Norbert Meyer

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Norbert Meyer

Norbert Meyer (born May 20, 1954 in Nuremberg ) is a German botanist and vegetation expert . Its botanical author abbreviation is "N. MEY ”.

Career

Meyer is the son of construction foreman Wilhelm F. Meyer. After graduating from high school in 1973, he studied biology and chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for teaching at grammar schools and graduated with the first state examination. In 1982 he passed the diploma in biology. Since then he has been working as a freelancer, since 1984 partner of an institute for vegetation science and landscape ecology.

Norbert Meyer has published important taxonomic papers on the critical genera Hieracium ( hawk herbs ) and Sorbus ( whitebeams ), and deals with the recording of endangered vascular plants and historical fruit varieties (focus: pome fruit ). He works with the floristic mapping of Bavaria, the association for the research of the flora of the Regnitz area , the Regensburg Botanical Society, the Bavarian Botanical Society and the project New Flora of Bavaria. He heads the Sorbus working group at the Society for Research into Flora in Germany.

Meyer is the curator of the herbarium of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg .

Is named after him Meyers whitebeam ( Sorbus meyeri S. HAMMEL & HAYNOLD) and the new Haw genus Normeyera Sennikov & KURTTO.

Works (selection)

  • Sorbus . In: Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland - Vascular Plants, Critical Supplementary Volume . 11th edition, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2016, pages 113–130, ISBN 978-3-8274-3131-8 .
  • together with G. Gottschlich, Ch. Reisch: New Hieracium Taxa from the southeastern Franconian Jura . In: Ber. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 85 , Munich 2015, pages 57-72.
  • together with T. Gregor , L. Meierott , J. Paule: Diploidy suggests hybrid origin and sexuality in Sorbus subgen. Tormaria from Thuringia, Central Germany . In: Plant Systematics and Evolution . Vol. 300, Springer, Vienna 2014, pages 2169–2175.
  • together with L. Meierott, H. Schuwerk, O. Angerer: Contributions to the genus Sorbus in Bavaria . In: Ber. Bayer. Bot. Ges., Special volume , Munich 2005, pages 5–216.
  • together with D. Theisinger: The Hain-Hungerblümchen - Draba nemorosa L. - a new find for Northern Bavaria . In: Natur und Mensch - mid-year. Naturhist. Ges. Nürnberg , 1997, pages 75-76.
  • together with R. Suck: On the dissemination and sociology of Sorbus franconica J. Bornm. ex Düll and Sorbus pseudothuringiaca Düll in Franconia . In: Ber. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 61 , Munich 1990, pages 181-198.

Newly described plant species

He described a number of new taxa:

literature

Web links

  • Author entry [1] and list of the plant names described for Norbert Meyer at the IPNI
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and vegetation expert
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg