August William Kuchler (born ''August Wilhelm Küchler''; 1907–1999) was a German-born
American geographer
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...
and naturalist who is noted for developing a
plant association
A plant community is a collection or association of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighboring patches of different vegetation types. The components of each plant ...
system in widespread use in the United States. Some of this database has become digitized for integration into
GIS mapping systems. Kuchler received his Ph.D. in geography from
University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
in 1935. In 1978, he received the
Association of American Geographers
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' Honors award. He is the publisher of the book ''Vegetation Mapping''
Honors of the Association of American Geographers
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See also
* Biome
A biome () is a biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to the physical environment in which they are found and a shared regional climate. Biomes may span more than one continent. Biome is a broader ...
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Ann Watkins, ''Terrestrial vegetation of the U.S. by state''
A.W. Kuchler (1996) ''Potential Natural Vegetation for California'', California State Resources Agency
1999 deaths
1907 births
American geographers
University of Kansas faculty
20th-century geographers
German emigrants to the United States
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