6955) : 248 - 249. doi: 10.1038/425248a

Wikström N, Kenrick P, Vogel JC (2002) Schizaeaceae: a phylogenetic approach. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 119 (1-2) : 35 - 50. doi: 10.1016/s0034-6667(01)00128-2

Korall P, Kenrick P (2002) Phylogenetic relationships in Selaginellaceae based on RBCL sequences. American Journal of Botany, 89 (3) : 506 - 517. doi: 10.3732/ajb.89.3.506

Kenrick P (2002) The telome theory, In: null, London; Chapman & Hall; 1998 : 365 - 387.

Schneider H, Kenrick P (2001) An Early Cretaceous root-climbing epiphyte (Lindsaeaceae) and its significance for calibrating the diversification of polypodiaceous ferns. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 115 (1-2) : 33 - 41. doi: 10.1016/s0034-6667(01)00048-3

Wikström N, Kenrick P (2001) Evolution of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopsida): Estimating Divergence Times from rbcL Gene Sequences by Use of Nonparametric Rate Smoothing. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19 (2) : 177 - 186. doi: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0936

Kenrick P (2001) Turning over a new leaf. Nature, 410 (6826) : 309 - 310. doi: 10.1038/35066649

Kenrick P (2001) Embryophyta (Land Plants). eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd :

Kenrick P (2000) The relationships of vascular plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 355 (1398) : 847 - 855. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0619

Kenrick P, al E (2000) Cretaceous plant fossils from the Kohung area, Chonnam, Korea. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea, 16 : 45 - 56.

Kenrick P, Edwards D (2000) The role of Mid-Palaeozoic mesofossils in the detection of early bryophytes-Discussion. ROYAL SOC LONDON 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON SW1Y 5AG, ENGLAND :

Kenrick P, Wellman C, Gray J, Chaloner WG (2000) The microfossil record of early land plants-Discussion. ROYAL SOC LONDON 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON SW1Y 5AG, ENGLAND :

Newton AE, Duckett JG, Read DJ, Kenrick P (2000) Symbiotic fungal associations in’lower’land plants-Discussion. ROYAL SOC LONDON 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON SW1Y 5AG, ENGLAND :

Wikstrom N, Kenrick P (2000) Relationships of Lycopodium and Lycopodiella Based on Combined Plastid rbcL Gene and trnL Intron Sequence Data. Systematic Botany, 25 (3) : 495 - 495. doi: 10.2307/2666692

Wikström N, Kenrick P (2000) Phylogeny of epiphytic Huperzia (Lycopodiaceae): paleotropical and neotropical clades corroborated by rbcL sequences. Nordic Journal of Botany, 20 (2) : 165 - 171. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2000.tb01561.x

You HS, Kenrick P, al E (2000) Palaeodepositional environment of the Cretaceous Hampyeong Basin, southwestern Korea. Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society, 21 : 683 - 694.

Kenrick P, Kvacek Z, Bengtson S (1999) Semblant Land Plants from the Middle Ordovician of the Prague Basin Reinterpreted as Animals. Palaeontology, 42 (6) : 991 - 1002. doi: 10.1111/1475-4983.00106

Kenrick P (1999) The family tree flowers. Nature, 402 (6760) : 358 - 359. doi: 10.1038/46437

Kenrick P (1999) Plants for the Victorian Geological Illustrations, Crystal Palace Park. : The Natural History MuseumLondon. 1 - 24.

Korall P, Kenrick P, Therrien JP (1999) Phylogeny of Selaginellaceae: Evaluation of Generic/Subgeneric Relationships Based on rbcL Gene Sequences. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 160 (3) : 585 - 594. doi: 10.1086/314137

Zhu W-Q, Kenrick P (1999) A Zosterophyllum-like plant from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 105 (1-2) : 111 - 118. doi: 10.1016/s0034-6667(98)00070-0

Kenrick P (1999) Opaque petrifaction techniques, In: Fossil plants and spores: modern techniques, Geological Society, London : 87 - 91.

