Gaston Bonnier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gaston Bonnier

French botanist

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1853

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 30-Dec-1922

Profession: biologist, pedagogue, university teacher, botanist, entomologist, ecologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Gaston Bonnier

  • Gaston Eugène Marie Bonnier (9 April 1853 in Paris – 2 January 1922) was a French botanist and plant ecologist.
  • Bonnier first studied at École Normale SupĂ©rieure in Paris from 1873 to 1876.
  • Together with Charles Flahault, he studied at Uppsala University in 1878.
  • They published two articles about their impressions: Observations sur la flore cryptogamique de la Scandinavie Sur la distribution des vĂ©gĂ©taux dans la region moyenne de la presqu’ile Scandinave (both with Charles Flahault 1879)He became assistant professor, later full professor, of botany at Sorbonne in 1887 and, in addition, he founded a Plant Biological Laboratory in Fontainebleau in 1889.
  • The same year, he co-founded the scientific journal Revue GĂ©nĂ©rale de Botanique, which he edited until 1922.
  • He was an early exponent of experimental plant ecology.
  • He transplanted alpine plants between the Alps and Pyrenees and the research garden in Fontainebleau.
  • The results were published in: Cultures expĂ©rimentales dans les Alpes et les PyrĂ©nĂ©es.
  • Revue GĂ©nĂ©rale de Botanique 2 (1890): 513–546. Les plantes arctiques comparĂ©es aux mĂŞmes espèces des Alpes et des PyrĂ©nĂ©es (1894). Nouvelles observations sur les cultures expĂ©rimentales Ă  diverses altitudes et cultures par semis.
  • Revue GĂ©nĂ©rale de Botanique 22 (1920): 305–326.He authored several floras of France, such as Nouvelle flore du Nord de la France et de la Belgique pour la dĂ©termination facile des plantes sans mots techniques.
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  • Tableaux synoptiques des plantes vasculaires de la flore de la France.
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  • Dupont, Paris, 1894 (With Georges de Layens (1834–1897)). Vol.
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  • Nouvelle Flore des mousses et des hĂ©patiques with Charles Isidore Douin (1858–1944).
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  • Dupont, Paris, 1895. Vol.
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  • Nouvelle Flore des champignons with Julien NoĂ«l Costantin (1857–1936) and LĂ©on Jean Marie Dufour (1862–1942).
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  • Dupont, Paris, 1895. Flore complète illustrĂ©e de France, Suisse et Belgique.
  • (1911). Notable students of Gaston Bonnier include: Louis Emberger Paul Jaccard

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