Dr. James C. Lendemer

Curator of Botany
518-473-6511

Ph.D., Biology: Plant Science, 2012, CUNY Graduate Center New York, NY 
M.Phil., Biology, 2010, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 
B.A., Biology, 2006, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 

My research focuses on the botanical diversity of land-based ecosystems in eastern North America. This emphasizes understanding not only biological diversity, but the relationships among botanical organisms and their environments through extensive study in nature and in museum collections. In particular, I use lichens, which are sensitive to disturbance and pollution, as a way to demonstrate how ecosystems change over time and how these changes may result in increased need for conservation. As the Curator of Botany, I oversee the collection of algae, bryophytes, lichens and plants. The NYSM collection is an essential resource that documents botanical diversity in New York and beyond. The growth, maintenance, and digitization of this collection is a core part of my research that supports a much broader community of naturalists and educators.

Publications

2015

E. Landing, S. Westrop 2015, Late Cambrian (middle Furongian) Shallow-Marine Dysoxic Mudstone with Calcrete and Brachiopod–Olenid–Lotagnostus Faunas in Avalonian Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Geological Magazine 152, 973-992. 10.1017/S001675681400079X
E. Landing, VanAller Hernick, F. Mannolini, D. Potvin-Leduc, R. Cloutier 2015, Middle Devonian (Givetian) Sharks from Cairo, New York (USA): Evidence of Early Cosmopolitanism, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60, 183-200. 10.4202/app.2012.0101

2014

Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J., Waters, C., Landing, E., 2014. Is the Fossil Record of Complex Animal Behaviour a Stratigraphical Analogue for the Anthropocene?, in: Waters, N., Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Ellis, M., Snelling, A. (Eds.), A Stratigraphical Basis for the Anthropocene. Geological Society of London, London, pp. 143-148.
E. Landing, S. Westrop, J. Adrain, T. Karin 2014, Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Stairsian Stage (upper Tremadocian) of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, Western United States, Memoirs of the Associaiton of Australasian Palaeontologists 45, 167–214.
E. Landing, G. Retallack 2014, Affinities and Architecture of Devonian Trunks of Prototaxites loganii, Mycologia , 1143-1158. 10.3852/13-390
E. Landing, G.J. Retallack 2014, Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii, Mycologia 106, 1143-1158. 10.3852/13-390
E. Landing, G.J. Retallack 2014, Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks Prototaxites loganii. Supplement., Mycology 106, . doi:10.3852/13-390

2013

G. Geyer, E. Landing, M. Brasier, S. Bowring 2013, Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: Context, Correlation, and Chronostratigraphy—Overcoming Deficiencies of the First Appearance Datum (FAD) Concept, Earth-Science Reviews 123, 133-172. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.03.008
E. Landing, M. Williams, M. Mohibullah 2013, First Middle Ordovician Ostracods from Western Avalonia: Paleogeographical and Paleoenvironmental Significance, Journal of Paleontology 87, 269-276. 10.1666/12-065R1.1
E. Landing, S. Westrop, S. Bowring 2013, Reconstructing the Avalonia Palaeocontinent in the Cambrian: A 519 Ma Caliche in South Wales and Transcontinental Middle Terreneuvian Sandstones, Geology Magazine 150, 1022-1046. 10.1017/S0016756813000228