Vladimir Nikolayevich Sukachev
Vladimir Sukachev ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Сукачёв ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukačëv , also English transcribed Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukacev * May 26 jul. / 7. June 1880 greg. In Alexandrowka, Kharkov Governorate , today Ukraine ; † 9 February 1967 in Moscow ) was a Russian forest scientist and geobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is Sukaczev .
Live and act
Sukachev studied forestry and especially botany at the Forestry Institute in Saint Petersburg until 1902 . Influential teachers were Ivan Borodin and Georgi Morozov . After his graduation he was assistant at the chair for botany, then from 1919 to 1941 professor and head of the chair for dendrology and plant systematics in Leningrad, which he founded. 1934 to 1948 he was director of the forest nature reserve on the Worskla . From 1941 to 1942 he was full professor of biological sciences at the Forest Technology Institute in Sverdlovsk in the Urals .
From 1944 he built the Forestry Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Krasnoyarsk . At the same time he was from 1944 to 1948 Professor at the Forest Technology Institute and 1946 to 1953 Professor of Botanical Geography at Moscow University .
Sukatschow worked with pollen analysis methods in the field of palaeobotany , he was a peat explorer, vegetation scientist (phytocoenologist) and is considered the founder of biocenology as a new discipline.
He introduced the term biogeocenosis into ecological science, which corresponds functionally (not in terms of dimensions) to that of the ecosystem .
Taxa named after Sukachev
Several taxa are named in honor of Sukachev:
- Aira Sukachevii Popl. ex Roshev.
- Deschampsia sukachevii Roshev.
- Saussurea sukaczevii Lipsch.
- Senecio sukaczevii Shishk.
- Syncalathium sukaczevii Lipsch.
- Tephroseris sukaczevii (Siskin) Holub
- Betula × sukaczewii Soczava
- Climacoptera sukaczevii Botsch.
- Salsola sukaczevii (botsch.) AJLi
- Sedum sukaczevii Maximova
- Carex sukaczovii VIKrecz.
- Astragalus sukaczevii Derviz-Sokolova & Elenevsky
- Aconitum sukaczevii Steinb.
- Pulsatilla sukaczewii Juz.
- Alchemilla sukaczevii VNTikhom.
- Ulmus sukaczevii Andronov
- Viola × sukaczewii Vl.V. Nikitin
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Sukachev at the IPNI
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| SURNAME | Sukachev, Vladimir Nikolayevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сукачёв, Владимир Николаевич (Russian); Sukacev, Vladimir Nikolaevic (English transcription); Sukačëv, Vladimir Nikolaevič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian forest scientist and geobotanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandrowka, Kharkov Governorate , today Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1967 |
| Place of death | Moscow |