 Assistant Professor
Paleoecology, Paleobotany
Interests: Evolution of plants and terrestrial ecosystems; analysis of taxonomic, morphological, and ecological diversification; evolution of plant reproductive strategies, seed morphology, and seed size.
Publications:
Sims, H.J. 2012. The evolutionary diversification of seed size: using the past to understand the present. Evolution 66.
Sims, H.J. 2010. Paleolatitudinal gradients in seed size during the Cretaceous-Tertiary radiation of angiosperms. International Journal of Plant Sciences 171:216-220.
Sims, H.J. & J.A. Cassara. 2009. The taphonomic fidelity of seed size in fossil assemblages: a live-dead case study. Palaios 24:387-393.
Gastaldo, R.A., R. Adendorff, M. Bamford, C. Labandeira, J. Neveling, and H. Sims. 2005. Taphonomic trends of macrofloral assemblages across the Permian-Triassic boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa. Palaios 20:479-497.
McConway, K.J. and H.J. Sims. 2004. A likelihood-based method for testing for non-stochastic variation of diversification rates in phylogenies. Evolution 58:12-23.
Sims, H.J. and K.J. McConway. 2003. Non-stochastic variation of species-level diversification rates within angiosperms. Evoution 57:460-479.
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