Colin Prentice

FRS
Colin Prentice at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
Iain Colin Prentice

(1952-06-25) 25 June 1952 (age 71)[2]
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisStudies on modern pollen spectra
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/c.prentice

(Iain) Colin Prentice FRS (born 25 June 1952)[2][3] 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][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[4] 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.[3] He led the research programme quantifying and understanding the earth system for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[3] 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).[3] As of 2018 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]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Colin Prentice publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Colin Prentice at Library of Congress
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ a b Anon (2019). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
  5. ^ Prentice, Iain Colin (1977). Studies on modern pollen spectra. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500543790. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469526.
  6. ^ Foley, J. A. (2005). "Global Consequences of Land Use". Science. 309 (5734): 570–574. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..570F. doi:10.1126/science.1111772. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16040698. S2CID 5711915. Closed access icon
  7. ^ Kattge, J.; Diaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Bönisch, G.; Garnier, E.; Westobys, M.; Reich, P.B.; Wrights, I.J.; Cornelissen, C.; Violle, C.; Harisson, S.P.; et al. (2011). "TRY - a global database of plant traits". Global Change Biology. 17 (9): 2905–2935. Bibcode:2011GCBio..17.2905K. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x. OCLC 1018986898. PMC 3627314.

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