| RefNo | EC/1997/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Jarvis, Paul Gordon: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1994 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Professor Jarvis has made a unique contribution to plant ecology by elucidating the dependence of transpiration and photsynthesis 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 deteremine the diffusuion 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 ia a prominent leader of initernationally-planned research on biological aspects of climate change, in particular, the impact of raised levels of CO2 on forest photosynthsis, on carbon accumulation in forests, and on feedback between vegetation and the atmosphere. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4646 | Jarvis; Paul Gordon (1935 - 2013) | 1935 - 2013 |