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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Parnell, John Adrian | |
| Main Department | Botany | |
| College Title | Professor of Systematic Botany | |
| john.parnell@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1269 | |
| Web | http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=botany&p_name=jparnell | |
| Fax | +353 1 896 1147 | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Subject Editor Nordic Journal of Botany | 2011 |
| Organiser (with T. Hodkinson, S. Waldren & M. Jones) of Systematics and Climate Change meeting | 2008 |
| Organiser of 13th International Flora of Thailand meeting | 2005 |
| Organiser (with T. Hodkinson & S. Waldren) of Fourth Biennial meeting of the Systematics Association | 2003 |
| Editor Thai Forest Bulletin | 2002- |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| International Association of Plant Taxonomists | 2001 | |
| Linnean Society of London | 1985 | |
| Botanical Society of the British Isles | 1978 |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Visiting Professor Khon Khan University | 2008 |
| Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (F.T.C.D.) | 1993 - |
| Visiting Research Scientist, Khon Kaen University, Thailand | 1990 |
| Royal Irish Academy/Royal Society Visiting Fellowship to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew | 1988 |
| Royal Irish Academy/Royal Society Visiting Fellowship to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) | 1987 |
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| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Higher plant taxonomy and floristics; biodiversity and conservation. My base of botanical experience is European but since coming to TCD I have focussed my research interests on the palaeotropics. I have co-authored/edited a number of books: these include, a revised version of the standard Irish Flora 'An Irish Flora' with David Webb; a new account of the Flora of County Dublin - a project run by the Dublin Naturalists Field Club; a third, with Trevor Hodkinson, is published by the Systematics Association and deals with the problem of Species-rich groups and the Tree of Life; the penultimate, also published by the Systematics Association and with a number of authors from TCD, is on Climate Change and Systematics; finally, the newest edition of the Irish Flora 'Webb's An Irish Flora' is expected to be in bookshops this November. Most of my paleotropical work has concentrated on revisions for the Flora of Thailand; recently published work covers the Lentibulariaceae and Orobanchaceae of that country. I am an editor of the Flora of Thailand and various journals including Nordic Journal of Botany and Thai Forest Bulletin, have brought in ca. €1,650,000 in research funding and published over 150 peer reviewed papers. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Biodiversity | Botany | Conservation Biology | Flora of Thailand |
| Plant Sciences | Plant Taxonomy | Plant systematics |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Digitisation of Latin American type specimens and selected historical specimens in the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) |
| Summary | The project aims to digitise and make available through the web all 'Latin american' types of higher plants and algae, as well as selected historical specimens lodged in the TCD herbarium. Many of these materials are unique, and some are not easily available to researchers. This project forms a separate component of the larger Latin American Plants Initiative, co-ordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. |
| Funding Agency | Mellon |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1/1/2007 |
| Date to | 31/3/2009 |
| Person Months | 48 |
| Project title | Digitisation of African type specimens and selected historical specimens in the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) |
| Summary | The project aims to digitise and make available through the web all African types of higher plants and algae, as well as selected historical specimens lodged in the TCD herbarium. Many of these materials are unique, and some are not easily available to researchers. This project forms a separate component of the larger African Plants Initiative, co-ordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. |
| Funding Agency | Mellon |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Research |
