David Mabberley, Professor Dr. David John Mabberley (born 1948), is a botanist, educator and writer. Among his varied interests is the taxonomy of tropical plants, especially trees of the families Labiatae, Meliaceae and Rutaceae. He is perhaps best known for his plant dictionary The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants. The third edition was published in 2008 as Mabberley's Plant-book, for which he was awarded the Engler Medal in Silver in 2009.
Among the awards he has received are the José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany and the Peter Raven Award (by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists to a plant systematist who has made successful efforts to popularize botany to non-scientists), both in 2004. In the same year he was appointed to the Orin and Althea Soest Chair in Horticultural Science at the University of Washington.[1] In March 2008 he took up the newly-created position of Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[2]
In 2005 he was elected President of the IAPT.
Published Books:
Mabberley, D.J. 2007. Mabberley's plant-book. A portable dictionary of plants, their classifications, and uses, third edition. Cambridge University Press.
Juniper, B.E., and D.J. Mabberley. 2006. The story of the apple. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, USA & Cambridge, UK.
D.J. Mabberley. 2000. Arthur Harry Church: the anatomy of flowers. Merrell & The Natural History Museum, London.
D.J. Mabberley. 1999. Ferdinand Bauer: the nature of discovery. Merrell Holberton & The Natural History Museum, London.
D.J. Mabberley. 1999 [‘1998’]). Paradisus: Hawaiian plant watercolors by Geraldine King Tam. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA.
Lack, H.W., and D.J. Mabberley. 1998 [‘1999’]. The Flora Graeca Story. Sibthorp, Bauer and Hawkins in the Levant. Oxford University Press.
Watts, P., J.A. Pomfret, and D.J. Mabberley. 1997. An exquisite eye: The Australian flora and fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer. Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Glebe, New South Wales, Australia.
Mabberley, D.J. 1997. The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants, second edition. Cambridge University Press, UK.
Mabberley, D.J., Pannell, C.M. & Sing, A.M., 1995. Meliaceae. In: Foundation Flora Malesiana (Editor). Flora Malesiana, Series 1, Volume 12. Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Mabberley, D.J., and P.J. Placito. 1993. Algarve plants and landscape. Passing tradition and ecological change. Oxford University Press.
Mabberley, D.J. 1991. Tropical rain forest ecology, second edition. Blackie, Glasgow.
Mabberley, D.J. 1987. The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the higher plants. Cambridge University Press.
Mabberley, D.J. 1985. Jupiter botanicus. Robert Brown of the British Museum. Cramer, Braunschweig & British Museum (Natural History), London.
Mabberley, D.J. 1983. Tropical rain forest ecology. Blackie, Glasgow.
Mabberley, D.J. (Ed.) 1981. Revolutionary botany. Thalassiophyta and other essays of A.H. Church. Clarendon, Oxford.
Mabberley, D.J., and C.K. Lan (Eds.). 1977. Tropical botany. Essays presented to E.J.H. Corner for his seventieth birthday. Botanic Gardens, Singapore.
References
- ^ Etaerio - A Plant News Weblog: Dr. David Mabberley Joins Faculty at Univ. of Washington at www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org
- ^ New Keeper for Kew's Historic Herbarium at www.bgci.org
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
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