Christians Raunkiær
Christen Christiansen Raunkiær (born March 29, 1860 in Ravnkærgård near Lyne, † March 11, 1938 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish botanist . From 1912 to 1923 he was professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Raunk. ".
Life
After studying biology (finished in 1885) Raunkiær was from 1893 to 1911 a research assistant at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum in Copenhagen .
Raunkiær became known for the way in which plants were classified according to life forms . This is based on the position of the survival buds in relation to the soil surface. There are therophytes , cryptophytes , hemicryptophytes , chamaephytes and phanerophytes distinguished. This concept , which is still widely used in ecology today, was published as early as 1905, and the English-language publication from 1934 is also often cited.
literature
- C. Raunkiær (1905): Types biologiques pour la geographie botanique. Bulletin Academy of Royal Science (Denmark) 5: 347-437
- C. Raunkiær (1934): The Life Forms of Plants and Statistical Plant Geography , Oxford University Press
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Christians Raunkiær at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raunkiær, Christians |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raunkiær, Christen Christiansen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravnkærgård at Lyne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1938 |
| Place of death | Frederiksberg |