Patricia G. Gensel
Patricia G. Gensel | |
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Born | Patricia Gabbey Gensel March 18, 1944 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Hope College |
Occupation(s) | botanist, paleobotanist |
Known for | research on Paleozoic plants |
Patricia Gabbey Gensel (born March 18, 1944) is an American botanist and paleobotanist.[1][2]
Life
Gensel was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, earning a B.A. in 1966.[3] She obtained her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Connecticut. As of 2011, Gensel was on the faculty of the Biology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2]
Gensel is noted for her research on Paleozoic plants.[4] She served as president of the Botanical Society of America for 2000–2001.[5] Gensel is the namesake of the genus, Genselia Knaus, which consists of four species of early Carboniferous plants found in the Pocono and Price Formations in the Appalachian Basin of North America.[6]
Publications
- Gensel, Patricia G.; Andrews, Henry N., eds. (1984). Plant Life in the Devonian. New York: Praeger. ISBN 978-0030620027.
- Bourque, Pierre-André; Desbiens, Sylvain; Gensel, Patricia G., eds. (2005). Silurian-Devonian biota and paleoenvironments of Gaspé Peninsula and northern New Brunswick. Halifax, Nova Scotia: North American Paleontological Convention.
- Gensel, Patricia G.; Edwards, Dianne, eds. (2000). Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231111614.
References
- ^ "HUH - Databases - Botanist Search".
- ^ a b "Patricia G. Gensel". April 28, 2011.
- ^ "Gensel, Patricia Gabbey". Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984. Marquis Who's Who. 1983. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-8379-0413-9.
- ^ "Labs - Patricia G. Gensel". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
- ^ "Botany.org (pdf)" (PDF). botany.org.
- ^ Knaus, Margaret Jane (1995). "The Species of the Early Carboniferous Fossil Plant Genus Genselia". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 156 (1): 61–92. doi:10.1086/297230. JSTOR 2474900. S2CID 83629753.
The standard author abbreviation Gensel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
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