Krieger, Jonathan
Job Title
Project Coordinator, Global Plants Initiative
Department
Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives
Section
Biodiversity Information & Economic Botany
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
2010Foreign Language(s):
FrenchQualifications & Appointments
Ph.D, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2007.
BSc, Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.
Role
Project Coordinator, Global Plants Initiative.
Leadership and management of the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) type specimen digitization programme of the Kew herbarium. The role includes responsibility for ensuring the productivity and quality of data output by the GPI digitization team, support and training for partner organisations around the world, and liaison with the project funders and media partners (JSTOR Plant Science). The digitization of Kew’s herbarium specimen collections directly supports Kew’s Breathing Planet Programme key strategy 1 (BPP1) ‘Accelerating discovery and global access to plant and fungal diversity information’.
Selected Recent Publications
Figueirido, B., MacLeod, N. & Krieger, J. (2011) .Constraint and adaptation in the evolution of carnivoran skull shape. Paleobiology 37(3): 490-518.
Piazza, P., Bailey, C.D., Cartolano, M., Krieger, J., Cao, J., Ossowski, S., Schneeberger, K., He, F., de Meaux, J., Hall, N., MacLeod, N., Filatov, D., Hay, A. & Tsiantis, M. (2010). Arabidopsis thaliana leaf form evolved via loss of KNOX expression in leaves in association with a selective sweep. Current Biology 20(24): 2223-2228.
Krieger, J. (2010). Controlling for curvature in the quantification of leaf form. In: Elewa, A.M.T. (ed) Morphometrics for non-morphometricians. Lecture Notes In Earth Sciences. Springer. 27-72.
Selected Earlier Publications
Schutz, H., Polly, P.D., Guralnick, R. & Krieger, J. (2009). Differential sexual size dimorphism: size and shape in the cranium and pelvis of grey foxes (Urocyon). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 339-353.
Kennedy, W. J., Reyment, R.A., MacLeod, N. & J. Krieger, J. (2009). Species discrimination in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) ammonite genus Knemiceras VON BUCH, 1848: Palaeontographica Abteilung A-Palaozoologie-Stratigraphie 290(1-3): 1-63.
Roberts, A., Smith, D., Guralnick, R., Cushing, P. & Krieger, J. (2008). Quantitative prediction of fossil biodiversity: Eocene spiders from Florissant, Colorado. In Meyer and Smith (eds) Palaeontology of the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado. GSA Special Volume 435: 105-116.
Flemons, P., Guralnick, R., Krieger, J. & Ranipeta, A. (2007) A web-based GIS tool for exploring the world's biodiversity: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility Mapping and Analysis Portal Application (GBIF-MAPA). Ecological Informatics 2(1): 49-60.
Krieger, J., Guralnick, R. & Smith, D. (2007). Generating empirically determined continuous measures of leaf shape for paleoclimate reconstruction. PALAIOS 22(2): 212-219.
