Title: |
‘Reindeer Botanist’ and the Onset of Canadian Arctic Ecology (In memory of the 40th anniversary of A. E. Porsild’s passing) |
Authors Name: |
Josef Svoboda |
Journal: | Czech Polar Reports |
Issue: | 7 |
Volume: | 2 |
Page Range: | 244-247 |
No. of Pages: | 4 |
Year: | 2017 |
DOI: |
10.5817/CPR2017-2-23 |
Publishers: | muniPress Masaryk University Brno |
ISSN: | 1805-0689 (Print), 1805-0697 (On-line) |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Abstract: |
Alf Erling Porsild, a field naturalist by birth and life-long practice was a pioneer, greater than life Canadian Arctic eco-botanist. And that before the term ‘ecology’ became a household name among the Canadian field biologists.
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References: |
Bliss, L. C. (ed.) (1977): Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Canada: A High Arctic Ecosystem. The University of Alberta Press. 714 p. Datham, V. (2012): The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild 1901-1977. University of Calgary Press. 726 p. Porsild, E. (1936): The Reindeer Industry and the Canadian Eskimo. The Geographical Journal, 88.1: 1-17. Porsild, A. E. (1964): Illustrated flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (2nd edition, revised). National Museum of Canada Bulletin, 146: 1-218. Porsild, A. E., Cody, W. J. (1980): Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Canada. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 667 p.
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Notes: | ASSW |