Vicki Funk

Vicki Funk
Born Victoria Ann Funk
1947
Alma mater B. S., Murray State University, Biology and History, 1969, M.S., Murray State University, Biology, 1975; PhD, Ohio State University, 1980
Theses
  • A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY.
  • The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv. (Asteraceae)
Known for Botanist and curator,

Vicki Funk (born 1947) is a Senior Research Botanist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She is known for her work on thistles and sunflowers, and for her work collecting Compositae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes.[1][2][3]

Funk's research includes detailing evolutionary relationships and history using plant DNA.[4] Funk co-discovered the critically endangered Bidens Meyeri in Rapa Iti, Tahiti. Funk's work shows that this Bidens species may represent the end of migration of the plant from North American to Tahiti.[5]

Since 1988, she has served as Head of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield program (BDG). She is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and Duke University.[3]

Works

The standard author abbreviation V.A.Funk is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Botany Staff - Vicki Funk". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory. 2015. Retrieved Mar 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Thistles and Sunflowers". The Science Show. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 May 2000. Retrieved 27 Mar 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Funk, Victoria Ann (Vicki) (1947-) on". Global Plants on JSTOR. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
  4. ↑ Weaver, Janelle. "Daisy family shows its roots". Nature.com. Macmillan Publishers Limited. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Cohn, Tony (21 January 2015). "New South Pacific cliff flower is critically endangered". SmithsonianScience.org. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Author Query for 'V.A.Funk'". International Plant Names Index.

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