John Stanley Beard

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John Stanley Beard (1916-) is a British-born forester and ecologist who now resides in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the Lesser Antilles; 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 Western Australia set standards for understanding regional florisitic zones and biogeographical areas for the whole state/

In 1988 a painting of John Beard by artist Fred Cress won the Archibald Prize, Australia's most famous portrait prize.

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  • Beard, J.S. 1944. "Climax vegetation of tropical America." Ecology 25:127–158
  • Beard, J.S. 1955. "The classification of Tropical American vegetation-types." Ecology 36:89–100
  • 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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