Wikstr�m N, Kenrick P, Chase M (1999) Epiphytism and terrestrialization in tropicalHuperzia (Lycopodiaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution, 218 (3-4) : 221 - 243. doi: 10.1007/bf01089229

WELLMAN CH, THOMAS RG, EDWARDS D, KENRICK P (1998) The Cosheston Group (Lower Old Red Sandstone) in southwest Wales: age, correlation and palaeobotanical significance. Geological Magazine, 135 (3) : 397 - 412. doi: 10.1017/s0016756898008723

Bateman RM, Crane PR, DiMichele WA, Kenrick PR, Rowe NP, Speck T, Stein WE (1998) EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 29 (1) : 263 - 292. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.29.1.263

Kelber KP, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert JHA, Nakagawa T, Garfi G, Reille M, Verlaque R, Salzmann U, Waller M, Kenrick P, Li CS, others (1998) Book Review Atlas de polen de plantas útiles y cultivadas de la Amazonia Colombiana. Pollen atlas of useful and cultivated plants in the Colombian Amazon region, by LF Herrera and LE Urrego—H. Hooghiemstra.......... 123. :

Kenrick P, Li C-S (1998) An early, non-calcified, dasycladalean alga from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 100 : 73 - 88.

Crane PR, Kenrick P (1997) Diverted development of reproductive organs: a source of morphological innovation in land plants. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 206 : 161 - 174.

Kenrick P, Crane PR (1997) The origin and early diversification of land plants: a cladistic study. Smithsonian Institution Press : Washington. 441.

Kenrick P, Crane PR (1997) The origin and early evolution of plants on land. Nature, 389 (6646) : 33 - 39. doi: 10.1038/37918

Wikström N, Kenrick P (1997) Phylogeny of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopsida) and the relationships of Phylloglossum drummondii Kunze based on rbcL sequences. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 862 - 871.

Crane PR, Kenrick P (1996) Problems in cladistic classification: higher-level relationships in land plants. Aliso, 15 : 87 - 104.

Kenrick P, Crane P (1996) Embryophytes. Land Plants. 1 : Version :

Kenrick P, Friis EM (1995) Paleobotany of land plants, In: Progress in botany, Springer Berlin Heidelberg : 372 - 395.

KENRICK P (1994) Alternation of generations in land plants: new phylogenetic and palaeobotanical evidence. Biological Reviews, 69 : 293 - 330.

Kenrick P (1991) The structure of the water-conducting cells in the enigmatic early land plants Stockmansella langii Fairon-Demaret, Huvenia kleui Hass et Remy and Sciadophyton sp. Remy et al. 1980. Argumenta Palaeobotanica, 8 : 179 - 191.

Kenrick P, Crane PR (1991) Water-conducting cells in early fossil land plants: implications for the early evolution of tracheophytes. Botanical Gazette, 335 - 356.

Kenrick P, Edwards D, Dales RC (1991) Novel ultrastructure in water-conducting cells of the Lower Devonian plant Sennicaulis hippocrepiformis. Palaeontology, 34 : 751 - 766.

KENRICK P, FAIRON-DEMARET M (1991) Archaeopteris roemeriana (Göppert) sensu Stockmans, 1948 from the Upper Famennian of Belgium: anatomy and leaf polymorphism. Bulletin-Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la terre, 61 : 179 - 195.

EDWARDS D, KENRICK P, CARLUCCIO LM (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) : 293 - 318. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1989.tb01723.x

Kenrick P (1988) Studies on Lower Devonian plants from South Wales. PhD Thesis.

KENRICK P, 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) : 97 - 115. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb01698.x

KENRICK P, 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) : 95 - 123. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02456.x

Edwards D, Rose V, Axe LP, 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) : 241 - 251. doi: 10.1016/0034-6667(86)90060-6

EDWARDS D, KENRICK P (1986) A new zosterophyll from the Lower Devonian of Wales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 92 (3) : 269 - 283. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1986.tb01432.x

Mitchell RL, Strullu‐Derrien C, Sykes D, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Kenrick P (2021) Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils. Geobiology, 19 (3) : 292 - 306. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12431

Strullu-Derrien C, kenrick P, Goral T (null) The importance of microenvironment in determining the roles of early diverging Fungi in early terrestrial ecosystems. Palaeontological Association Annual meeting, 1912 12 - 19 12 12

