Paul Gelting

Paul Emil Elliot Gelting (30 March 1905 – 18 February 1964) was a Danish ecologist, botanist and lichenologist. He was associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and particularly active in Greenland.

Gelting participated in the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland 1931-34 led by Lauge Koch and the expedition 1938-39 to Northeast Greenland led by Eigil Knuth. From 1946 to 1954, he headed the Arctic Station Qeqertarsuaq, which had been founded by Morten Pedersen Porsild.

Selected scientific bibliography

• Gelting, P. (1934) Studies on the vascular plants of East Greenland between Franz Josef Fjord and Dove Bay (73°20'-76°20' N). Meddelelser om Grønland 101: 1-340.
• Gelting, P. (1937) Studies on the food of the East Greenland ptarmigan especially in its relation to vegetation and snow-cover. Meddelelser om Grønland 116 (1): 1-196.
• Gelting, P. (1937) On Lithoderma fatiscens Areschoug and L. fatiscens Kuckuk. Especially in its relation to vegetation and snow-cover. Meddelelser om Grønland 116 (3): 1-196.
• Gelting, P. (1939) Karplanternes vertikale Udbredelse i Nordøstgrønland i Forhold til Isfremstød og Epirogenese (The vertical distribution of plants in Northeast Greenland in relation to glacier advance and land uplift). Nordiska (19. skandinaviska) naturforskarmötet i Helsingfors den 11-15 augusti 1936: 3 pp.
• Gelting, P. (1941) Über pleistozäne Pflanzenrefugien in Grønland (On Pleistocene refugia for plants in Greenland). Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Schaffhausen 17: 74-96.
• Gelting, P. (1956) Parmelia subaurifera Nyl. and P. fraudans (Nyl.) Nyl. in Greenland. Friesia 3-5: 240-246.

References

1. "Author Query for 'Gelting'". International Plant Names Index.

External links

• WikiSpecies
• Portrait at Arktiske Billeder