The Komarov Botanical Institute; 250 years of Russian research

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 54: Succession, Community, and Continuum

“…Komarov was a very prominent botanist, honored by the naming for him of a botanical institute (Shetler 1967 Ramensky's earliest landmark paper was published in Russian in 1924, with excerpts translated later into English (McIntosh 1983). This was a case of simultaneous discovery in science, as no evidence indicates that either Gleason or Ramensky was influenced by the other's ideas.…”

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 53: Organizing Ecologists before 1946

“…A university, botanic garden, and botanic museum were established there by Peter the Great in the early 1700s. Early botanical research in these institutions was mostly in plant taxonomy, and some in phytogeography—that is, an inventory of Russia's botanical resources (Shetler 1967:71, Vucinich 1984:14, Egerton 2008). Since these three institutions in St. Petersburg were separate, there was some duplication in their research and their collections.…”

“…After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Leningrad botanical institutions were left alone until 1931, when the botanic garden and museum were merged into a botanic institute. Its first elected director, 1931–1936, was a geobotanist‐ecologist, Boris A. Keller (1874–1945), who in 1936 became director of the Principal Botanic Garden of the USSR in Moscow (Shetler 1967:72–73). In 1937, the Botanical Institute produced a Map of the Vegetation of the USSR, and in 1939 a larger‐scale version of it (Shetler 1967:94–95).…”

“…Its first elected director, 1931–1936, was a geobotanist‐ecologist, Boris A. Keller (1874–1945), who in 1936 became director of the Principal Botanic Garden of the USSR in Moscow (Shetler 1967:72–73). In 1937, the Botanical Institute produced a Map of the Vegetation of the USSR, and in 1939 a larger‐scale version of it (Shetler 1967:94–95). The institute began publishing Vegetation of USSR (two volumes, 1938two volumes, 1940), which was never completed because of World War II.…”

MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF AUREOPHYCUS ALEUTICUS GEN. ET SP. NOV. (LAMINARIALES, PHAEOPHYCEAE) FROM THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS1

“…The Aleutian Islands were first visited by Steller during the Bering expedition that discovered Alaska in 1741, but Steller’s collections did not survive the trip from Kamchatka to St. Petersburg (Shetler 1967). Later, scientists affiliated with various Russian expeditions visited the islands, especially the area around Unalaska Bay on Unalaska Island in the eastern Aleutians; records from these collections were published primarily by Postels and Ruprecht (1840) and Ruprecht (1850).…”