Paul Emil Elliot Gelting (30 March 1905 – 18 February 1964) was a

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ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

, botanist and lichenologist. He was associate professor at the

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and particularly active in

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. Gelting participated in the

Three-year Expedition to East Greenland The Three-year Expedition ( da, Treårsekspeditionen) was an exploratory expedition to East Greenland that lasted from 1931 to 1934 financed by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish state. The expedition included aerial surveys. Many geograph ...

1931-34 led by

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and the expedition 1938–39 to Northeast Greenland led by

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. From 1946 to 1954, he headed the Arctic Station

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, which had been founded by Morten Pedersen Porsild. Gelting is honoured in the name of the fungal genus '' Geltingia''.

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 ''Meddelelser om Grønland'' ("''Communications on Greenland''") is a Danish scientific periodical which publishes scientific results from all fields of research on Greenland. It was established by Frederik Johnstrup and published as a single ser ...

101: 1–340. * Gelting, P. (1937) Studies on the food of the East Greenland

ptarmigan ''Lagopus'' is a small genus of birds in the grouse subfamily commonly known as ptarmigans (). The genus contains three living species with numerous described subspecies, all living in tundra or cold upland areas. Taxonomy and etymology The ge ...

especially in its relation to vegetation and snow-cover.

116 (1): 1–196. * Gelting, P. (1937) On ''Lithoderma fatiscens'' Areschoug and ''L. fatiscens'' Kuckuk. Especially in its relation to vegetation and snow-cover.

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 35: 240–246.

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Portrait at Arktiske Billeder
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gelting, Paul 1905 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Danish botanists Botanists active in the Arctic University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Danish ecologists Danish lichenologists