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

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

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

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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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