Background
HARPER, John was born on May 27, 1925 in Rugby, Warwicks. Son of John H. and Harriet M. (nbe Archer) Harper.
research biologist consultant and author
HARPER, John was born on May 27, 1925 in Rugby, Warwicks. Son of John H. and Harriet M. (nbe Archer) Harper.
He obtained his degree in Botany in (1946) and his Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy (1950) from Oxford. He served as president of the British Ecological Society (Educational Studies, Elementary School) (1966–1968) and of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (1993-1995).
After a further nine years conducting research at the Department of Agriculture, Oxford, and a sabbatical as Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of California, Davis, he was in 1967 appointed head of Agricultural Botany at Bangor University North Wales. He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989. He has authored several textbooks on ecology and population biology.
The British Ecological Society awards the John L. Harper Young Investigator"s prize annually to the best paper in Journal of Ecology by a young author
He died on 22 March 2009. Harper, J.L., J.T. Williams & G.R. Sagar (1965) The Behaviour of Seeds in Soil: I. The Heterogeneity of Soil surfaces and its Role in Determining the Establishment of Plants from Seed.
Journal of Ecology 53 (2): 273-286. JStor
J.L. Harper (1967) A Darwinian Approach to Plant Ecology.
Journal of Ecology 55 (2): 247-270.
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White, James & J.L. Harper (1970) Correlated Changes in Plant Size and Number in Plant Populations Journal of Ecology 58 (2): 467-485. JStor
Harper, John L. & John Ogden (1970) The Reproductive Strategy of Higher Plants: I. The Concept of Strategy with Special Reference to Senecio vulgaris L. Journal of Ecology 58 (3): 681-698. JStor
Ross, Master of Arts & John L. Harper (1972) Occupation of Biological Space During Seedling Establishment.
Journal of Ecology 60 (1): 77-88.
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He was a member of the British Humanist Association.
Married Borgny Lero in 1954.