Ove Paulsen

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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

References

  1. ^ "Warming, (Johannes) Eugenius (Bülow) (Denmark 1841-1924)". people.wku.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  2. ^ Paulsen, Ove (1912) Studies on the vegetation of the Transcaspian lowlands. Second Danish Pamir-expedition 1898–1899. Copenhagen, Gyldendal.
  3. ^ Olufsen, O. (1904). Through the Unknown Pamirs: the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99. London: W. Heinemann. pp. ix.
  4. ^ Paulsen, Ove (1915) Some remarks on the Desert Vegetation of America. The Plant World 18: 155-161.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Paulsen.

Works on Ove Paulsen