William Pearsall
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Harold Pearsall was a British botanist, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1944–1957. Awards and honours Pearsall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1940. His nomination reads:
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- Phytoplankton in the English Lakes: II. The Composition of the Phytoplankton in Relation to Dissolved Substances (1932) (300)
- The aquatic vegetation of the English lakes. (1920) (219)
- The development of vegetation in the English lakes, considered in relation to the general evolution of glacial lakes and rock basins (1921) (197)
- Vegetation and Hydrology (1963) (147)
- Growth Studies VI. On the Relative Sizes of Growing Plant Organs (1927) (130)
- Oxidation-Reduction Potentials in Waterlogged Soils, Natural Waters and Muds (1939) (105)
- Mountains and moorlands (1970) (95)
- Phytoplankton in the English Lakes: I. The Proportions in the Waters of Some Dissolved Substances of Biological Importance (1930) (86)
- PRODUCTION ECOLOGY I. STANDING CROPS OF NATURAL VEGETATION (1956) (84)
- The Soil Complex in Relation to Plant Communities: I. Oxidation-Reduction Potentials in Soils (1938) (78)
- Nitrogen metabolism in plants. (1949) (71)
- The aquatic and marsh vegetation of Easthwaite water. (1917) (70)
- Two Blanket-Bogs in Sutherland (1956) (69)
- A Theory of Diatom Periodicity (1923) (68)
- The growth of chlorella vulgaris in pure culture (1936) (62)
- Acidity, specific conductivity and calcium content of some bog and fen waters in northern Britain (1956) (51)
- Phytoplankton of the English Lakes. (1925) (49)
- MERISTEMATIC TISSUES AND PROTEIN ISO‐ELECTRIC POINTS (1923) (48)
- A Suggestion as to Factors Influencing the Distribution of Free-Floating Vegetation (1922) (48)
- Ecological History of the English Lake District (1947) (45)
- PRODUCTION ECOLOGY III. SHOOT PRODUCTION IN PHRAGMITES IN RELATION TO HABITAT (1956) (45)
- Aster Tripolium L. (1942) (45)
- Freshwater biology and water supply in Britain (1946) (42)
- Report on an Ecological Survey of the Serengeti National Park Tanganyika (1957) (39)
- THE pH OF NATURAL SOILS AND ITS ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE (1952) (36)
- Soil Complex in Relation To Plant Communities III. Moorlands and Bogs (1938) (32)
- The soil complex in relation to plant communities. II: Characteristic woodland soils (1938) (32)
- LEAF ANALYSIS AND SHOOT PRODUCTION IN PHRAGMITES (1963) (31)
- Losses of nitrogen from green plants. (1937) (29)
- A Note on a Connemara Bog Type (1941) (29)
- On the Classification of Aquatic Plant Communities (1918) (27)
- The investigations of wet soils and its agricultural implications. (1950) (27)
- The Physiology and Ecology of the Calcifuge Habit in Eriophorum Angustifolium (1927) (27)
- THE VARIATION OF LEAF FORM IN POTAMOGETON PERFOLIATUS (1925) (27)
- Studies in Growth. IV. Correlations in Development (1923) (25)
- The "Mosses" of the Stainmore District (1941) (23)
- The Relation of Nitrogen Metabolism to Plant Succulence (23)
- The Isoelectric Points of some Plant Proteins. (22)
- Light Penetration into Fresh Water: III. Seasonal Variations in the Light Conditions in Windermere in Relation to Vegetation (1934) (21)
- AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FREEAMINO‐ACIDS IN ORGANIC SOIL TYPES USING PAPER PARTITION CHROMATOGRAPHY (1953) (21)
- Production Ecology II. Estimates of Average Production by Trees (1956) (21)
- Growth Studies. II. An Interpretation of some Growth-curves (1922) (20)
