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After leaving Trinidad, Beard moved to South Africa and then to Australia , where he produced an extensive series of vegetation maps covering much of the country.

In 1988 a painting of John Beard by artist Fred Cress won the Archibald Prize , Australia's most famous portrait prize.


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  • Beard, J.S. 1944. "Climax vegetation of tropical America." ''Ecology'' 25:127–158

  • Beard, J.S. 1955. "The classification of Tropical American vegetation-types." ''Ecology'' 36:89–100