Selected Publications
C. Kevin Boyce. 2008. How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage. Paleobiology 34(2):179-194 abstract | full text | article in pdf format
C. Kevin Boyce, Carol L. Hotton, Marilyn L. Fogel, George D. Cody, Robert M. Hazen, Andrew H. Knoll, and Francis M. Hueber. 2007. Devonian landscape heterogeneity recorded by a giant fungus. Geology 35(5): 399-402 abstract | full text | article in pdf format
C. Kevin Boyce. 2007. Mechanisms of laminar growth in morphologically convergent leaves and flower petals. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(8): 1151-1156 abstract | full text | article in pdf format
Maciej A. Zwieniecki, Howard A. Stone, Andrea Leigh, C. Kevin Boyce, and N. Michele Holbrook. 2006. Hydraulic design of pine needles: one-dimensional optimization for single-vein leaves. Plant Cell and Environment 29 (5): 803-809 MAY abstract | full text | article in pdf format
C. Kevin Boyce. 2005. Patterns of segregation
and convergence in the evolution of fern and seed plant leaf morphologies. Paleobiology 31(1):
117-140. abstract | full
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C. Kevin Boyce, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, George D. Cody, Chris Jacobsen,
Susan Wirick, Andrew H. Knoll, N. Michele Holbrook. 2004. Evolution
of xylem lignification and hydrogel transport regulation. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101(50): 17555-17558. abstract | full
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Maciej A. Zwieniecki,
C. Kevin Boyce, and N. Michele Holbrook. 2004. Functional design
space of single veined leaves: role of tissue hydraulic properties
in constraining leaf size and shape. Annals of Botany 94(4):
507-513. abstract | full
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Maciej A. Zwieniecki, C. Kevin Boyce,
and N. Michele Holbrook. 2004. Hydraulic limitations imposed by
crown placement determine
final size and shape
of Quercus rubra L. leaves. Plant, Cell & Environment 27(3):
357-365. abstract | full
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C. Kevin Boyce, George D. Cody, Marilyn
L. Fogel, Robert M. Hazen, Conel M. O’D.
Alexander, and Andrew H. Knoll. 2003. Chemical evidence for cell
wall lignification and the evolution of tracheids in Early Devonian
plants.
International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(5): 691-702.
abstract | full
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Maciej A. Zweiniecki, P. J. Melcher,
C. Kevin Boyce, L. Sack, and N. Michele Holbrook. 2002. Hydraulic
architecture of leaf
venation in Laurus
nobilis L. Plant, Cell & Environment 25(11): 1445-1450.
abstract | full
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C. Kevin Boyce, George D. Cody, Michael
Feser, Chris Jacobsen, Andrew H. Knoll, Susan Wirick. 2002. Organic
chemical differentiation within fossil plant cell walls detected
with X-ray
spectromicroscopy. Geology 30(11): 1039-1042. abstract | full
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available from this link)
C. Kevin Boyce, and Andrew H. Knoll.
2002. Evolution of developmental potential and the multiple independent
origins of leaves in Paleozoic vascular plants. Paleobiology 28(1):
70-100. abstract | full
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C. Kevin Boyce, Andrew H. Knoll, and
Robert M. Hazen. 2001. Nondestructive, in situ, cellular-scale
mapping of elemental abundances including
organic carbon in permineralized fossils. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA 98(11): 5970-5974. abstract | full
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