Clifford Evans (ecologist)
British ecologist
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George Clifford Evans (1913–2006) was a British ecologist.[1][2] He was President of the British Ecological Society (1975–1976) and Chairman of the British Photobiological Society (1979–1981). He was a fellow and Bursar of St John's College, Cambridge, who held his portrait, and wrote the textbook The Quantitative Analysis of Plant Growth.[3][4] An obituary by the Department of Plant Sciences also cited his work on sunflecks and light interception in forest understories as particularly important.[2]
Evans and his wife, Jessie Margaret (née Hadfield), were the parents of British-Malaysian botanist Ruth Kiew. He died in 2006 and was buried in the churchyard of Coton, Cambridgeshire.[2] His papers are held by the University of Cambridge.[5]
