‘Reindeer Botanist’ and the Onset of Canadian Arctic Ecology (In memory of the 40th anniversary of A. E. Porsild’s passing)

Josef Svoboda

doi:10.5817/CPR2017-2-23

‘Reindeer Botanist’ and the Onset of Canadian Arctic Ecology (In memory of the 40th anniversary of A. E. Porsild’s passing)

Vol.7,No.2(2017)

Josef Svoboda

https://doi.org/10.5817/CPR2017-2-23

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Abstract

Alf Erling Porsild, a field naturalist by birth and life-long practice was a pioneer, greater than life Canadian Arctic eco-botanist. And that before the term ‘ecology’ became a household name among the Canadian field biologists.

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