Colin Prentice
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 Colin Prentice at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018 | |
| Born | Iain Colin Prentice 25 June 1952[2] |
| Education | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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| Thesis | Studies on modern pollen spectra |
| Website | imperial |
(Iain) Colin Prentice 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][4]
Education
Prentice was educated at the
Career and research
Prentice has held academic and research leadership appointments in several countries, including the chair of
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[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.[3][6][7]
External links
- Colin Prentice Leaf traits and environment: towards a comprehensive theory, in "New Phytologist Foundation"
- Colin Prentice State of ignorance - climate change and the biosphere, in "Imperial College London", AXA professorship inaugural presentation
References
- ^ a b c d e f Colin Prentice publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Colin Prentice at Library of Congress
- ^ 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:
"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)
- ^ a b Anon (2019). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469526.
- S2CID 5711915.
- PMC 3627314.
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