Joyce Lambert
Appearance
Joyce Mildred Lambert | |
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Born | Herne Hill, London, England | 23 June 1916
Died | 4 May 2005 Colney, Norfolk | (aged 88)
Nationality | British |
Education | Norwich High School for Girls |
Alma mater | University College of Wales, Aberystwyth |
Known for | The Making of the Broads |
Scientific career | |
Fields | botany, ecology, stratigraphy |
Institutions | Cambridge University Southampton University |
Joyce Mildred Lambert (23 June 1916 – 4 May 2005) was a British botanist and ecologist.[1] She confirmed by stratigraphic sampling the theory of Clifford Smith that the Norfolk Broads were of man-made origin, the result of extensive peat-digging, and not a natural formation as the geomorphologist Joseph Newell Jennings had recently concluded.[1][2][3] She collaborated with Jennings and Smith on a further study of the Broads; their results were published in 1960 as The Making of the Broads: a reconsideration of their origin in the light of new evidence.[1]
Publications
- J.N. Jennings, J.M. Lambert (1951). Alluvial stratigraphy and vegetational succession in the region of the Bure valley broads. Journal of Ecology 39 (1): 116–148. doi:10.2307/2256630.
- J.M. Lambert, J.N. Jennings, C.T. Smith, Charles Green, J.N. Hutchinson (1960). The Making of the Broads: a reconsideration of their origin in the light of new evidence. London: Royal Geographical Society; J. Murray.
References
- ^ a b c Stefan Buczacki (January 2010). Lambert, Joyce Mildred (1916–2005). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95816. Accessed April 2015. (subscription required).
- ^ George Martin (28 May 2005). Joyce Lambert (obituary)]. The Guardian. Accessed April 2015.
- ^ Brad Pillans, Donald Walker (September 2011). Jennings, Joseph Newell (1916–1984). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101122. Accessed April 2015. (subscription required).