Stewart McPherson (geographer)
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Stewart R. McPherson is a British geographer
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He studied at the University of Durham in England, the University of Tübingen in Germany
and Yale University
in the United States
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He is the author of ten volumes concerned with natural history, largely focusing on carnivorous plant
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McPherson co-discovered a number of species, including Nepenthes attenboroughii
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Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
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He studied at the University of Durham in England, the University of Tübingen in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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He is the author of ten volumes concerned with natural history, largely focusing on carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants appear adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic...
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- Pitcher Plants of the Americas
- Lost Worlds of the Guiana Highlands
- Glistening Carnivores - The Sticky-Leaved Insect-Eating Plants
- Pitcher Plants of the Old WorldPitcher Plants of the Old WorldPitcher Plants of the Old World is a two-volume monograph by Stewart McPherson on the pitcher plants of the genera Nepenthes and Cephalotus. It was published in May 2009 by Redfern Natural History Productions...
(2 volumes) - Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats (2 volumes)
- Sarraceniaceae of North America (co-authored with Donald Schnell)
- Sarraceniaceae of South America (co-authored with Andreas WistubaAndreas WistubaDr. Andreas Wistuba is a German taxonomist and botanist specialising in the carnivorous plant genera Heliamphora and Nepenthes. More than half of all known Heliamphora species have been described by Wistuba.-Publications:...
, Andreas Fleischmann, and Joachim NerzJoachim NerzDr. Joachim Nerz is a taxonomist and botanist specialising in the carnivorous plant genera Heliamphora and Nepenthes. Nerz has described several new species, mostly with Andreas Wistuba.-Publications:...
) - Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines (co-authored with Victor B. Amoroso)
McPherson co-discovered a number of species, including Nepenthes attenboroughii
Nepenthes attenboroughii
Nepenthes attenboroughii is a montane species of insectivorous pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is named after the celebrated broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who is a keen enthusiast of the genus. The species is characterised by its large and distinctive bell-shaped...
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