This is a list of botanists by their authorabbreviation, designed for citation in the botanical names they have published.
Use of this list is recommended by Rec.
Note that in some cases an "authorabbreviation" consists of a full surname, while in other cases the surname is not only abbreviated but accompanied by one or more initials.
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For each List 3 plant we have provided the known information, indicated in the Note where assistance is needed, and tentatively assigned the taxon to a more definite list.
This may be particularly appropriate for the type locality of a List 4 plant, for populations at the periphery of a species' range or in areas where the taxon is especially uncommon or has sustained heavy losses, or for populations exhibiting unusual morphology or occurring on unusual substrates.
Abbreviations that are commonly used in the notes are explained on the inside front cover.
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The term methodists was coined by Carolus Linnaeus in his Bibliotheca Botanica to denote the authors who care about the principles of classification (in contrast to the mere collectors who are concerned primarily with the description of plants paying little or no attention to their arrangement into genera, etc).
Important early methodists were an Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist Andrea Caesalpino, an English naturalist John Ray, a German physician and botanist Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, and a French physician, botanist, and traveller Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.
These names are frequently abbreviated: the abbreviation "L." is universally accepted for Linnaeus, and in botany there is a regulated list of standard abbreviations (see list of botanists by authorabbreviation).
George Washington Carver Encyclopedia Article @ Troubling.net(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It is his work at the experiment station in plant pathology and mycology that first gained him national recognition and respect as a botanist.
Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were his recipes and improvements to/for: adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain.
The standard authorabbreviation Carver may be used to indicate this person in citing a botanical name.
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At each of these levels a botanist might be concerned with the classification (taxonomy), structure (anatomy), or function (physiology) of plant life.
However, attention is still given to them by botanists, and bacteria, fungi, and algae are usually covered in introductory botany courses.
The German Leonhart Fuchs, the Swiss Conrad von Gesner, and the British authors Nicholas Culpeper and John Gerard published herbals that gave information on the medicinal uses of plants.
Botanists have found that the number of taxa in a given area scales with the area to roughly the 1/3 power.
In this case, botanists follow the same convention as astronomers - the first assigned name is retained for one of the newly-separated species, and a new name is given to the newly-recognized species.
Botanists always preserve an example of a new species that is given a name for the first time.
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Pehr Kalm (March 6, 1716 - November 16, 1779) (in Finland also known as Pietari Kalm and in some English-language translations as Peter Kalm) was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist.
Kalm arrived in Pennsylvania in 1748; there he was befriended by Benjamin Franklin.
The standard botanical authorabbreviation Kalm is applied to plants described by this botanist, who should also appear in the List of botanists by authorabbreviation.
This list was compiled from several published sources and from specimens in the Oregon State University Herbarium (OSC), Willamette University Herbarium (WI LLU) and the University of Oregon Herbarium (ORE), all of which are housed at Oregon State University.
List of taxa of uncertain standing: this includes names applied to herbarium specimens for which we cannot easily track synonymy, taxa mentioned in various sources but not fully documented, and other names of taxa of uncertain disposition.
Authors not included in the document should be spelled out fully as they appear in the original publication or other source and a note be included to indicate that a standard abbreviation is needed.
This is a list of botanists by their authorabbreviation, including that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992), designed for citation in the botanical names they have published.
Note that in some cases an "authorabbreviation" consists of a full surname, while in other cases the surname is not only abbreviated but accompanied by one or more initials.
See also the list of botanists, List of South African plant botanical authors and Botanists.
I suspect that because a lot of botanists were distincly unspecialised, I have ended up "category-swamping" a few of them and therefore it is unlikely that the categorisation scheme will hold for long.
Actually keeping "Botanists studying fungi" distinct from "Mycologists" is probably a good idea for now, since those in the former category were often rather part-time mycologists and the in the latter rather more full-time.
However, sometimes the IPNI abbreviation is hard to find if you only have the name to work from (their search engine isn't the best!).
wordsonline.org /MPF (7947 words)
Plant Science Bulletin - June 1970, Volume 16, Issue 2(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The author has avoided an intentional focus on basic concepts and principles of plant pathology, mechanisms of pathogenesis, and definition of terms, and, instead, has concentrated on etiology, symptoms, and control of a systematic listing of plant diseases.
Each abbreviationlisted is cross-referenced to a recommended abbreviation followed by a concise statement of the title in full, changes in name and numbering of volumes, original place of publication, the number of volumes published, and years of publication.
As abbreviations used by most botanists are included in the Periodical Listing, this appendix may seem superfluous but many ephemeral government leaflets, congress publications, and newly created serials not listed may be cited in botanical publications.
Podlech, D.: The Munich botanist, mainly a collector of phanerogams, collected some few lichens in Afghanistan which are probably housed in Munich (M).
From 1975 to 2001 botanist at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, from 1988 additionally "Abteilungsleiter für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit", from 1992 second director, 2000 - 2001 "Kommissarischer Direktor", from 2001 director at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe.
is applied to plants described by this botanist, who should also appear on this list.
Note regarding personal names: Freiherr is a title equal to the title Baron, not a first or middle name.
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Notes, Botanists with authorabbreviations, Austrian botanists, Botanists active in North America, Algologists, Bryologists, Pteridologists, Mycologists, Austrian explorers, Austrian chemists, Austrian nobility, 1727 births, 1817 deaths and Fellows of the Royal Society.
At each of these levels a botanist might be concerned with the classification (taxonomy), structure (anatomy), or function (physiology) of plant life.
However, attention is still given to them by botanists, and bacteria, fungi, and algae are usually covered in introductory botany courses.
The German Leonhart Fuchs, the Swiss Conrad von Gesner, and the British authors Nicholas Culpeper and John Gerard published herbals that gave information on the medicinal uses of plants.
