Colin Prentice

Colin Prentice FRS
Prentice in 2018
Born	Iain Colin Prentice (1952-06-25) 25 June 1952 (age 72)[2]
Education	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Carbon[1] Climate change[1] Ecosystems[1] Global change[1] Vegetation[1]
Institutions	Imperial College London Macquarie University University of Bristol Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Lund University Uppsala University Utrecht University University of Southampton Newcastle University University of Bergen
Thesis	Studies on modern pollen spectra
Website	imperial.ac.uk/people/c.prentice

Iain Colin Prentice (born 25 June 1952)^[2][3] is a British ecologist who holds the AXA chair in biosphere and climate impacts at Imperial College London and an honorary chair in ecology and evolution at Macquarie University in Australia.^[1][4]

Education

Prentice was educated at the University of Cambridge where he studied the natural sciences tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973^[4] followed by a PhD in botany in 1977 for studies on pollen spectra.^[5]

Career and research

Prentice has held academic and research leadership appointments in several countries, including the chair of plant ecology at Lund University and a founding directorship of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.^[3] He led the research programme quantifying and understanding the earth system for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).^[3] He developed the standard model for pollen source area, popularized now widely used techniques to analyse species composition along environmental gradients, and led the international development of successive generations of large-scale ecosystem models – from equilibrium biogeography (BIOME) to coupled biogeochemistry and vegetation dynamics (LPJ).^[3] As of 2018^[update] his research applies eco-evolutionary optimality concepts to develop and test new quantitative theory for plant and ecosystem function and land-atmosphere exchanges of energy, water and carbon dioxide, with the goal of more robust and reliable numerical modelling of land processes in the earth system science.^[3][6][7]

External links

• Colin Prentice Leaf traits and environment: towards a comprehensive theory, in "New Phytologist Foundation"
• Colin Prentice State of ignorance - climate change and the biosphere, in "Imperial College London", AXA professorship inaugural presentation

References

1. Colin Prentice publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. Colin Prentice at Library of Congress
3. Anon (2018). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

   "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)

4. Anon (2019). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
5. Prentice, Iain Colin (1977). Studies on modern pollen spectra. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500543790. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469526.
6. Foley, J. A. (2005). "Global Consequences of Land Use". Science. 309 (5734): 570–574. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..570F. doi:10.1126/science.1111772. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16040698. S2CID 5711915.
7. Kattge, J.; Diaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Bönisch, G.; Garnier, E.; Westobys, M.; Reich, P.B.; Wrights, I.J.; Cornelissen, C.; Violle, C.; Harisson, S.P.; et al. (2011). "TRY - a global database of plant traits". Global Change Biology. 17 (9): 2905–2935. Bibcode:2011GCBio..17.2905K. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x. OCLC 1018986898. PMC 3627314.

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