Peter Shaw Ashton | |
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| Born | (1934-06-07)June 7, 1934 (age 91) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | P.S.Ashton |
Peter Shaw Ashton (born 27 June 1934)[1] is a Britishbotanist andforest ecologist. He worked as the Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry atHarvard University from 1991 to 2005 and served as director of theArnold Arboretum from 1978 to 1987.
Born inBoscombe,Bournemouth,England, Ashton received his B.A. in Biology (1956), M.A. in Biology (1960) and Ph.D. in Botany (1962) from theUniversity of Cambridge.[1] He has worked for many years on research projects to promote the conservation and sustainable use of tropical forests, and was instrumental in the project by theCenter for Tropical Forest Science to develop a network ofForest Dynamic Plots that are surveyed regularly to sample the health of the forest. He won theJapan Prize for this in 2007.[2]
In 1983, Ashton was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) during the ATBC Annual meeting held inKunming, China, in 2006. In 2015 the ATBC created in his honor the Peter Ashton Prize, awarded annually to the outstanding article published in the journalBiotropica by a student. He was awarded the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration in 2008.[4]
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