Colin Prentice
(Iain) Colin Prentice FRS (born 1952)[1][3] holds the AXA chair in biosphere and climate impacts at Imperial College London and an honorary chair in ecology and evolution at Macquarie University in Australia.[2][4]
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Born | Iain Colin Prentice June 25, 1952[1] |
Education | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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Thesis | Studies on modern pollen spectra |
Website | imperial |
Education
Prentice was educated at the University of Cambridge where he studied the natural sciences tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973[4] followed by a PhD in botany in 1977 for studies on pollen spectra.[5]
Career and research
Prentice has held academic and research leadership appointments in several countries, including the chair of plant ecology at Lund University and a founding directorship of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.[3] He led the research programme quantifying and understanding the earth system for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[3] He developed the standard model for pollen source area, popularized now widely used techniques to analyse species composition along environmental gradients, and led the international development of successive generations of large-scale ecosystem models – from equilibrium biogeography (BIOME) to coupled biogeochemistry and vegetation dynamics (LPJ).[3] As of 2018 his research applies eco-evolutionary optimality concepts to develop and test new quantitative theory for plant and ecosystem function and land-atmosphere exchanges of energy, water and carbon dioxide, with the goal of more robust and reliable numerical modelling of land processes in the earth system science.[3][6][7]
References
- Colin Prentice at Library of Congress Authorities
- Colin Prentice publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Anon (2018). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- Anon (2019). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24.
- Prentice, Iain Colin (1977). Studies on modern pollen spectra. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500543790. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469526.
- Foley, J. A. (2005). "Global Consequences of Land Use". Science. 309 (5734): 570–574. doi:10.1126/science.1111772. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16040698.
- Kattge, J.; Diaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Bönisch, G.; Garnier, E.; Westobys, M.; Reich, P.B.; Wrights, I.J.; Cornelissen, C.; Violle, C.; Harisson, S.P.; et al. (2011). "TRY - a global database of plant traits". Global Change Biology. 17 (9): 2905–2935. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x. OCLC 1018986898.
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