Ove Paulsen: Difference between revisions

'''Ove Vilhelm Paulsen''' (22 March 1874 – 29 April 1947) was a Danish [[botanist]]. He studied at the [[University of Copenhagen]] under professor [[Eugen Warming]]. He was a keeper at the Botanical Museum of the [[University of Copenhagen]] from 1905 to 1920, when he became professor of [[botany]] at the [[University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences|Pharmaceutical College]] in [[Copenhagen]], a position he held until 1947. He studied the flora of [[Denmark]], plankton of the [[North Atlantic]] and the flora of [[Central Asia]]. He went on expeditions to Northern [[Persia]] and [[Pamir Mountains|Pamir]] as early as 1898-1899.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/studiesonvegetat00paulrich Paulsen, Ove (1912) Studies on the vegetation of the Transcaspian lowlands. Second Danish Pamir-expedition 1898-1899. Copenhagen, Gyldendal.]</ref> During his travels through [[Pamir Mountains|Pamir]], he was accompanied by the Danish explorer [[Ole Olufsen]].<ref name=pamirs>{{cite book |last=Olufsen |first=O. |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Through the Unknown Pamirs: the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99 |year=1904 |publisher=W. Heinemann |location=London |id= |pages=ix}}</ref> Ove Paulsen visited [[North America]] with the second [[International Phytogeographic Excursion]] and subsequently described the biome zonation from east to west in a paper.<ref>Paulsen, Ove (1915) Some remarks on the Desert Vegetation of America. The Plant World 18: 155-161.</ref>

 

== Selected scientific works by Ove Paulsen ==