# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-j-niklas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:35:18.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-j-niklas"
name: "Karl J. Niklas"
slug: "karl-j-niklas"
description: "Karl Joseph Niklas is an American botanist and paleobotanist who is a Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the field of Plant Biology at the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. His work focuses on plant biomechanics, allometry and functional morphology. His research in plant evolutionary biology has included studies on early land plant diversification patterns and morphospaces."
tagline: "American botanist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Karl Joseph Niklas"
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    title: "كارل جوزيف نيكلاس"
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    title: "كارل جوزيف نيكلاس"
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    title: "Karl J. Niklas"
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    title: "Karl J. Niklas"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Joseph_Niklas"
    title: "Karl Joseph Niklas"
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    title: "Карл Џ. Никлас"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump