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Thornton, Ian Walter Boothroyd (1926 - 2002) |
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| Born: 14 July 1926 Halifax, United Kingdom. Died: 1 October 2002 Bangkok, Thailand. | ||
| Ian Walter B. Thornton was Foundation Professor of Zoology at La Trobe University and Professor Emeritus from 1992. His research interests included ecosystem assembly and recovery, and biogeography and ecology of islands. He was educated at the University of Leeds, UK where he completed his PhD on psocoptera (booklice and barklice). Next Thornton went to the Gordon Memorial University College of Khartoum in Sudan followed by appointments of Dean and Reader of Zoology at the University of Hong Kong. In 1968 he left Hong Kong and was appointed Foundation Professor of Zoology at La Trobe University. Throughout his working life, Thornton carried out many field trips which included visits to Africa, Middle East, Asia, Micronesia, the Pacific and parts of Melanesia. His most reported work was of his studies in Krakatau which resulted in many publications including Krakatau. The destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem. |
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