Alvar Palmgren

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Alvar Palmgren
Born28 April 1880
Helsinki, Finland
Died30 November 1960 (1960-12-01) (aged 80)
Helsinki, Finland
NationalityFinnish
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany, plant ecology
InstitutionsUniversity of Helsinki
Doctoral advisorJ.P. Norrlin
Author abbrev. (botany)Palmgr.

Alvar Palmgren (28 April 1880 – 30 November 1960) was a

ecologist
.

Palmgren studied botany at the University of Helsinki under professor J.P. Norrlin. He graduated (Fil.kand.) in 1906 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1914. He became docent of botany at the University of Helsinki 1916 and professor of botany at the same university in 1928 (from 1938, the first in the special Swedish-language chair of botany). He retired in 1950.[1]

Research

Palmgren worked as a

Henry Gleason on the individualistic behaviour of species in community assembly already from the 1920s.[2]
Palmgren wrote early accounts on the role of isolation and stochastic events in the distribution of species, while his contemporary biology was largely deterministic.[3][4][5]

Jaccard dispute

In the 1920s, Palmgren entered in a heated dispute with the

C. B. Williams and again reiterated by Peter Grant and Daniel Simberloff
in the 1970s.

Miscellaneous

Palmgren was on the board of Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica from 1916. He was chairman 1920–1957.

In addition to his botanical work, Palmgren made an impressive political act as a 22-year-old student. He initiated and led a movement among young Finnish men to refuse

Nicholas II of Russia, sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Finland, put Finnish conscripts under the Russian
military top. The 'strike' movement forced a withdrawal by 1905.

Alvar Palmgren was the father of the zoologist Pontus Palmgren (1907–1993).

The standard author abbreviation Palmgr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]

References

  1. ^ Collander, Runar (1965) The History of Botany in Finland. With an Appendix on Forest Science by Yrjö Ilvessalo. Societas Scientiarum Fennica Helsinki, 159 pp.
  2. ^ A Letter from Henry A. Gleason, written 1952, printed in Brittonia 39: 2 (1987), pp. 205–209.doi
  3. ^ a b Palmgren, A. (1921) Die Entfernung als pflanzengeographischer Faktor (Isolation as a phytogeographical factor). Series Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 49 (1)
  4. ^ Palmgren, A. (1925) Die Artenzahl als pflanzengeographischer Charakter sowie der Zufall und die säkulare Landhebung als pflanzengeographischer Faktoren. Ein pflanzengeographische Entwurf, basiert auf Material aus dem åländischen Schärenarchipel (The number of species as phytogeographical character as well as chance and land uplift as phytogeographical factors, based on studies in Åland). Fennia 46 (2).
  5. ^ Palmgren, A. (1926) Chance as an element in plant geography. In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Plant Sciences, Ithaca, New York (Duggar, B.M. ed.) vol. 1: 591–602
  6. ^ Järvinen, Olli (1982) Species-to-genus ratios in biogeography: a historical note. Journal of Biogeography 9 (4): 363-370.
  7. ^ Maillefer, A. (1929). "Le Coefficient générique de P. Jaccard et sa signification". Mémoires de la Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles. 3 (4): 113–183.
  8. ^ Pólya, G. (1930). "Ein Wahrscheinlichkeitsaufgabe in der Pflanzensociologie". Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. 75: 211–219.
  9. ^ Elton, C. (1946) Competition and the structure of ecological communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 15 (1): 54-68[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Palmgr.

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