Peter Wilfred James

Peter Wilfred James (1930–2014) was an English botanist and lichenologist. He was a pioneer in the study of lichens as "environmental indicators, especially in atmospheric pollution".[1]

Peter Wilfred James
Born(1930-04-28)28 April 1930
Sutton Coldfield, UK[1]
Died13 February 2014(2014-02-13) (aged 83)
Birmingham, UK
NationalityUK
CitizenshipUK
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
AwardsAcharius Medal (1992)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
InstitutionsNatural History Museum, London
Author abbrev. (botany)P.James

Peter W. James grew up in Sutton Coldfield, which was then a rural suburb of Birmingham. He graduated with a B.Sc. in botany from the University of Liverpool. There he enrolled as a Ph.D. student with the intention of studying lichenology, but never completed his doctorate. In 1955 he started work as a lichen specialist at London's Natural History Museum. He spent his career there, became a deputy Keeper of Botany, and retired in 1990. In 1958 he was one of the founders of the British Lichen Society. From 1958 to 1977 he was the editor of the British Lichen Society's journal The Lichenologist.[1]

Many of Peter's publications are landmarks in the recent history of lichenology. Of his earlier works are his "New checklist of British Lichens" (1965) and his major contribution to Ursula Duncan's Introduction to British Lichens (1970) – both were a major stimulus to lichen taxonomy and field-studies in NW Europe. Other landmarks include, for example, his paper on cephalodia (with Aino Henssen, 1976), the preliminary prospectus of lichen communities in the British Isles (with David Hawksworth and Francis Rose, 1977), and the monographs on Nephroma (with Joy White, 1987, 1988).[2]

He was a coeditor and senior contributor for editor-in-chief Ole William Purvis's Lichen Flora of Great Britain of Ireland (1992).[2][3] James contributed to the sections on Agyrium, Degelia, Megalospora, and Megaspora.[4]

His interests extended overseas to temperate South America as well as Australia, New Zealand and the Atlantic islands. He was a founder member, acting treasurer and first president of the International Association for Lichenology and co-ordinated its first field meeting in the Austrian Alps in 1971.[1]

