Colin Prentice
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Born | Iain Colin Prentice 1952 (age 71–72) |
Education | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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Thesis | Studies on moden pollen spectra |
Website | www |
(Iain) Colin Prentice FRS (born 1952) [2] 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.[1][3][4]
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[3] 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.[2] He led the research programme quantifying and understanding the earth system for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[2] 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).[2] As of 2018[update] 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.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Colin Prentice publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c d e 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:
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- ^ a b "Home - Professor Iain Colin Prentice". www.imperial.ac.uk.
- ^ Foley, J. A. (2005). "Global Consequences of Land Use". Science. 309 (5734): 570–574. doi:10.1126/science.1111772. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ Prentice, Iain Colin (1977). Studies on modern pollen spectra. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Cambridge University. OCLC 500543790. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469526.
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