Karl Joseph Niklas

Niklas is a plant biophysics and evolution researcher specializing in "biomechanics, complexity, and multicellularity." He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles and five books: Plant Biomechanics (1992), Plant Allometry (1994), The Evolutionary Biology of Plants (1997), Plant Physics co-authored with Hanns-Christof Spatz (2012), and Plant Evolution (2016). He holds fellowships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Study at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• The Evolutionary Biology of Plants (1997) Book
• Plant Physics (2012) Book
• Plant Biomechanics: An Engineering Approach to Plant Form and Function (1992) Book
• Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process (1994) Book
• Plant Evolution: An Introduction to the History of Life (2016) Book