Paul Gelting
Paul Emil Elliot Gelting was a Danish ecologist, botanist and lichenologist. He was associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and particularly active in Greenland.
Gelting participated in the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland 1931-34 led by Lauge Koch and the expedition 1938–39 to Northeast Greenland led by Eigil Knuth. From 1946 to 1954, he headed the Arctic Station Qeqertarsuaq, which had been founded by Morten Pedersen Porsild.
Gelting is honoured in the name of the fungal genus Geltingia.
Selected scientific bibliography
- Gelting, P. Studies on the vascular plants of East Greenland between Franz Josef Fjord and Dove Bay. Meddelelser om Grønland 101: 1–340.
- Gelting, P. Studies on the food of the East Greenland ptarmigan especially in its relation to vegetation and snow-cover. Meddelelser om Grønland 116 : 1–196.
- Gelting, P. On Lithoderma fatiscens Areschoug and L. fatiscens Kuckuk. Especially in its relation to vegetation and snow-cover. Meddelelser om Grønland 116 : 1–196.
- Gelting, P. Karplanternes vertikale Udbredelse i Nordøstgrønland i Forhold til Isfremstød og Epirogenese. Nordiska (19. skandinaviska) naturforskarmötet i Helsingfors den 11-15 augusti 1936: 3 pp.
- Gelting, P. Über pleistozäne Pflanzenrefugien in Grønland. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Schaffhausen 17: 74–96.
- Gelting, P. Parmelia subaurifera Nyl. and P. fraudans Nyl. in Greenland. Friesia 35: 240–246.