Melanie Link-Perez, Ph.D. Student
This photograph shows me doing what I most love: looking at plants in their natural environments. Here, I am looking at the leatherfern, Acrostichum danaeifolium, on North Andros Island in the Bahamas.
Currently, I am a graduate student in the Botany Department of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. My interests are the systematics and evolution of the seed-free vascular plants, with an emphasis on the leptosporangiate ferns. For my dissertation research, I am conducting a morphological and molecular phylogenetic study of the tropical cheilanthoid fern genus Adiantopsis Fée. My goal is to complete a monograph/revision of the genus and to resolve its relationships to old world Cheilanthes.
Contact Information
Melanie A. Link-Perez
Department of Botany
Miami University
316 Pearson Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-4203
linkpema@muohio.edu
My Dissertation Advisor:
R. James Hickey, Ph.D.
