Paul Irwin Forster
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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.
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Born | Paul Irwin Forster (1961-11-03) 3 November 1961 (age 62) |
Education | B.Sc. (Hon) UQ 1983, M.Sc. UQ 1990, D.Sc. UQ 2004 |
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Fields | Botany, Spermatophytes[1] |
Author abbrev. (botany) | P.I.Forst. |
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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]