John Stanley Beard

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This article is about the forester and ecologist. For the architect who practised as J. Stanley Beard, see John Stanley Coombe Beard.

John Stanley Beard (15 February 1916 – 17 February 2011) was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. Beard studied at the University of Oxford where he completed his doctoral thesis on tropical forestry.

While working with the Forestry Division in

Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the Lesser Antilles;[1][2]
these descriptions remain standard references on the topics.

After leaving Trinidad, Beard moved to South Africa and then to Australia, where he produced an extensive series of vegetation maps covering much of the country.

His extensive surveys of

horticultural requirements of Western Australia’s native plants.[3]

In his retirement, he produced popular accounts of his vegetation studies in Plant Life of Western Australia (1990),[6] and of his taxonomic and horticultural studies of Protea spp. in Proteas of Tropical Africa (1992).[7]

Beard received an OAM in 2003.[4] He died in February 2011 at the age of 95.[8][9]

The standard author abbreviation Beard is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]

References

  1. JSTOR 1930688
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  2. JSTOR 1931434
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  3. ^ a b c Keighery, B. and G., ‘Beard, John Stanley’, in R. Aitken and M. Looker (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 80
  4. ^ a b Dixon, Kingsley W. (2006) Celebration of a life in botany. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia vol. 89, pt. 3, (Sept. 2006), p. 93-97
  5. ^ ‘John Stanley Beard (1916–2011)’, Australian Garden History, 22 (4), 2011, p. 28
  6. ISBN 978-0-86417-279-2
  7. ISBN 978-0-86417-449-9
  8. ^ Mendez, Torrance (2011) Brilliant botanist shaped Kings Park The West Obituaries, page 48, The West Australian 24 February 2011
  9. ^ A thanksgiving service for the life of John Stanley Beard MA BSc., D. Phil (Oxon), AM : 15th February 1916-17th February 2011 : Brown's Chapel Thursday 24th February 2011 at 12 noon, 2011, retrieved 19 January 2017
  10. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Beard.
  • Beard, J.S. 1990. Checklist of the coastal flora of the South-West Botanical Province, Western Australia. Kingia, Vol. 1, no. 3 (1990), p. 255-281

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