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Place of Birth: Växjö, Kronoberg County, Sweden
About Nils Malmer
- Per Nils Johan Alfred Malmer (May 25, 1928 in Växjö – April 17, 2018) was a Swedish plant ecologist. Malmer graduated (1957) and took his PhD (1962) in plant ecology (Studies on mire vegetation in the archaean area of southwestern Götaland (South Sweden)) at Lund University.
- He had then already been a research assistant in limnology 1948-1950, teaching assistant in systematic botany and plant ecology 1953-1959 and assistant professor of plant ecology 1959-1963.
- From 1963-1993, he was professor of plant ecology at Lund University. He was Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Oikos 1989-2004. He served as vicedean at the Faculty of Science at Lund University 1974-1989.
- He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (member number 1255). His research has focused on carbon cycling in boreal and Arctic peatland.
- This research has included studies of past and present productivity and decay losses in Sphagnum-dominated mires. He died on April 17, 2018, aged 89.
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