Arthur Roy Clapham
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Arthur Roy Clapham, CBE FRS (24 May 1904 - 18 December 1990), was a British botanist. Educated at Cambridge, Clapham was Professor of Botany at Sheffield University 1944-69. He coauthored the Flora of the British Isles, first published in 1952 and followed by two later editions in 1963 and 1987. In response to a request from Arthur Tansley, he coined the term ecosystem in the early 1930s .[1]
Clapham received the Linnean Medal in 1972.
[edit] External links
- Clapham papers, at Sheffield University
[edit] References
- ^ Willis A J (1997), "The ecosystem: an evolving concept viewed historically", Functional Ecology 11:2, page 268-271.
