Paul Gordon Jarvis

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Paul Jarvis
FRSE
Born
Paul Gordon Jarvis

(1935-05-23)23 May 1935
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Died5 February 2013(2013-02-05) (aged 77)[2]
Aberfeldy, Scotland
Alma mater
SpouseMargaret[2]
ChildrenThree[2]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Theses

Paul Gordon Jarvis (23 May 1935 – 5 February 2013)

Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 2001.[4][5][6][7][8][2]

Education

Jarvis was educated at

graduate school at the University of Sheffield where he was awarded a PhD in 1960 for research on the growth and regeneration of Irish oak Quercus petraea.[10] Funded by a NATO scholarship, he moved to Uppsala University where he was awarded a second doctorate in plant physiology in 1963.[11]

Career and research

In 1964 he moved to

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). He returned to the United Kingdom in 1966, where he worked at the University of Aberdeen for nine years until 1975, and then at the University of Edinburgh for twenty six years where he was a Professor until his retirement in 2001.[12]

Jarvis research interests were in plant ecology and plant physiology.[13][14][15] He demonstrated the link between forests and the atmosphere using novel techniques for measuring leaf water potential and stomatal conductance.[4][5][16] He is the author, co-author or editor of several textbooks and monographs including The carbon balance of forest biomes[17] with Howard Griffiths.

Awards and honours

Jarvis was elected a

forest stand and in estimating CO₂ fluxes as a function of light transmission and interception. Currently, he is a prominent leader of internationally-planned research on biological aspects of climate change, in particular, the impact of raised levels of CO₂ on forest photosynthesis, on carbon accumulation in forests, and on feedback between vegetation and the atmosphere.[1]

In 1978, Jarvis was a founding member of the influential

Countryside Commission for Scotland. He was also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1979, the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Institute of Chartered Foresters and the Institute of Biology
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Personal life

Jarvis met his wife Margaret while they were both undergraduates at Oxford, they had three children.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Certificate of election EC/1997/14: Jarvis, Paul Gordon". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017.
  2. ^
    doi:10.3832/ifor0102-006
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  3. ^ Paul Gordon Jarvis's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^
    doi:10.1098/rstb.1976.0035
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  5. ^
    PMID 25750234
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  6. ^ "Paul Gordon Jarvis, FRS, FRSE (1935 – 2013)" (PDF). bsbi.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
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    PMID 23421651
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  8. S2CID 167530
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  9. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.2019.0027
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  10. OCLC 270819383
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  11. OCLC 883168822
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  12. ^ "Obituary: Paul Gordon Jarvis FRS, FRSE, ecologist and micro-meteorologist". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013.
  13. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00453.x
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  14. S2CID 4415477
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  15. S2CID 205005949
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  16. S2CID 85989305
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  17. ^ Howard Griffiths and Paul Jarvis (2005) The carbon balance of forest biomes [ISBN missing]
  18. ^ "Wiley-Blackwell Announces Retirement of Bob Campbell". wiley.com. 28 February 2013. Archived from the original on 30 March 2016.
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