Michael Ristow (conservationist)

Michael Ristow is a German botanist and entomologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Ristow ".

From 1989 to 2000 Ristow worked as a freelance expert in the field of nature conservation; He was involved in the creation of Red Lists of endangered plants and animals, biotope and vegetation mapping and studies of changes in vegetation when the groundwater level subsided; he also prepared protection reports. Since 2001 he has been a technical assistant at the Chair of Vegetation Ecology and Nature Conservation at the University of Potsdam , where he is responsible for field work on flora and fauna in the Vegetation Ecology and Nature Conservation group.

Ristow deals with the taxonomy and systematics of so-called “critical plant groups”, such as roses ( Rosa ) and willows ( Salix ). He is involved in the creation of a flora in his hometown Berlin, as well as in the creation of distribution atlases on the flora of Germany. Ristow worked as a technical advisor for the German edition of Botanica , published in 2003 .

Ristow was involved in the first description of the sweet grass Scolochloa marchica .

Fonts

• M. Düvel, Michael Ristow, H. Scholz: Scolochloa marchica sp. nova (Poaceae), a new reed grass from Central Europe . In: Fedde's repertory . tape 112 , no. 5-6 , 2001, pp. 331-341 .
• R. Prasse, Michael Ristow, G. Klemm, B. Machatzi, T. Raus, H. Scholz, H. Sukopp, F. Zimmermann: List of wild growing vascular plants of the state of Berlin with red list . Ed .: Sen. City. / State representative Nature conservation landscape conservation Berlin. 2001 (85 pages).
• B. Machatzi, A. Ratsch, R. Prasse, Michael Ristow: Red list and total species list of grasshoppers and crickets (Saltatoria: Ensifera et Caelifera) from Berlin . In: The state commissioner for nature conservation and landscape management and the Senate Department for Urban Development: Red lists of endangered plants and animals from Berlin . Berlin 2005 (CD-Rom).

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• Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica: The ABC of Plants. 10,000 species in text and images . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5 , p. 5 .
• Michael Ristow , short profile with list of publications at the University of Potsdam

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Michael Ristow (nature conservationist) at the IPNI