1. Alvar Palmgren was a Finnish botanist and plant ecologist.
10 Facts About Alvar Palmgren
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Alvar Palmgren became docent of botany at the University of Helsinki 1916 and professor of botany at the same university in 1928.
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Alvar Palmgren worked as a systematic botanist with microspecies of Taraxacum, Hieracium and other genera.
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Alvar Palmgren supported the ideas of Henry Gleason on the individualistic behaviour of species in community assembly already from the 1920s.
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Alvar Palmgren wrote early accounts on the role of isolation and stochastic events in the distribution of species, while his contemporary biology was largely deterministic.
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Alvar Palmgren had observed a decrease in species richness from west to east in Aland, his main geographical scene of scientific inquiry.
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Alvar Palmgren interpreted this as an effect of isolation from the Swedish mainland to the west, and the associated lower species-to-genus ratio as a random sampling effect.
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Alvar Palmgren was on the board of Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica from 1916.
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Alvar Palmgren initiated and led a movement among young Finnish men to refuse conscription service in the Russian Imperial Army.
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Alvar Palmgren was the father of the zoologist Pontus Palmgren.