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Brunig, Eberhard Friedrich (Wilhelm Otto)

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

 

Born: 1926, Schöningen near Brunschweig, Germany.

 

career:

Was educated in forestry in Germany and Oxford (Ph.D. University of Göttingen 1953). After a short period of service in Germany (Hessen), he was appointed as Assistant Conservator of Forests in the British Colonial Service in March 1954; stationed at Kuching, Sarawak, from that date. In 1964 he lived in Hamburg, Germany, working on a thesis on Kerangas vegetation. Author of several papers on the vegetation of Sarawak.1

 

Collecting localities:

NW. Borneo. From June 1954 onwards. In the 1st and 2nd Division of Sarawak, especially on poor podsolized soils. Other divisions will have their turn later. Merurong Plateau.1

 

collections:

Borneo plants in Herb. Sarawak [SAR], Sing. [SING], Kepong [KEP], etc. Numbered in the Sarawak Forest Dept series.

 

literature:

(1) A.o. ‘The Merurong Plateau’ (Borneo Terr. For. Bull. 1, 1959, p. 1-9); ‘A Guide and Introduction to the Vegetation of the Kerangas Forests and the Padangs of the Bako National Park, Sarawak’ (Symp. Ecol. Res. Humid Trop. Veget. Kuching 1963, 1965, p. 289-318, 1 fig., 1 map, 2 tab.); ‘Some observations on the status of Heath Forests in Sarawak and Brunei’ (Proc. Symp. Recent Adv. Trop. Ecol. Varanasi 2, 1968, p. 451-457, 4 fig., 3 tab.); ‘Der Heidewald von Sarawak und Brunei’ (Mitt. Bundesforsch. f. Forst- u. Holzwirtsch. Reinbek bei Hamburg no 68, Sept. 1968, 431 pp., roneo, with fig., maps, etc.); ‘The Classification of Forest Types in Sarawak’ (Mal. For. 32, 1969, p. 143-179, 7 fig., 2 tab.); etc.