Tyge W. Böcher

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Professor Böcher guiding students on a rainy excursion
Professor Böcher guiding students on a rainy excursion

Tyge Wittrock Böcher (1909-1983) was a Danish botanist, evolutionary biologist, plant ecologist and phytogeographer.

Professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1954 to 1979. Work in Greenland, Denmark, European mountainous regions and Argentina. Works on vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and algae. Works on cytology, anatomy, ecology and evolution of plant species, and on the ecology of plant populations and plant communities. Co-founder of Flora Europaea. The genus Boechera Á.Löve & D.Löve is named after him.

The standard author abbreviation Böcher is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

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[edit] Scientific works by T.W. Böcher

[edit] 1932-1935

  • Om en måde til undersøgelse af konstans, skudtæthed og homogenitet (Eng. summ. On a method for investigating constancy, shoots density and homogenity). Botanisk Tidsskrift 43: 278-304. 1935.

[edit] 1936-1939

[edit] 1940-1944

[edit] 1945-1949

  • Ochromonas viridis sp.n., a green flagellate belonging to Chrysomonadinae. Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 108: 233-238. 1945.
  • Pseudanabaena biceps, a new sapropelic species from bottom mud. Botaniska Notiser 1946: 281-284. 1946
  • Plant geography and plant sociology. In: The Humanities and Sciences in Denmark during the Second World War; pp. 309-312. Copenhagen 1948.

[edit] 1950-1954

  • A. Noe-Nygaard, Chr. Vibe T.W. Böcher & E. Holtved. Notes on Danish scientific work since 1939. Arctic 4: 50-56. 1951. [3]
  • Botanical investigations in South West Greenland, 1946. Arctic 4 (1): 46-49. 1951. [4]
  • A study of the circumpolar Carex heleonastes-amblyorhyncha complex. Acta Arctica 5: 1-31. 1952.-

[edit] 1955-1959

  • Böcher, T.W., Holmen, K. & Dunbar, M.J. Recent biological research in Greenland. Arctic 7 (3-4): 284-295. 1955. [7]
  • & K. Holmen & K. Jakobsen. Grønlands flora (ill. by Ingeborg Frederiksen). København. 313 pp. 1957. (2nd edn 1966; Engl. edn. ‘’’Flora of Greenland’’’ 1968; 3rd edn 1978).
  • Chromosome studies in the Ranunculus polyanthemus complex. Botanisk Tidsskrift 54: 160-166. 1958.
  • The evolution of Arctic and montane plant taxa in the light of chromosome studies and comparative cultivations. Proc. 9. Internat. Bot. Congr. II A: 3-4. 1959.

[edit] 1960-1964

  • Infraspecific differentiation (Coreferate). Planta Medica 8: 224-225. 1960.
  • Floristic and taxonomic activity in Denmark since 1945 essential to the work of Flora Europaea. Floristic Reports, Flora Europaea Genova Symposium 21-28 May, 1961: 1-8, 1961.
  • The development of cytotaxonomy since Darwin's time. In: A Darwin Centenary”, P.J. Wanstall (ed.): 26-43. 1961.
  • The evolution of Arctic and montane plant taxa in the light of chromosome studies and comparative cultivations. In: Recent Advances in Botany (Toronto): 925-928. 1961.
  • Floristic and taxonomic activity in Denmark between 1945 and 1960. Webbia 18: 165-172. 1963.
  • The study of ecotypical variation in relation to experimental morphology. (Symposium on biosystematics, Montreal 1962). Regnum Vegetabile 27: 10-16. 1963.
  • Phytogeography of Greenland in the light of recent investigations. In: "North Atlantic biota and their history" (Red. Á.& D. Löve), Oxford: 285-295. 1963.
  • & J.P. Hjerting. Utilization of seeds from botanical gardens in biosystematic studies. Taxon 13: 95-98. 1964. [10]

[edit] 1965-1969

Keywords: Brassicaceae

  • Continuous variation and taxonomy. Taxon 16: 225-258. 1967. [11]
  • & O.B. Lyshede. Anatomical studies in xerophytic apophyllous plants. l. Monttea aphylla, Bulnesia retama and Bredemeyera colletioides. Biologiske Skrifter / Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 16, 3: 1-44. 1968.

[edit] 1970-1974

  • The present status of biosystematics. Taxon 19: 3-5. 1970. [12]
  • Anatomical studies in Cotton-Thorn, Tetradymia axillaris A. Nels. Naturaliste Canad. 98: 225-250. 1971.
  • Variational pattern in Clinopodium vulgare L. In: Evolution in Plants - Symposium held 1-4 September, 1970 at Tihany, Hungary, 12: 23-29. 1972.
  • Evolutionary problems in the Arctic flora. In: “Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Evolution" (edit. by D.H. Valentine), London; pp. 101--113. 1972.
  • Leaf anatomy in Sporobolus rigens (Tr.) Desv. (Gramineae). Botaniska Notiser 124: 344-360, 1972.
  • & O.B. Lyshede. Anatomical studies on xerophytic apophyllous plants. II. Additional species from South American shrub steppes. Biologiske Skrifter / Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 18, 4: 1-137. 1972.
  • Interspecific hybridization in Braya (Cruciferae). Annales Botanici Fennici 10: 57-65. 1973.
    • Keywords: Braya humilis, Braya purpurascens, speciation

[edit] 1975-1979

  • Phytogeography of Greenland (Survey and methods). In: B.A. Yurtsev, The Arctic f1oristic region, papers read at the symposium "Floristic delimitation and subdivision of the Arctic", 8 Ju1y, 1975 in Leningrad; 127-142. 1978.

[edit] 1980-1983

[edit] Works on T. W. Böcher

  • Löve, Áskell (1984) In Memoriam: Tyge W. Böcher, 1909-1983. Arctic and Alpine Research, 16 (1): 119-120.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 
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