Paul Emil Elliot Gelting (30 March 1905 – 18 February 1964) was a
Danish ecologist,
botanist
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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
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Qeqertarsuaq, 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 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 35: 240–246.
References
External links
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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