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Paul Gordon Jarvis

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Doctoral students
  
Yingping Wang

Children
  
Three

Spouse
  
Margaret

Born
  
Paul Gordon Jarvis 23 May 1935 Tunbridge Wells, Kent (
1935-05-23
)

Theses
  
Growth and regeneration of Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. in the Sheffield region (1960) Comparative studies in plant water relations (1963)

Died
  
5 February 2013, Aberfeldy, United Kingdom

Alma maters
  
University of Oxford (BA), University of Sheffield (PhD), Uppsala University (PhD)

Fields
  
Plant physiology, Plant ecology

Institutions
  
University of Edinburgh, University of Aberdeen, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Notable awards
  
Fellow of the Royal Society (1997), Royal Society of Edinburgh (1979)

Paul Gordon Jarvis (1935 - 2013) FRS was a leading ecologist and Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 2001.

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Education

Jarvis was educated at Oriel College, Oxford graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Botany. He went to 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. Funded by a NATO scholarship, he moved to Uppsala University where he was awarded a second doctorate in plant physiology in 1963.

Career and research

In 1964 he moved to Australia, where he did postdoctoral research at the 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.

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

Awards and honours

Jarvis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997. His certificate of election reads:

In 1978, Jarvis was a founding member of the influential peer reviewed scientific journal Plant, Cell & Environment with David Jennings a mycologist at the University of Liverpool; John Raven, a botanist at the University of Dundee; Harry Smith at the University of Nottingham and the publisher Bob Campbell at Blackwell Scientific publications. He served on the editorial board of Photosynthetica, was the President Society for Experimental Biology and a Commissioner of the 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.

Personal life

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

References

Paul Gordon Jarvis Wikipedia