Dieter Mueller-Dombois
Dieter Mueller-Dombois (born July 26, 1925 ) is an American vegetation expert of German origin.
Live and act
The son of Johanna Dombois and the historian Georg Müller grew up in Bethel near Bielefeld . He studied at the University of Hohenheim , where he graduated in 1951 with a degree in agricultural engineering. He then moved to the University of British Columbia , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry and a Ph. D. in Forest Ecology in 1960.
From 1958 to 1963 he was employed as a Forest Research Officer in the Canada Department of Forestry, Winnipeg , Manitoba and then moved to the University of Hawaii , where he was Assistant Professor of Botany from 1963 to 1968 and then Associate Professor of Botany until 1972 . From 1972 until his retirement in 1990, Mueller-Dombois was Professor of Botany at the University of Hawaii.
Dieter Mueller-Dombois is the brother of the lutenist Eugen Müller-Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ( Basel ), the flautist and musicologist Richard Müller-Dombois, University of Music Detmold , and the architect Wolfram Müller-Dombois in Berlin.
Main research areas
- Ecosystem genesis
- Landscape development after disturbance
- natural development of forest ecosystems and forest dieback
- Vegetation ecology and geobotany of Hawaii
Mueller-Dombois, together with the American botanist Francis Raymond Fosberg, wrote a standard work on "Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands", in which he describes the vegetation ecology on tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean.
Honors
- 1981: Gifford Pinchot Award of the US Forest Service for Forest Ecology Research in Hawaii
- 1982: Double Merit Award for Distinguished Service at the University of Hawaii
- 1988: Fujio Matsuda Scholarship, University of Hawaii
- 1997: Honorary member of the International Association for Vegetation Science
- 2000: Reinhold Tüxen Prize
- 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Cottbus
Web links
- http://www.bills-bunker.privat.t-online.de/81301.html
- http://www.pacificscience.org/pdf/Mueller-DomboisCV.pdf
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dieter_Mueller-Dombois
- https://books.google.ch/books/about/Vegetation_of_the_Tropical_Pacific_Islan.html?id=7UB5d33i8WkC&redir_esc=y
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx
- ↑ Honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. D. Mueller-Dombois. In: btu profile news. Vol. 1, No. 3, 2004, p. 11 ( PDF file; 1 MB )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mueller-Dombois, Dieter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller-Dombois, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American vegetation expert of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1925 |