Kelly Kindscher
Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey
Professor, Environmental Studies Program
Courtesy Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
kindscher@ku.edu
Primary office:
785-864-1529
135A Takeru Higuchi Hall
Academic degrees
Ph.D., Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, 1991 (Dissertation: "Prairie Plant Guilds: An Ordination of Prairie Plant Species Based on Ecological and Morphological Traits")
M.S., Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, 1988 (Thesis: "Medicinal Prairie Plants")
B.A., Environmental Studies, University of Kansas, 1979 (with honors and distinction)
Awards
Steeples Service to Kansans Award, 2013 (KU)
Program affiliations
Kansas Natural Heritage Inventory
Native Medicinal Plant Research Program
Areas of specialization
Plant community ecology and botany
Research interests
- Prairie and montane meadow plant communities
- Wetland and prairie restoration
- Conservation of Midwest/Great Plains ecosystems
- Ethnobotany
Recent publications
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Kindscher, K., A. Arvidson. 2019. Noxious and invasive weeds as medicine: An alternative for the pesticide treadmill and a way to reduce use of At-Risk Medicinal Plants. Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation. 2019;2019 (Spring):14–16.
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K. Kindscher, L.M. Martin, and Q. Long. The Sustainable Harvest of Wild Populations of Oshá (Ligusticum porteri) in Southern Colorado for the Herbal Products Trade. Economic Botany, published online May 14 2019.
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Kindscher, K., L.M. Martin, Q. Long. The sustainable harvest of wild populations of Oshá (Ligusticum porteri) in southern Colorado for the herbal products trade. Economic Botany. 2019;73(3):341–356. doi:10.1007/s12231-019-09456-1.
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Ticktin, T., and K. Kindscher, S. Souther, P. Weisberg, J. Chamberlain, S. Hummel, C. Mitchell and S. Sanders. 2018. Ecological and Human Dimensions of Nontimber Forest Product Harvest, pages 60-81 in J. L. Chamberlin, M. R. Emery, and T. Patel-Weynand. Assessment of nontimber forest products in the United States under changing conditions. U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station General Technical Report SRS-232.
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Comer, P. J., J.C. Hak, K. Kindscher, E. Muldavin, and J. Singhurst. 2018. Continent-scale landscape conservation design for temperate grasslands of the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert. Natural Areas Journal, 38(2), 196-211.
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Ticktin, T. and K. Kindscher, S. Souther, P. Weisberg, J. Chamberlain, S. Hummel, C. Mitchell and S. Sanders. 2018. Ecological and Human Dimensions of Nontimber Forest Product Harvest, pages 60-81 in J. L. Chamberlin, M. R. Emery, and T Patel-Weynand. Assessment of Nontimber Forest Products in the United States Under Changing Conditions. US Forest Service, Southern Research Station General Technical Report SRS-232.
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Upton, R (Editor), K. Kindscher (Associate Editor). 2018. Oshá Root (Ligusticum porteri J.M. Coulter & Rose and related species. American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. 83 pages.
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Kindscher, K., Martin, L., Corbett, S., & Lafond, D. 2018. Nutritional Properties of Native Plants and Traditional Foods from the Central United States. Ethnobiology Letters, 9(2), 214-227.
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Kindscher, K., L. Martin, S. Corbett, and D. Lafond. 2018. Nutritional properties of native plants and traditional foods from the central United States. Ethnobiology Letters, 9(2), 214-227.
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Upton, R., (Editor), K. Kindscher (Associate Editor). 2018. Oshá Root (Ligusticum porteri) J.M. Coulter & Rose and related species. American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. 83 pages.
