Dr Eve Lucas is a botanical researcher in the Kew’s Accelerated Taxonomy team. Her research team is focused on the taxonomy, systematics, evolutionary biology and conservation of Myrtaceae. She is also interested in tropical rainforest evolution, in particular in the Atlantic and Amazon Forests of South America and the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
Research in the team is based on molecular and morphological systematics, biogeographical analysis, preparation of monographs, regional revisions and global checklists. The research forms part of an integrated approach to flowering plant systematics at Kew that also includes studies on phenology, anatomy and reproductive biology. The team uses available computing tools e.g. appropriate packages of R, to address questions related to the evolution of traits within flowering plant lineages, relative to the distribution ranges of those lineages in space and over time.
