Karl J. Niklas

Karl Joseph Niklas (born 1948) is an American botanist and paleobotanist who is a Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the field of Plant Biology at the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. His work focuses on plant biomechanics, allometry and functional morphology. His research in plant evolutionary biology has included studies on early land plant diversification patterns and morphospaces. Provided by Wikipedia