J. S. Beard
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Name
John S. Beard
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Dates
1916 - 17 Feb 2011
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Specialities
Spermatophytes
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Roles
Collector, Author, Determiner
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Movement Details
St. Lucia, Virgin Islands (U.K.), Australia
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Notes
Collector Notes: Plant ecologist West Indies; A, MO, NY, TRIN St. Lucia (1945): NY
From wikipedia.org (10 Mar 2011):
John Stanley Beard (born 1916, died 17 February 2011) was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided 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 floristic zones and biogeographical areas for the whole state. He was the main author of the 1974-1981 explanatory notes to the mapping project of the Vegetation Survey of Western Australia. He was also Director of the Kings Park and Botanic Garden for some time.
Beard received an OAM in 2003.[1] He died in February 2011 at the age of 95 [2] -
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