Ove Paulsen
Ove Vilhelm Paulsen (22 March 1874 – 29 April 1947) was a Danish
botanist
.
Biography
Paulsen was born at Aarhus, Denmark. He studied at the
Eugen Warming
(1841-1924).
[1]
Paulsen was a keeper at the Botanical Museum of the
Persia and Pamir as early as 1898–1899.[2] During his travels through Pamir, he was accompanied by the Danish explorer Ole Olufsen (1865–1929).[3]
Ove Paulsen visited North America with the second International Phytogeographic Excursion from July to September 1913 and subsequently described the biome zonation from east to west in a paper.[4]
The plant species Kali paulsenii is among the many plant taxa named for him.
Selected scientific works
- Børgesen, F. & Paulsen, O. (1898) Om Vegetationen paa de dansk-vestindiske Øer. København: Nordisk Forlag. 114 s. French edition 1900: La végétation des Antilles Danoises en francais par Mlle S.Eriksson. See notes under Børgesen.
- Ostenfeld, C.H. & Ove Paulsen (1910-1911) Marine plankton from the East-Greenland Sea (W. of 6° W. Long, and N. of 73° 30’ N. Lat.): collected by the "Danmark-Expedition" 1906–1908. Meddelelser om Grønland bd. 43 (11).
- I : List of diatoms and flagellates / by C.H. Ostenfeld. 1910
- II : Protozoa / by C.H. Ostenfeld. 1910
- III : Peridiniales / by Ove Paulsen. 1910
- IV : General remarks on the microplankton / by C.H. Ostenfeld and Ove Paulsen. 1911
- Paulsen, O. (1949) Observations on Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab6 (4): 1-67.
References
- ^ "Warming, (Johannes) Eugenius (Bülow) (Denmark 1841-1924)". people.wku.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ Paulsen, Ove (1912) Studies on the vegetation of the Transcaspian lowlands. Second Danish Pamir-expedition 1898–1899. Copenhagen, Gyldendal.
- ^ Olufsen, O. (1904). Through the Unknown Pamirs: the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99. London: W. Heinemann. pp. ix.
- ^ Paulsen, Ove (1915) Some remarks on the Desert Vegetation of America. The Plant World 18: 155-161.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Paulsen.
Works on Ove Paulsen
- Steemann Nielsen, E. (1949) Obituary in ICES Journal of Marine Science Vol. 16 (1): 14-15.
- Jessen, Knud (1947) Ove Vilhelm Paulsen 22. marts 1874 - 29. April 1947. Botanisk Tidsskrift vol. 48.