Arthur Roy Clapham

Arthur Roy Clapham, CBE FRS^[1] (24 May 1904 - 18 December 1990), was a British botanist.^[2][3]

Born in Norwich and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Clapham worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station as a crop physiologist (1928–30), and then took a teaching post in the botany department at Oxford University. He was Professor of Botany at Sheffield University 1944-69. He coauthored the Flora of the British Isles^[4], first published in 1952 and followed by two later editions in 1962 and 1987. In response to a request from Arthur Tansley, he coined the term ecosystem in the early 1930s .^[5][6]

Clapham was president of the Linnean Society from 1967 to 1970, and received the Linnean Medal in 1972.

Books

• (with W.O. James) The biology of flowers. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1935.
• (with T.G. Tutin and E.F. Warburg) Excursion flora of the British Isles. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1959.
• Flora of Derbyshire. Derby Museum and Art Gallery. 1969.
• The Oxford book of trees, (illustrations by B.E. Nicholson). London : Oxford University Press, 1975.

Academic offices
Preceded by John Macnaghten Whittaker	Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield 1965	Succeeded by Hugh Robson

The standard author abbreviation A.R.Clapham is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[7]

References

1. ^ Willis, A. J. (1994). "Arthur Roy Clapham. 24 May 1904-18 December 1990". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 39: 72–80. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0005.  edit
2. ^ Pigott, D. (1992). "Obituary: Arthur Roy Clapham, CBE, FRS (1904-1990)". Journal of Ecology 80 (2): 361–365.  edit
3. ^ Pigott, D. (1991). "Professor A. R. Clapham. C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D (Cantab), Hon. Litt. D. (Sheffield), Hon. LL.D. (Aberdeen), F.R.S. (Editor of the New Phytologist, 1931-1961)". New Phytologist 119: 3. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1991.tb01002.x.  edit
4. ^ Roles, Sybil J.; Tutin, Thomas Gaskell; Warburg, E. F. (1957). Flora of the British Isles. Illustrations. Cambridge, Eng: University Press. ISBN 0-521-04657-2. 
5. ^ Willis A J (1997), "The ecosystem: an evolving concept viewed historically", Functional Ecology 11:2, page 268-271.
6. ^ Willis, A. J. (1997). "Forum". Functional Ecology 11 (2): 268. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.1997.00081.x.  edit
7. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

External links

• Clapham papers, at Sheffield University
• Royal Society certificate of election

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Name	Clapham, Arthur Roy
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Date of birth	24 May 1904
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Date of death	18 December 1990
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