Selected publications
  • James, P. W. (2007). "A New Check-List of British Lichens". The Lichenologist. 3 (1): 95–153. doi:10.1017/S0024282965000130. ISSN 0024-2829.
  • James, P. W. (1970). "The Lichen Flora of Shaded Acid Rock Crevices and Overhangs in Britain". The Lichenologist. 4 (4): 309–322. doi:10.1017/S0024282970000403.
  • James, P. W.; Vězda, A. (1971). "Melanophloea P. James & Vězda, A New Lichen Genus". The Lichenologist. 5 (1–2): 89–91. doi:10.1017/S0024282971000112.
  • Rose, F.; James, P. W. (1974). "Regional Studies on the British Lichen Flora I. The Corticolous and Lignicolous Species of the New Forest, Hampshire". The Lichenologist. 6: 1–72. doi:10.1017/S002428297400003X.
  • James, P. W.; Henssen, Aino (1976). "Morphological and taxonomic significance of cephalodia". In Brown, D. H.; Hawksworth, D. L.; Bailey, R. H. (eds.). Lichenology: Progress and Problems; Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the University of Bristol in April 1974. Systematics Association special volume, no. 8. London; New York: Published for the Systematics Association and the British Lichen Society by Academic Press. ISBN 978012136750320 symposium papers; xii+551 pages, 33 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. (over 175 citations)
  • James, P. W.; Hawksworth, David L.; Rose, Francis (1977). "Lichen communities in the British Isles: a preliminary conspectus". In Seaward, M.R.D. (ed.). Lichen Ecology. Academic Press. pp. 295–413.
  • Bailey, R. H.; James, P. W. (1979). "Birds and the Dispersal of Lichen Propagules". The Lichenologist. 11: 105–106. doi:10.1017/S0024282979000141. (over 60 citations)
  • Hawksworth, D. L.; James, P. W.; Coppins, B. J. (1980). "Checklist of British Lichen-Forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi". The Lichenologist. 12: 1–115. doi:10.1017/S0024282980000035. (over 250 citations)
  • Jørgensen, P. M.; James, P. W. (1983). "Studies on Some Leptogium Species of Western Europe". The Lichenologist. 15 (2): 109–125. doi:10.1017/S0024282983000183.
  • Elix, JA; Jones, AJ; Lajide, LCBJ; James, PW (1984). "Two new diphenyl ethers and a new depside from the lichen Micarea prasina Fr". Australian Journal of Chemistry. 37 (11): 2349. doi:10.1071/CH9842349.
  • Galloway, D. J.; James, P. W. (1985). "The Lichen Genus Psoromidium Stirton". The Lichenologist. 17 (2): 173–188. doi:10.1017/S0024282985000226.
  • Purvis, O. W.; James, P. W. (1985). "Lichens of the Coniston Copper Mines". The Lichenologist. 17 (3): 221–237. doi:10.1017/S0024282985000299.
  • Elix, JA; Gaul, KL; James, PW (1985). "α-Acetylhypoconstictic Acid, a New Depsidone from the Lichen Menegazzia dispora". Australian Journal of Chemistry. 38 (11): 1735. doi:10.1071/CH9851735.
  • Elix, JA; Jenie, UA; Arvidsson, L.; Jorgensen, PM; James, PW (1986). "New Depsidones from the Lichen Genus Erioderma". Australian Journal of Chemistry. 39 (4): 719. doi:10.1071/CH9860719.
  • James, P. W.; White, F. Joy (1987). "Studies on the Genus Nephroma I. The European and Macaronesian Species". The Lichenologist. 19 (3): 215–268. doi:10.1017/S0024282987000239.
  • Elix, JA; Gaul, KL; James, PW; Purvis, OW (1987). "Three New Lichen Depsidones". Australian Journal of Chemistry. 40 (2): 417. doi:10.1071/CH9870417.
  • White, F. Joy; James, P. W. (1988). "Studies on the Genus Nephroma II. The Southern Temperate Species". The Lichenologist. 20 (2): 103–166. doi:10.1017/S0024282988000167.
  • Purvis, O. William; Tittley, I.; Chimonides, P. D. Jim; Bamber, Roger; Hayes, Peta A.; James, Peter W.; Rumsey, Fred J.; Read, Helen (2010). "Long-term biomonitoring of lichen and bryophyte biodiversity at Burnham Beeches SAC and global environmental change". Systematics and Biodiversity. 8 (2): 193–208. doi:10.1080/14772001003782088.
  • Kantvilas, Gintaras; Elix, John A.; James, Peter W. (1992). "Siphulella, a New Lichen Genus from Southwest Tasmania". The Bryologist. 95 (2): 186–191. doi:10.2307/3243434. JSTOR 3243434.
  • Jørgensen, Per M.; James, Peter W.; Jarvis, Charles E. (1994). "Linnaean lichen names and their typification". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 115 (4): 261–405. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1994.tb01784.x. (over 75 citations)
  • Orange, Alan; James, P. W.; White, F. J. (2001). Microchemical Methods for the Identification of Lichens. ISBN 9780954041809. (over 1790 citations)
  • Wolseley, Patricia A.; James, Peter W.; Theobald, Mark R.; Sutton, Mark A. (2006). "Detecting changes in epiphytic lichen communities at sites affected by atmospheric ammonia from agricultural sources". The Lichenologist. 38 (2): 161–176. doi:10.1017/S0024282905005487. (over 125 citations)
  • Davies, L.; Bates, J.W.; Bell, J.N.B.; James, P.W.; Purvis, O.W. (2007). "Diversity and sensitivity of epiphytes to oxides of nitrogen in London". Environmental Pollution. 146 (2): 299–310. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2006.03.023. PMID 16777294.
  • Larsen, R.S.; Bell, J.N.B.; James, P.W.; Chimonides, P.J.; Rumsey, F.J.; Tremper, A.; Purvis, O.W. (2007). "Lichen and bryophyte distribution on oak in London in relation to air pollution and bark acidity". Environmental Pollution. 146 (2): 332–340. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2006.03.033. PMID 16777299. (over 160 citations)

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Peter Wilfred James

References
  1. Marren, Peter (30 March 2014). "Obituary. Peter James: Lichenologist who was one of the first to establish the study of these primitive plants as a scientific speciality". The Independent.
  2. Coppins, Brian. "Peter James in 1992 Acharius Medallists". International Association of Lichenology (lichenology.org).
  3. Fletcher, A. (2007). "Review of The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. Edited by O. W. Purvis, B. J. Coppins, D. L. Hawksworth, P. W. James and D. M. Moore". The Lichenologist. 26 (2): 217–220. doi:10.1006/lich.1994.1018. ISSN 0024-2829.
  4. Purvis, O. W.; Coppins, B. J.; Hawksworth, D. L.; James, P. W.; Moore, D. W., eds. (1992). The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publications in association with the British Lichen Society. ISBN 978-0-565-01163-5; Pp. 710, 44 figures
  5. IPNI.  P.James.
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