Axel Dalberg Poulsen
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Axel Dalberg Poulsen (7 April 1961, Holbaek, Denmark) is a Danish botanist, taxonomist and naturalist. His research interests are the flora of Denmark and its surroundings, taxonomy and evolution of gingers in a wide sense (families in the Ginger Order Zingiberales).[1][2]
In 1993, he obtained a doctorate degree in tropical biology from Aarhus University; defending the thesis "Investigations of herbs in two humid tropical lowlands forests". His supervisor was Dr. Iván Nielsen.[3]
He focuses on the ginger family Zingiberaceae. He is a leading expert on the genus Etlingera.[4]
He is a researcher at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[5]
In 2016, as part of the Flora of Nepal Project, at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, he was sponsored to participate in an expedition to collect specimens in eastern Nepal and train the staff of the National Herbarium of Nepal to collect and preserve material from Zingiberales. Support from the Fund Expedition Peter Davis of the University of Edinburgh to carry out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea as part of the ongoing project "Gingers of Papua New Guinea".[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Henrik Ærenlund Pedersen". Archived from the original on 8 July 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ "Axel Dalberg Poulsen and Mark Hughes: Headline-grabbing Titan helps, but the plants that sustain us need attention too". www.scotsman.com.
- ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae - Axel Dalberg Poulsen". dalbergpoulsen.com.
- ^ Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden. "Tropical Diversity". www.rbge.org.uk.
- ^ http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/research_copenhagen/nhm/?id=114872&vis=medarbejder[dead link]
- ^ International Plant Names Index. A.D.Poulsen.
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