Paul Irwin Forster
Born
Paul Irwin Forster

(1961-11-03) 3 November 1961 (age 62)
Christchurch
EducationB.Sc. (Hon) UQ 1983, M.Sc. UQ 1990, D.Sc. UQ 2004
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Spermatophytes[1]
Author abbrev. (botany)P.I.Forst.
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Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of Australia and related regions.

He has worked at the Queensland Herbarium since 1991 as a plant taxonomist and has been editor of Austrobaileya since 2005. His research interests are the systematics[2] of vascular plants and reproductive and conservation biology of cycads.[3][4][5]

He has also published extensively on plant-insect interactions ( See, e.g.,[6][7][8][9]) and on the family Apocynaceae.[10][11][12][13]

The standard author abbreviation P.I.Forst. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[14]

Plants named in his honour

(from CHAH biography)[3]

Published names

Forster has published 489 botanic names as of 22 March 2024.[1] A selection of them appears below.

For a full list of all names authored by Forster, see his profile at the International Plant Names Index. See also this list of Wikipedia articles of taxa named by him.

Some publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Forster, Paul Irwin (1961-)". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  2. ^ Benjamin W. van Ee; Paul I. Forster; Paul E. Berry (2015). "Phylogenetic relationships and a new sectional classification of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia". Australian Systematic Botany. 28 (4): 219–233. doi:10.1071/SB15016. ISSN 1030-1887. Wikidata Q22712153.
  3. ^ a b CHAH Biographical notes: Paul Irwin Forster. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  4. ^ Michael A. Kipp; Eva E. Stüeken; Michelle M Gehringer; Kim Sterelny; John K Scott; Paul I Forster; Caroline A E Strömberg; Roger Buick (26 November 2019). "Exploring cycad foliage as an archive of the isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrogen". Geobiology. 18 (2): 152–166. doi:10.1111/GBI.12374. ISSN 1472-4677. PMID 31769156. Wikidata Q91458189.
  5. ^ P I Forster; B Gray (2017). "Cycas distans P.I.Forst. & B.Gray (Cycadaceae), a new species from southern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland" (PDF). Austrobaileya. 10 (1): 74–84. ISSN 0155-4131. Wikidata Q92315118. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2021.
  6. ^ P I Forster (October 1989). "New host records (family Asclepiadaceae) for 'Euploea core corinna' (W.S. Macleay) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Queensland". Australian Entomological Magazine. 16 (3): 79–80. ISSN 0311-1881. Wikidata Q100150249.
  7. ^ P I Forster (1989). "Pollination of Marsdenia fraseri (Asclepiadaceae) by Metriorrhynchus lateralis (Coleoptera: Lycidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 43 (4): 311–312. ISSN 0010-065X. JSTOR 4008751. Wikidata Q94268276.
  8. ^ P I Forster (June 1990). "'Hoya australis' subsp. 'sanae' (Bailey) K. Hill (Asclepiadaceae) as a host plant for 'Margaronia microta' Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Pyralipae)". Australian Entomological Magazine. 17 (2): 43–44. ISSN 0311-1881. Wikidata Q100150279.
  9. ^ Paul I Forster; Geoff Martin (December 1990). "Host records (family Asclepiadaceae) and distribution of 'Tirumala hamata hamata' (W.S. Macleay) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Australia". Australian Entomological Magazine. 17 (4): 131–132. ISSN 0311-1881. Wikidata Q100150298.
  10. ^ Sigrid Liede-Schumann; Sebastian J. Reuss; Ulrich Meve; Gildas Gâteblé; Tatyana Livshultz; Paul I. Forster; Livia Wanntorp; Michele Rodda (31 March 2022). "Phylogeny of Marsdenieae (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) based on chloroplast and nuclear loci, with a conspectus of the genera". Taxon. doi:10.1002/TAX.12713. ISSN 0040-0262. Wikidata Q111741553.
  11. ^ Paul I. Forster (2021). "Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands" (PDF). Austrobaileya. 11: 1–18. ISSN 0155-4131. Wikidata Q121247600. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2021.
  12. ^ Paul I Forster (1997). "Marsdenia jensenii (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), a new species from north-eastern Queensland". Austrobaileya. 5: 59–61. ISSN 0155-4131. JSTOR 41729918. Wikidata Q92300499.
  13. ^ Pi Forster (1995). "New names and combinations in Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae) from Asia and Malesia (excluding Papusia)". Australian Systematic Botany. 8 (5): 691–701. doi:10.1071/SB9950691. ISSN 1030-1887. Wikidata Q55756314.
  14. ^ International Plant Names Index.  P.I.Forst.

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