Patricia G. Gensel

Patricia G. Gensel
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Patricia Gabbey Gensel (born March 18, 1944) is an American botanist and paleobotanist.[1][2]

Life

She was born in Buffalo, New York, she attended Hope College, earning a B.A. in 1966.[3] She obtained her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Connecticut. She would go on to work at the biology department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is noted for researching 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]

The standard author abbreviation Gensel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

Books

  • Gensel, Patricia G.; Andrews, Henry N., eds. (1984). Plant Life in the Devonian. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0030620023.
  • Pierre-André Bourque, Sylvain Desbiens, Patricia G. Gensel. 005 Silurian-Devonian Biota and Paleoenvironments of Gaspé Peninsula and Northern New Brunswick. Ed. North American Paleontological Convention, 143 pp.
  • Gensel, Patricia G.; Edwards, Dianne, eds. (2000). Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231111614.

References

  1. ↑ "HUH - Databases - Botanist Search".
  2. ↑ "Patricia G. Gensel".
  3. ↑ "Gensel, Patricia Gabbey". Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984. Marquis Who's Who. 1983. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-8379-0413-9.
  4. ↑ "Labs - Patricia G. Gensel".
  5. ↑ "Botany.org (pdf)" (PDF). botany.org.
  6. ↑ "The Species of the Early Carboniferous Fossil Plant Genus Genselia". JSTOR 2474900. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  7. ↑ IPNI.  Gensel.


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