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Kelly Anne Shepherd

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Kelly Anne Shepherd
Born1970 Edit this on Wikidata
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Academic career
FieldsBotany
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany)K.A.Sheph.

Kelly Anne Shepherd (born 1970) is an Australian botanist, who has published some 91 names.[1]

The standard author abbreviation K.A.Sheph. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Career

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Shepherd earned a B.Sc. (Hon) in 1992 with a thesis entitled "Faecal Analysis of Mammalian Herbivores in the Perup Forest, Western Australia." and a Ph.D. ("Systematic Analysis of the Australian Salicornioideae (Chenopodiaceae)" in 2005, both from the University of Western Australia.[3][4]

From 2004 to 2005 she was a research scientist with the University of Western Australia and Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. In 2006 she was a post doctoral researcher at the UK Millennium Seed Bank, working on seed dormancy on Australian species with undifferentiated species. From 2006 to 2009, she was a research scientist with the Western Australian Herbarium, where, since September 2009, she has been working as a senior research scientist.[3]

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