Staff profiles
Liz KennedyPaleobotanist
Qualifications
- BSc, Geology
- PhD, Paleoclimatology & Paleobotany
- MSc, Geology
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Paleoclimatology
- Geology: Sedimentology
- Paleontology: Stratigraphy
- Geology: Field studies
- Geology: Quaternary research
- Geology: Paleontology
- Geology: Paleoenvironmental Studies
- Paleontology: paleobotany
- Paleontology: Biodiversity
- Paleontology: Palynology
Major Publications
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- A 100 million year composite pollen record from New Zealand shows maximum angiosperm abundance delayed until Eocene, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 566: paper 110207. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110207.
- The presence of moisture deficits in Miocene New Zealand, Global and Planetary Change 172: p. 268-277. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.10.013.
- Geology and palaeontology of the Hindon Maar Complex: a Miocene terrestrial fossil Lagerstätte in southern New Zealand, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 500: p. 52-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.03.022.
- Amber inclusions from New Zealand, Gondwana Research 56: p. 135-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.12.003.
- High temperatures in the terrestrial mid-latitudes during the early Palaeogene, Nature geoscience 11: p. 766-771. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0199-0.
- Palynology of the late Oligoceneearly Miocene Newvale Mine, Gore Lignite Measures, Southland, New Zealand, Palaeontographica. Abteilung B, Palaeophytologie, Palaeobotany, Palaeophytology 298(1-3): p. 23-91. DOI: 10.1127/palb/2018/0060.
- Early Eocene Ripogonaceae leaf macrofossils from New Zealand, Australian systematic botany 31(1): p. 8-15. DOI: 10.1071/SB17016.
- Changes in leaf physiognomy of New Zealand woody assemblages in response to Neogene environmental cooling, Journal of biogeography 44(5): p. 1160-1171. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12980.
- Terrestrial climate evolution in the Southwest Pacific over the past 30 million years, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 459: p. 136-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.006.
- Gleichenia-like Korallipteris alineae sp. nov. macrofossils (Polypodiophyta) from the Miocene Landslip Hill silcrete, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Botany 55(3): p. 258-275. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2017.1317278.
- Contrasting palaeoenvironments of the mid/late Miocene Dunedin Volcano, southern New Zealand : climate or topography?, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 441(4): p. 696-703. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.029.
- The early Miocene paleolake Manuherikia : vegetation heterogeneity and warm-temperate to subtropical climate in southern New Zealand, Journal of paleolimnology 53(4): p. 349-365. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-015-9827-5.
- Leaf form-climate relationships on the global stage : an ensemble of characters, Global Ecology and Biogeography 24(10): p. 1113-1125. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12334.
- An update of monocot macrofossil data from New Zealand and Australia, Botanical journal of the Linnean Society 178(3): p. 394-420. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12284.
- The monocot fossil pollen record of New Zealand and its implications for palaeoclimates and environments, Botanical journal of the Linnean Society 178(3): p. 421-440. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12283.
- Deriving temperature estimates from Southern Hemisphere leaves, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 412: p. 80-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.015.
- Palynology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand : diversity following destruction, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 204: p. 27-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.02.003.
- A distinctive diporate pollen grain (Apocynaceae?) from the Late Oligocene Early Miocene of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 57(2): p. 264-268. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2014.902855.
- Early Paleogene evolution of terrestrial climate in the SW Pacific, Southern New Zealand, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 14(12): p. 5413-5429. DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004935.
- Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates for Early Miocene southern New Zealand : evidence from Foulden Maar, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 378: p. 36-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.019.
- An outcrop-based study of the economically significant Late Cretaceous Rakopi Formation, northwest Nelson, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51(4): p. 295-315.
- An integrated terrestrial paleoenvironmental record from the Mid-Pleistocene transition, eastern North Island, New Zealand, Quaternary International 178(1): p. 146-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.011.
- A fossil southern grayling, genus Prototroctes, from the Pleistocene of north-eastern New Zealand (Teleostei : Retropinnidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(1): p. 27-36.
- The sensitivity of CLAMP to taphonomic loss of foliar physiognomic characters, Palaios 20(5): p. 429-438.
- Foliar physiognomic record of climatic conditions during dormancy : climate leaf analysis multivariate program (CLAMP) and the cold month mean temperature, The journal of geology 112(6): p. 685-702.
- Discovery of a Cretaceous angiosperm reproductive structure from New Zealand : short communication, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46(4): p. 519-522.
- Late Cretaceous and Paleocene terrestrial climates of New Zealand : leaf fossil evidence from South Island assemblages, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46(2): p. 295-306. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515010.
- Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates from Late Cretaceous and Paleocene leaf floras in the northwest of the South Island, New Zealand, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184(3-4): p. 321-345.