Edwards, Peter John   (1947 -  )

Born 28 December 1947 at Feltham, Middlesex, UK; .

Education:
- Southville Primary School 1954-1959.
- Longford Secondary Modern School, Feltham 1960-1965.
- Open University, Science 1972-1977.

Employed:
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK - Scientific Officer, Pteridophyte Aug 1967 to Jan 1972.

Major overseas fieldwork:
- East New Guinea 1970-1971
- Guyana 1978
- West Malaysia 1985
- W & E Malaysia 1986
- Brazil 1987
- Guyana 1988

Sample publications:

Peter J. Edwards, P. J. Grubb (1977) 'Studies of Mineral Cycling in a Montane Rain Forest in New Guinea: I. The Distribution of Organic Matter in the Vegetation and Soil'
Article Nov 1977, WILEY Journal of Ecology.

P. J. Edwards (1993) As a preliminary to studies on mineral cycling in a tropical montane system, where show release of minerals from organic matter may be an important feature of the environment for plants, estimates have been made of the amounts of organic matter in a Lower Montane Rain forest and its soil at 6°S and altitude c. 2500 m in New Guinea. in:
Large scale ecology and conservation biology : the 35 th Symposium of the British Ecological Society with the Society for Conservation Biology, University of Southampton 1993 / edited by P. J. Edwards, R. M. May, N. R. Webb

Source: Extracted from:
ABRS author survey, mid-1980s
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Edwards-12
Portrait Photo: Researchgate website.

Collecting localities for 'Edwards, P.J.' from AVH (2026)

Data from 162 specimens in Australian herbaria