| Date from | 2006 |
| Date to | 2006 |
| Person Months | 9 |
| Project title | An expandable web-enabled organism inventory and keys to the macrophytes and higher plants of Co. Clare and the Aran Islands |
| Summary | inventory and keys to the flowering plants and marine macroalgae of the Burren and the Aran Islands using the Linnaeus II web-enabled programme (http://www.eti.uva.nl/products/linnaeus.php) which ultimately will be expandable to cover the entire Irish macrophyte flora and fauna. This project froms a part of a larger project entitled Biodiversity and environmental change: an intergrated study encompassing a range of scales, taxa and habitats. |
| Funding Agency | EPA |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | research |
| Date from | 2006 |
| Date to | 2009 |
| Person Months | 30 |
| Project title | The genetic relationships, phylogeny and conspecificity of Irish E. aquaticum populations with those from Scotland and North America. |
| Summary | This project aims to determine whether Irish, British and American material of Eriocaulon aquaticum (Hill) Druce (Pipewort) are con-specific, to compare the genetic structure of Irish, British and American populations and to detail the reproductive biology of Irish material. Based on previous work undertaken by the proposer’s research group on the Eriocaulaceae, molecular, morphological, cytological and anatomical techniques will be used to gather data which will then be analysed using phenetic (ordination, discriminant and possibly co-inertia analyses) and phylogenetic (maximum parsimony and likelihood) techniques and population genetic (diversity and differentiation) to determine the answers to the above questions. |
| Funding Agency | EPA |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Ph.D. research project |
| Date from | 2007 |
| Date to | 2010 |
| Person Months | 36 |
| Project title | The genetic relationships, phylogeny and conspecificity of Irish Daboecia cantabrica populations with those from Europe.. |
| Summary | This proposal aims to determine whether Irish material is most closely related to material in France or Northern Spain or Portugal. It also aims to compare the genetic structure of Irish, Spanish and Portugese populations and to detail the reproductive biology, population size and reproductive biology of Irish material. |
| Funding Agency | IRCSET |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Ph.D. research project |
| Date from | 31/9/2008 |
| Date to | 31/9/2011 |
| Person Months | 36 |
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| Publications and Other Research Outputs |
| Peer Reviewed |
| T. Santisuk, K. Larsen, M. Newman, K. Chayamarit, H. Balslev, C. Phengkhlai, H. Pedersen, J. Parnell, D. Middleton, M. Newman, D.A. Simpson, P.C. van Welzen, H-J. Esser, S. Hul & M. Kato, Flora of Thailand, 10(4), Bangkok, The Forest Herbarium, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 2011, 469 - 474+LXXVI pp | |
| T. Santisuk, K. Larsen, M. Newman, K. Chayamarit, H. Balslev, C. Phengkhlai, H. Pedersen, J. Parnell, D. Middleton, M. Newman, D.A. Simpson, P.C. van Welzen, H-J. Esser, S. Hul & M. Kato,, Flora of Thailand 11(1), Bangkok, The Forest Herbarium, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 2011, 1 - 99 + VIIpp | |
| The current and future status of Floristic Provinces in Thailand. Pp in, editor(s)Y. Trisurat, R.P. Shrestha, & R. Alkemade , Land use, climate change and Biodiversity Modeling. Perspectives and applications, Hershey, Information Science Reference, 2011, pp219 - 247, [Van Welzen, P.F., Madern, A., Raes, N., Parnell, J.A.N., Simpson, D.A., Byrne, C., Curtis, T., Macklin, J., Trias-Blasi, A., Prajaksood, A., Bygrave, P., Dransfield, S., Kirkup, D.W., Moat, J., Wilkin, P., Couch, C., Boyce. P.C., Chayamarit, K., Chantaranothai, P., Esser, H-J., Jebb, M.H.P., Larsen, K., Larsen, S.S., Nielsen, I., Meade, C., Middleton, D.J., Pendry, C.A., Musaya, A.M., Pattharahirantricin, N., Pooma, R., Suddee, S., Staples, G., Sungkaew, S. & Teerawatananon, A. ] | |
| Lentibulariaceae in, editor(s)T. Santisuk, K. Larsen, M. Newman, K. Chayamarit, H. Balslev, C. Phengkhlai, H. Pedersen, J. Parnell, D. Middleton, M. Newman, D.A. Simpson, P.C. van Welzen, H-J. Esser, S. Hul & M. Kato, , Flora of Thailand 11 (1), Bangkok, The Forest Herbarium, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 2011, pp16 - 45, [J. Parnell] | |
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