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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