New Naturalist Editorial Board Biographies

Current Board Members (as of May 2010):

Sarah A. Corbet, ScD

Prof. Richard West, ScD, FRS, FGS

David Streeter, MBE, FIB IOL

Jim Flegg, OBE, FIH ORT

Prof. Jonathan Silvertown

Sarah Corbet

Sarah has been a series Editor of the Naturalists’ Handbooks, including authorship of Solitary Wasps (with Peter Yeo) (1983), Bumblebees (with Oliver Prys-Jones) (1987) and Insects, Plants and Microclimate (with D.M. Unwin) (1991). Sarah was Lecturer in both the Department of Applied Biology and later in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge until she retired in 1999.

Richard West

Richard is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he has been Professor of Palaeoecology and Professor of Botany. Among his many publications are Pleistocene Palaeoecology of Central Norfolk (1991), Plant Life in the Quaternary Cold Stages (2000) and more recently, From Brandon to Bungay: An Exploration of the Landscape History and Geology of the Little Ouse and Waveney Rivers (2009).

Jim Flegg

Jim is a British ornithologist and writer on bird-related matters. Jim is also a former director of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). He joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member and became president of Kent Ornithological Society in 1977. He has been a national household name due to his role as presenter on the Coastal Ways and Country Ways television programmes, and among his many books are the Photographic Field Guide: Birds of Australia (2002), Green Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe (2001) and Collins Gem: Birds (1994).

David Streeter

David is Reader in Ecology in the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sussex, where he was Dean from 1984–1989. David has served on the council of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and as chairman of its Conservation Committee and he is president of the Sussex Wildlife Trust. His publications include the recently published Collins Flower Guide (2009).

Jonathan Silvertown

Jonathan’s research broadly covers plant population biology, including population dynamics, life history evolution, evolutionary ecology and community ecology. He is especially interested in the interface between ecology and evolution in plants. His books include An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds (2010), Introduction to Plant Population Biology (2001) and Plant Life Histories: Ecology, Phylogeny and Evolution (1997).