Johannes Grøntved (25 January 1882 – 11 July 1956) was a

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ance ...

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He made investigations of

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and

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, the

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Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

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Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. He was editor of

The Botany of Iceland ''The Botany of Iceland'' is a five-volume classic scientific work on flora and vegetation of Iceland. It includes fungi, lichen, algae, bryophytes, and vascular plants. History It was published 1912 to 1949 and funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. ...

from vol. 3 part 2.

Selected scientific works

* Grøntved, J. (1927) Formationsstatistiske Undersøgelser paa nogle danske Overdrev.

Botanisk Tidsskrift ''Botanisk Tidsskrift'' (standard abbreviation ''Bot. Tidsskr.'') was a Danish mixed scientific and amateur journal concerning botany, issued in Copenhagen by the Danish Botanical Society. It was published from 1866 to 1980, when it fused with Bot ...

40: 1-71. Used Raunkiær's quantitative method to describe grassland vegetation. The data were later used by

Thorvald Sørensen Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen (4 July 1902 – 21 June 1973) was a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist. Biography Sørensen was professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University 1953–1955 and at the University of Co ...

in developing his '' quotient of similarity''. * Grøntved, J. (1927) Die Flora der Insel Wormsö - Ein Beitrag zur Flora Estlands.

Dansk Botanisk Arkiv ''Dansk Botanisk Arkiv'' was a Danish scientific journal or monograph series concerning botany, issued by the Danish Botanical Society. It was published from 1913 to 1980. Articles were written in Danish, German, English and French. The synonym R ...

5 (4). * Grøntved, J. (1927) Die Flora der Insel

Runö Ruhnu ( sv, Runö; german: Runö; lv, Roņu sala) is an Estonian island in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea. It is administratively part of Saare County but is geographically closer to the Latvian mainland. At , it has currently fewer than 10 ...

Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift ''Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on botany published by the Svenska Botaniska Föreningen since 1907. It is published five times a year. It is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS Previews and Scopus Scopus is Els ...

23: 399–460. * Ostenfeld, C.H. & Grøntved, Johs. (1934) The Flora of

and the Færoes. Copenhagen. * Grøntved, J. (1939) Polygonaceernes Udbredelse i Danmark he distribution in Denmark of Polygonaceae

45: 10–58. * Grøntved, J. & Sørensen, T. (1941) Nøgle til bestemmelse af danske græsser i blomsterløs tilstand etermination key to vegetative grasses in Denmark Munksgaard, København. * Grøntved, Johs. (1942) The pteridophyta and spermatophyta of Iceland.

, edited by Johannes Grøntved,

Ove Paulsen Ove Vilhelm Paulsen (22 March 1874 – 29 April 1947) was a Danish botanist. Biography Paulsen was born at Aarhus, Denmark. He studied at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugen Warming (1841-1924). Paulsen was a keeper at the Bota ...

and

. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen; Vol. 4, Part 1, pp. 1–427. 1942. * Grøntved, J. (1954) Typhaceernes og Sparganiaceernes udbredelse i Danmark he distribution in Denmark of Typhaceae and Sparganiaceae

50: 209–238.

References

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