- Production Ecology. IV. Standing Crops of Natural Vegetation in the Sub-Arctic (1957) (18)
- THE DIFFUSION OF IONS FROM LIVING PLANT TISSUES IN RELATION TO PROTEIN ISO‐ELECTRIC POINTS (1924) (17)
- Growth of Chlorella in Relation to Light Intensity (1940) (15)
- The Development of Ecology in Britain (1964) (15)
- The Growth of Chlorella in Darkness and in Glucose Solution (1940) (15)
- The Influence of Light upon Nitrogen Metabolism in Detached Leaves (1939) (14)
- Effects of Age and of Season upon Protein Synthesis in Detached Leaves (1938) (14)
- LIGHT PENETRATION INTO FRESH WATER: II. LIGHT PENETRATION AND CHANGES IN VEGETATION LIMITS IN WINDERMERE (1933) (11)
- The Effect of Mosaic Disease Upon Certain Metabolic Products in the Tobacco Plant (1934) (9)
- Indian forest ecology. A comprehensive survey of vegetation and its environment in the Indian subcontinent [Vols. I & II]. (1960) (9)
- Some Protein Properties of Plant Protoplasm (1925) (8)
- Soil Sourness and Soil Acidity (1926) (8)
- Growth StudiesV. Factors affecting the Development and Form of Leaves (8)
- LIGHT PENETRATION INTO FRESH WATER: I. A THERMIONIC POTENTIOMETER FOR MEASURING LIGHT INTENSITY WITH PHOTO-ELECTRIC CELLS (1933) (7)
- Nitrogen Losses in Green Plants (1936) (6)
- POST‐GLACIAL SEDIMENTS AS A RECORD OF REGIONAL SOIL DRIFTS (1960) (6)
- Growth Studies III. A ‘Volumometer’ Method of measuring the Growth of Roots (1922) (6)
- Water Supply and Biology (1947) (5)
- Measurement of Light for Biological Purposes (1933) (4)
- Habitat, Vegetation and Man (1953) (3)
- Synthesis of Protein by Green Plants (1933) (2)
- The absorption of water by plant tissue in relation to external hydrogen-ion concentration (1927) (2)
- Conservation as a World Problem (1958) (2)
- The Structure, Physiology and Soil of Peat Plants@@@The Physiological Anatomy of the Vascular Plants Characteristic of Peat.@@@Plant Distribution and Basic Ratios. (1922) (2)
- The distribution of the insoluble nitrogen in Beta leaves of different ages. (1931) (2)
- Conservation of Natural Resources (1958) (2)
- Present Trends in Botanical Studies (1959) (1)
- Vegetation of the Rodope Mountains@@@Observations on the Biology of Ephemera Danica. (1929) (1)
- Blakeney Point in 1914.@@@Hydrilla Verticillata in Britain.@@@Pilularia Globulifera in Glamorgan.@@@Stratiotes Aloides Near Criebb.@@@The Ecology of Knockdow Estate, Argyllshire. (1915) (1)
- Preliminary observations on the nitrogenous materials in apples during storage. (1931) (1)
- The Ages of Peat Deposits (1)
- Ecology of wet soils in Britain. (1950) (0)
- A Milestone in Plant Ecology@@@The British Islands and their Vegetation. (1940) (0)
- The Ages of Peat Deposits (1924) (0)
- The Journal of Ecology@@@The Biotic Provinces of North America (1944) (0)
- The Journal Of Ecology Vol-28 (1940) (1940) (0)
- [Letters to Editor] (1925) (0)
- The Plant as an Ecological Instrument@@@Experimental Vegetation.@@@The Phytometer Method in Ecology. (1926) (0)
- Annals Of Botony Vol - 13 (1949) (0)
- Problems of River Pollution (1924) (0)
- A Botanist's Quo Vadis: Integration or Specialization (1953) (0)
- Annals Of Botany Vol - 17 (1953) (0)
- The Journal Of Ecology Vol - 30 (1942) (0)
- Algæ in Sodium Phosphate Solutions. (1928) (0)
- Autumn colours. (1949) (0)
- The Statistical Description of Vegetation (1958) (0)
- Woods of N.E. Yorkshire@@@Yorkshire Naturalists at Thornton Dale. (1922) (0)
- The Journal of Ecology (1938) (0)
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