Paul Irwin Forster

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Paul Irwin Forster
Born
Paul Irwin Forster

(1961-11-03) 3 November 1961 (age 62)
Spermatophytes[1]
Author abbrev. (botany)P.I.Forst.
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Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of Australia and related regions.

He has worked at the

cycads.[3][4][5]

He has also published extensively on plant-insect interactions ( See, e.g.,[6][7][8][9]) and on the family Apocynaceae.[10][11][12][13]

The standard author abbreviation P.I.Forst. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[14]

Plants named in his honour

(from CHAH biography)[3]

Published names

Forster has published 489 botanic names as of 22 March 2024.[1] A selection of them appears below.

For a full list of all names authored by Forster, see his profile at the International Plant Names Index. See also this list of Wikipedia articles of taxa named by him.

Some publications

  • (1989) Ecophysiological, morphological and anatomical variation between selected provenances of Eucalyptus grandis and E. saligna (Myrtaceae)
  • (1990) Proposal to Conserve Marsdenia R. Br. against Stephanotis Thouars (Asclepiadaceae). Taxon 39 ( 2): 364-367
  • (1991) A taxonomic revision of Cynanchum L. (Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadoideae) in Australia. Australian systematic botany 3
  • (1991) A taxonomic revision of Gymnanthera
    R.Br.
    (Asclepiadaceae: Periplocoideae) in Australia    . Australian systematic botany 4
  • (1992) A taxonomic revision of Alstonia (Apocynaceae) in Australia. Australian systematic botany 5
  • 1992b. New Varietal Combinations in Agave Vivipara (Agavaceae). Brittonia 44 ( 1): 74-75
  • (1993) Rediscovery of Euphorbia carissoides (Euphorbiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 6 (3): 269-272
  • (1993) Taxonomic Relationships and Status of the Genus Dorystephania (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae) from the Philippines and Borneo. Australian Systematic Botany 6 ( 4): 351-357
  • (1994) Type collections of Asclepiadaceae at Herbarium Bogoriense (BO). Australian Systematic Botany 7 (5 ): 507-519
  • (1995) New names and combinations in Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae) from Asia and Malesia (excluding Papusia). Australian Systematic Botany 8 ( 5): 691-701
  • (1995) Corrigenda — Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8 (5 ): 703-933
  • (1995) Circumscription ofMarsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8 ( 5): 703-933
  • ----, PC van Welzen. 1999. The Malesian species of Choriceras, Fontainea, and Petalostigma (Euphorbiaceae). Blumea, J.Plant Taxonomy & Geography 44-1
  • Terry, I., CJ Moore, GH Walter, PI Forster, RB Roemer, J Donaldson, P Machin. (2004) Association of cone thermogenesis and volatiles with pollinator specificity in Macrozamia cycads. Plant Systematics and Evolution 243: 233-247
  • Chemnick, J, R Oberprieler, J Donaldson, I Terry, R Osborne, W Tang, PI Forster. (2004) Insect pollinators of cycads: protocol for collecting and studying cycad pollinators. The Cycad Newsletter 27 (5): 3-7
  • Terry, I, G Walter, C Moore, PI Forster, P Machin, J Donaldson. (2004) Cone volatiles of selected Macrozamia species and their possible role in pollinator specificity and species isolation. pp. 155–169. En Ed. A. Lindstrom (ed.). Proc. from the 61º International Cycad Conference on Cycad Biology, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden, Tailandia. 155-169
  • Rasikari, HL, Leach, DN, Waterman, PG, Spooner-Hart, RN, Basta, AH, Banbury, LK & Forster, PI. (2005) Acaricidal and cytotoxic activities of extracts from selected genera of Australian Lamiaceae. J. of Economic Entomology 98 ( 4): 1259-1266
  • Rasikari, HL, Leach, DN, Waterman, PG, Spooner-Hart, RN, Basta, AH, Banbury, LK, Winter, KM & Forster, PI. (2005) Cytotoxic clerodane diterpenes from Glossocarya calcicola. Phytochemistry 66 ( 24): 2844-2850
  • Terry, I, G Walter, C Moore, PI Forster, J Donaldson. (2005) Pollination of Australian Macrozamia cycads - effectiveness and behavior of specialist vectors in a dependent mutualism. Am. J. of Botany
  • Wanntorp, L; PI Forster. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships between Hoya and the monotypic genera Madangia, Absolsmia, and Micholitzia (Apocynaceae, Marsdenieae): Insights from flower morphology. Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Terry, I, PI Forster, R Roemer, P Machin, C Moore. (2008). Does Macrozamia platyrhachis (Zamiaceae) deserve endangered species status? Conservation and pollination biology of a geographically restricted cycad. Australian J. of Botany

References

  1. ^ a b "Forster, Paul Irwin (1961-)". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  2. Wikidata Q22712153
    .
  3. ^ a b CHAH Biographical notes: Paul Irwin Forster. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  4. Wikidata Q91458189
    .
  5. Wikidata Q92315118. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 17 September 2021.
  6. Wikidata Q100150249
    .
  7. Wikidata Q94268276
    .
  8. Wikidata Q100150279
    .
  9. Wikidata Q100150298
    .
  10. Wikidata Q111741553
    .
  11. Wikidata Q121247600. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 17 September 2021.
  12. Wikidata Q92300499
    .
  13. Wikidata Q55756314
    .
  14. ^ International Plant Names Index.  P.I.Forst.

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