Paul Jarvis
Born Paul Gordon Jarvis
(1935-05-23 ) 23 May 1935Died 5 February 2013(2013-02-05) (aged 77)
[2] Alma mater Spouse Margaret
[2] Children Three
[2] Awards Scientific career Fields Institutions
Theses
Paul Gordon Jarvis (1935 - 2013)
FRS
FRSE
[1]
[3] was a leading
ecologist and
Professor of
Forestry and
Natural Resources at the
University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 2001.
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[2]
Education
Jarvis was educated at
Oriel College, Oxford graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
Botany .[
when? ] 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 .
[9] Funded by a
NATO scholarship, he moved to
Uppsala University where he was awarded a second doctorate in
plant physiology in 1963.
[10]
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.
[11]
Jarvis research interests were in
plant ecology and
plant physiology .
[12]
[13]
[14] He demonstrated the link between forests and the atmosphere using novel techniques for measuring leaf
water potential and
stomatal conductance .
[4]
[5]
[15] He is the author, co-author or editor of several textbooks and monographs including The carbon balance of forest biomes
[16] with
Howard Griffiths .
Awards and honours
Jarvis was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997 .
[1]
[17] His certificate of election reads:
Professor Jarvis has made a unique contribution to
plant ecology by elucidating the dependence of
transpiration and
photosynthesis on
physiological and environmental factors over a wide range of scales from cellular to regional. He was one of the first to develop rigorous schemes for the
movement and storage of water in plants and for the resistances and potential gradients that determine the diffusion of water vapour and carbon dioxide within leaves. He developed a formula expressing the dependence of stomatal conductance on weather and soil factors that has been widely used by other workers. He was a pioneer in measuring photosynthesis and respiration in a
forest stand and in estimating
CO₂ fluxes as a function of light transmission and interception. Currently, he is a prominent leader of internationally-planned research on biological aspects of
climate change , in particular, the impact of raised levels of
CO₂ on forest photosynthesis, on carbon accumulation in forests, and on feedback between vegetation and the atmosphere.
[1]
In 1978, Jarvis was a founding member of the influential
peer reviewed
scientific journal
Plant, Cell & Environment
[7] 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 .
[18] He served on the editorial board of
Photosynthetica , was the President of the
Society for Experimental Biology [
when? ] 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.
[2]
References
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"Certificate of election EC/1997/14: Jarvis, Paul Gordon" . London:
Royal Society . Archived from
the original on 10 May 2017.
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b
c
d
e Mencuccini, M (2013).
"Paul Jarvis, FRS, FRSE: Plant ecologist who showed the link between forests and the atmosphere" . IForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry . 6 (2): 100–101.
doi :
10.3832/ifor0102-006 .
^
Paul Gordon Jarvis's publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^
a
b Jarvis, P. G. (1976).
"The Interpretation of the Variations in Leaf Water Potential and Stomatal Conductance Found in Canopies in the Field" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 273 (927): 593–610.
Bibcode :
1976RSPTB.273..593J .
doi :
10.1098/rstb.1976.0035 .
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a
b Beerling, D. J. (2015).
"Gas valves, forests and global change: A commentary on Jarvis (1976) 'The interpretation of the variations in leaf water potential and stomatal conductance found in canopies in the field' " . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 370 (1666): 20140311.
doi :
10.1098/rstb.2014.0311 .
PMC
4360119 .
PMID
25750234 .
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"Paul Gordon Jarvis, FRS, FRSE (1935 – 2013)" (PDF) . bsbi.org.uk. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
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a
b Smith, Harry (2013).
"Paul Gordon Jarvis, FRS: Co-founding editor of Plant , Cell & Environment" . Plant, Cell & Environment . 36 (5): 907–8.
doi :
10.1111/pce.12080 .
PMID
23421651 .
^ Marek, M. V. (2013). "Paul Gordon Jarvis". Photosynthetica . 51 (2): 161–162.
doi :
10.1007/s11099-013-0029-y .
