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Dr Michael Charles Faraday Proctor PhD (born 1929) is an English botanist and plant ecologist, lecturer, scientific author and currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=michael_proctor )〕 He retired from his post as Reader in Plant Ecology at Exeter University in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_274959_en.html )〕 Proctor has published more than 100 research papers,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Proctor2/publications )〕 and is regarded as one of Britain's pre-eminent plant ecologists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bol.com/nl/p/vegetation-of-britain-and-ireland/9200000009272181/ )〕 In 1968 he revised and updated Arthur Tansley's book 'Britain's Green Mantle'. He has been a contributing author to all of the five volumes of the definitive work on British Plant Communities, edited by J.Rodwell (1991-2000), and has also written three books in the New Naturalist Series: two on pollination, and one on the vegetation of Britain and Ireland. ==Academic career== Proctor studied botany, zoology and chemistry for his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paigntonzoo.org.uk/about/people/trustees/michael-proctor )〕 then did research on rock-roses (''Helianthemum'').〔 In 1956 he published a significant work on the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire, which embodied "the accumulation of Cambridgeshire bryophyte records begun by Prof. P.W. Richards in 1927”. Proctor’s flora set out the history of bryophyte recording in the vice-county of Cambridgeshire and provided a guide to the main habitats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/recording/vc29.htm )〕 It was the first detailed account of the bryophytes of that county since 1820, when the third edition of Relhan’s Flora Cantabrigiensis was published.〔 Proctor's interest in insects and pollination ecology dates from his student days, shared with Peter Yeo at Cambridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.overdrive.com/creators/502835/michael-proctor )〕 After leaving Cambridge, Proctor was employed by the Nature Conservancy in North Wales for two years,〔 before joining the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter in November 1956〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Proctor2/info )〕 where he taught botany and ecology until retiring in September 1994.〔 His main research interests have included distribution and ecophysiology of bryophytes,〔 especially with reference to the Dartmoor oakwoods such as Wistman's Wood; the vegetation and water chemistry of blanket bogs and mires,〔 plus the distribution, ecology and physiology of the filmy ferns, Hymenophyllum tunbrigense and H. wilsonii.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/lookingafter/laf-naturalenv/laf-ecologywildlife/laf-researchsurvey/laf-dbrgcompletedresearch/laf-dbrgresearchproctor )〕 Proctor was editor of Watsonia, the journal of the then Botanical Society of the British Isles from April 1961 to July 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Proctor (botanist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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