Ian Brooker

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Murray Ian Hill Brooker , better known as Ian Brooker (born June 2, 1934 in Adelaide , South Australia , † June 25, 2016 ), was an Australian botanist . He was considered a capacity for the genus Eucalyptus . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Brooker ".

Life

Early years

Ian Brooker was born on June 2, 1934 to Flossie and Murray Brooker. He attended East Adelaide Elementary School and then St. Peter's College in Adelaide. He studied at the University of Adelaide and completed his studies there with the title B.Ag.Sc. (Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences). From 1957 to 1963 Brooker worked in the Soil Conservation Branch of the Department of Agriculture of South Australia. Two early works on soil science, published in the South Australian Journal of Agriculture, date from this time .

Change to botany

From 1963 he studied botany at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra . In 1966 he obtained an M.Sc. with a thesis on "A biosystematics study of Eucalyptus oleosa F. Muell". Brooker stayed at the ANU Botanical Institute until 1969 and then worked for a year at the Western Australian Herbarium in Perth . His work in Perth resulted in Brooker's only vegetation-geographic work, a description of the flora of the Millstream region in the Hamersley Range .

Activity as eucalyptus expert

In 1970 Brooker moved to the "Forest Research Institute" in Canberra, which is now part of the " Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization " (CSIRO), and worked there at the Australian National Herbarium . From this point on he dealt almost exclusively with the taxonomy and determination of the eucalyptus. He traveled all over Australia to collect type material . The Australian National Herbarium lists 12,494 plant samples collected by Brooker. Among the 60 holotypes that Brooker has collected in the course of his career, there is only one species ( Daviesia purpurascens ) that cannot be assigned to the eucalyptus.

1980/81 Brooker was "Australian Botanical Liaison Officer" at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew (London) . From 1982 to 1989 he was stationed in Perth to explore the eucalyptus of Western Australia , but then returned to Canberra. He was retired in 1999, but remained active as a volunteer at CSIRO until 2015. In 2000 he received his doctorate from the ANU with a reinterpretation of the genus Eucalyptus ("A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus") to the D.Sc.

Murray Ian Hill Brooker died on June 25, 2016 in Canberra.

Honors

Eucalyptus brookeriana

1979 Alan M. Gray named a new species of eucalyptus from Tasmania in honor as Eucalyptus brookeriana . Gray originally chose the spelling " brookerana ", which was later corrected to " brookeriana " in accordance with a recommendation of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature .

In 2006 he was made a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia .

Publications

Brooker published over 100 scientific papers in which he described more than 200 new taxa . His most controversial work is probably his dissertation , which was published in 2000 in the specialist magazine "Australian Systematic Botany". Brooker breaks with the traditional systematic threefolding of the Eykaliptus and evaluates the genera Angophora and Corymbia as sub-genera of a single genus Eucalyptus .

Books

In addition to major contributions to the fourth and fifth editions of the popular “Forest Trees of Australia”, Brooker also published several of his own books.

"Eucalyptus Seed"

His first book, which he wrote together with his co-authors Doug Boland and John Turnbull , was published by CSIRO in 1980. In six chapters, the work describes the development and morphology of eucalyptus seeds as well as forestry aspects, such as the extraction of the seeds or the rearing of saplings. David A. Kleinig contributed scanning electron microscope images of the seeds of more than 150 eucalyptus species. Stephen Hopper described the book in 2016 as "still useful".

"Field Guide to Eucalypts"

Brooker published his most extensive and probably best-known work together with Kleinig. Eucalyptus from various Australian regions are described in three volumes that appeared between 1983 and 1994. Volume 1 covers the southeast of Australia, Volume 2 the south and southwest and Volume 3 the north of the continent.

"Atlas of Leaf Venation and Oil Glands in the Eucalypts"

The atlas published in 2013 together with Dean Nicolle describes the nerves and the distribution of the oil glands in fresh eucalyptus leaves and is intended as an aid to determining the terrain.

The EUCLID

At the urging of Judy G. West , Brooker managed the creation of an electronic database for the determination of different eucalyptus species ("EUCLID") from 1996 onwards. The first edition of the database appeared on CD in 1997 . In 2002 the second, updated and expanded edition appeared in which 690 species and subspecies of the genera Eucalyptus and Angophora were described on two CDs . The third edition appeared on DVD in 2006 and described 894 species and subspecies of the genera Eucalyptus , Angophora and Corymbia . Since 2015 is the fourth edition of the database online in the Internet available.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Australian National Herbarium: Brooker, Murray Ian Hill (1934 - 2016). In: Biographical Notes. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, April 10, 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m St. Hopper: Dr. MIH (Ian) Brooker AM: 2nd June 1934-25th June 2016. In: Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter , Volume 168-9, 2016, pp. 54-62, ( digitized ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e NN: Dr Ian Brooker, expert in the eucalyptus genus. In The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 July 2016, p. 31, ( online )
  4. ↑ a b c D. Nicolle: Ian Brooker - eucalypt icon. In: Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter , Volume 168–9, 2016, pp. 63–66, ( digitized ).
  5. ^ A. V, Slee, MIH Brooker, SM Duffy & JG West: Eucalyptus brookeriana . In: EUCLID: Eucalypts of Australia Edition 4th Center for Australian National Biodiversity Research, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ AM Gray: A New Species of Eucalyptus from Tasmania. In: Australian Forest Research , Volume 9, 1979, pp. 111-118.
  7. ↑ R. Onfray: Is it Brooker's Gum, Brookers Gum or Brookerian Gum? In: Forest Practices News , Volume 7, Number 2, 2006, pp. 14-15, ( digitized ).
  8. ↑ DJ Boland, MIH Brooker, GM Chippendale, N. Hall, BPM Hyland, RD Johnston, DA Kleinig, MW McDonald & JD Turner: Forest Trees of Australia. 5th Edition, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2006, ISBN 0-643-06969-0 , p. Xi, ( reading sample ).
  9. ↑ DJ Boland, MIH Brooker & JW Turnbull: Eucalyptus Seed. CSIRO Publishing, Canberra, 1980, ISBN 978-0643025868 , 191 pages, ( short summary on CAB Direct ).
  10. ↑ MIH Brooker & DA Kleinig: Field Guide to Eucalypts: Volume 1: South-eastern Australia. Inkata Press, Melbourne, 1983, ISBN 0-909605-31-9 , 288 pages, ( abstract on CAB Direct ).
  11. ↑ MIH Brooker & DA Kleinig: Field Guide to Eucalypts: Volume 2: South-western and Southern Australia. Inkata Press, Melbourne, 1990, ISBN 0-909605-59-9 , 428 pp.
  12. ↑ MIH Brooker & DA Kleinig: Field Guide to Eucalypts: Volume 3: Northern Australia. Inkata Press, Sydney, 1994, ISBN 0-909605-67-X , 383 pp.
  13. ↑ MIH Brooker & D. Nicolle: Atlas of Leaf Venation and Oil Gland Patterns in the Eucalypts. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 2013, ISBN 978-0643109858 , 232 pp., ( Abstract ), ( reading sample ).
  14. ↑ a b A. V, Slee, MIH Brooker, SM Duffy & JG West: About EUCLID. In: EUCLID: Eucalypts of Australia Edition 4th Center for Australian National Biodiversity Research, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brooker, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brooker, Murray Ian Hill (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2016