S2CID
167530 .
^ Jarvis, Paul Gordon (1963). Growth and regeneration of Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. in the Sheffield region (PhD thesis). University of Sheffield.
OCLC
270819383 .
^ Jarvis, Paul Gordon (1963).
Comparative studies in plant water relations (PhD thesis). Uppsala University.
OCLC
883168822 .
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"Obituary: Paul Gordon Jarvis FRS, FRSE, ecologist and micro-meteorologist" .
The Scotsman . Archived from
the original on 7 December 2013.
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Malhi, Y. ; Baldocchi, D. D.; Jarvis, P. G. (1999).
"The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests" . Plant, Cell and Environment . 22 (6): 715–740.
doi :
10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00453.x .
^ Magnani, Federico; Mencuccini, Maurizio; Borghetti, Marco; Berbigier, Paul; Berninger, Frank; Delzon, Sylvain; Grelle, Achim; Hari, Pertti; Jarvis, Paul G.; Kolari, Pasi; Kowalski, Andrew S.; Lankreijer, Harry; Law, Beverly E.; Lindroth, Anders; Loustau, Denis; Manca, Giovanni; Moncrieff, John B.; Rayment, Mark; Tedeschi, Vanessa; Valentini, Riccardo; Grace, John (2007). "The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests". Nature . 447 (7146): 849–851.
Bibcode :
2007Natur.447..849M .
doi :
10.1038/nature05847 .
hdl :
11563/869 .
PMID
17568744 .
S2CID
4415477 .
^ Valentini, R.; Matteucci, G.; Dolman, A. J.; Schulze, E.-D.; Rebmann, C.; Moors, E. J.; Granier, A.; Gross, P.; Jensen, N. O.; Pilegaard, K.; Lindroth, A.; Grelle, A.; Bernhofer, C.; Grünwald, T.; Aubinet, M.; Ceulemans, R.; Kowalski, A. S.; Vesala, T.; Rannik, Ü.; Berbigier, P.; Loustau, D.; Guðmundsson, J.; Thorgeirsson, H.; Ibrom, A.; Morgenstern, K.; Clement, R.; Moncrieff, J.; Montagnani, L.; Minerbi, S.; Jarvis, P. G. (2000). "Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests". Nature . 404 (6780): 861–5.
Bibcode :
2000Natur.404..861V .
doi :
10.1038/35009084 .
PMID
10786790 .
S2CID
205005949 .
^ Janssens, I. A.; Lankreijer, H.; Matteucci, G.; Kowalski, A. S.; Buchmann, N.; Epron, D.; Pilegaard, K.; Kutsch, W.; Longdoz, B.; Grunwald, T.; Montagnani, L.; Dore, S.; Rebmann, C.; Moors, E. J.; Grelle, A.; Rannik, U.; Morgenstern, K.; Oltchev, S.; Clement, R.; Gudmundsson, J.; Minerbi, S.; Berbigier, P.; Ibrom, A.; Moncrieff, J.; Aubinet, M.; Bernhofer, C.; Jensen, N. O.; Vesala, T.; Granier, A.; Schulze, E. -D.; Lindroth, A.; Dolman, A. J.; Jarvis, P. G.; Ceulemans, R.; Valentini, R. (2001). "Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests". Global Change Biology . 7 (3): 269–278.
Bibcode :
2001GCBio...7..269J .
doi :
10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00412.x .
S2CID
85989305 .
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Howard Griffiths and Paul Jarvis (2005) The carbon balance of forest biomes [
ISBN missing ]
^ Grace, John (2019).
"Paul Gordon Jarvis. 23 May 1935—5 February 2015" . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 68 : 251–272.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.2019.0027 .
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"Wiley-Blackwell Announces Retirement of Bob Campbell" . wiley.com. 28 February 2013. Archived from
the original on 30 March 2016.
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