Arthur Roy Clapham
Botanist, Author
1904 – 1990
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Who was Arthur Roy Clapham?
Arthur Roy Clapham, CBE FRS, was a British botanist. Born in Norwich and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Clapham worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station as a crop physiologist, 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. In response to a request from Arthur Tansley, he coined the term ecosystem in the early 1930s.
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