Strullu-Derrien C, Kenrick P (2018) Thomas Norwood Taylor (1938–2016). Mycologia, 110 (2) : 448 - 452. doi: 10.1080/00275514.2018.1462080

Strullu‐Derrien C, Le Hérissé A, Goral T, Spencer ART, Kenrick P (2021) The overlooked aquatic green algal component of early terrestrial environments: Triskelia scotlandica gen. et sp. nov. from the Rhynie cherts. Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (2) : 709 - 719. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1303

Contributed Publications

Kenrick P, Strullu-Derrien C, Mitchell R (2016) The early fossil record of land plants and their environment. 38 New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016, 257 7 - 25 7 7

kenrick P (null) New model systems for early land plant evolution (w16-05) Vienna, Austria, 22 - 24 June 2016. EMBO Workshop: New model systems for early land plant evolution, 226 6 - 22 6 6

Teaching and students

Courses taught

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2019.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution

11/2018.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2018 - 3/2018.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution

11/2016.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics
10/2016 - 10/2017.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Module 10: Palaeobiology
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
2/2016 - 3/2016.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Module 2: Introduction to the Tree of Life
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
10/2015.

Postgraduate: London DTP Evolution Training Week: Earth & Evolution
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
10/2015.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Module 10 Palaeobiology
The Natural History Museum, London
Imperial College, London
3/2015.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module


3/2015.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Module 2 Introduction to the Tree of Life
The Natural History Museum, London
Imperial College, London
10/2014.

Third year: Palaeobiology: Fossil Plants
Imperial College, London
3/2014.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeontology & Stratigraphy Module
Imperial College, London
The Natural History Museum, London
3/2014.

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Systematics: Introduction to the Tree of Life Module
Imperial College, London
10/2013.

MSc: Terrestrial Palaeoecology MSc module: RHUL GL4810
University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
11/2009 - 2/2014.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Long E
Co supervisor(s): Edgecombe GD
Ecology and evolution of the earliest terrestrial animals

Funding: NERC DTP
1/10/2020 - 29/9/2023.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Ball A
Co supervisor(s): Wellman C
The Late Silurian - Early Devonian Adaptive Radiation ('Explosion') of Vascular Plants
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC ACCE DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Master's Lead supervisor to Naware D
Co supervisor(s): Kenrick P
Genome size evolution in early land plants
, London, UK
30/9/2016 - 29/9/2017.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Ewin T
Funding: Natural Environment Research Council

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Wikström N
Evolution of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopsida) - Relations and Patterns of Diversification

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Korall P
Phylogeny of Selaginellaceae

Examiner

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)
19/12/2016

External examiner, Doctoral degree
5/11/2014

University examiner, Doctoral degree
23/10/2013

External examiner, Masters degree
4/4/2012

External examiner, Masters degree
30/6/2011

Impact and outreach

Awards

Bicentennial Medal, 1999.

Henry Allan Gleason Award, 1998.

Michael A. Cichan Award, 1991.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, The Origin of Plants: rocks, genomes and geochemistry, International Botanical Congress: 24/7/2017.

Invited speaker, The early evolution of land plants and their life cycles, The Rhynie Chert – our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited: 6/3/2017.

Invited speaker, The early fossil record of land plants and their environments, 38th New Phytologist Symposium: 26/7/2016.

Invited speaker, Early land plant systematics and palaeontology, New model systems for early land plant evolution: 22/6/2016.

Invited speaker, Origins of life on land: entanglement of plants, fungi and Earth systems, A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology: Egenis Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, 20/11/2015.

Invited speaker, Before roots, shoots, and leaves: the early fossil record of plants on land, Systematics Association Biennial Conference: 27/8/2015.

Invited speaker, Bridging paleontology and genomics of mycorrhizal fungi, 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza: 3/8/2015.

Invited speaker, Evolution of plant/fungus interactions from paleobotanical and phylogenomic perspectives., Botanical Society of America: 28/7/2015.

Invited speaker, Cryptogamic Ground Covers: Models for Ancient Soil Ecosystems?, SciFri Talk & Social: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 29/5/2015.

Invited speaker, The origins of plants and their organ systems, 10th New Phytologist Workshop: 9/9/2014.

Invited speaker, The early evolution of roots, 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference: 28/8/2014.