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Dr. Karsten Meyer
Office:
Institut für Spezielle Botanik
University of Mainz
55099 Mainz
Germany
Home:
Nahestrasse 2, App. 205
55118 Mainz
Germany
e-mail: k.meyer@web.de
tel & fax: +49-(0)6131-60 20 56
My Dissertation
The aim of my dissertation (German summary) was a revision of the genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae). This included a reconstruction of the phylogenetic relationships within related paleotropical genera. The dataset comprised morphological, anatomical and molecular characters. For detailed information, please have a look at my Melastoma page.
Publications
Biologische Schutzgemeinschaft Göttingen, Arbeitskreis Botanik (1994): Neuer Fundort des Niederliegenden Salztäschels, Hymenolobus procumbens Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray, in Niedersachsen. Floristische Rundbriefe 28: 42-43.
Meyer, K. & F. H. Hellwig (1996). Untersuchungen zur Rhizommorphologie und Wachstumsstrategie von Geophyten des Göttinger Waldes. Tuexenia 16, 65-71.
Meyer, K. & F. H. Hellwig (1997). Annual cycle of starch content in rhizomes of the forest geophytes Anemone nemorosa and Aegopodium podagraria. Flora 192, 335-339.
Meyer, K., G. Clausing & S. S. Renner (1997). Plasticity of fruit characters in Asiatic Melastomataceae. In: Smets, E., Ronse Decraene, L. P. & Robbrecht, E. (eds.): 13th Symposium Morphology, Anatomy and Systematics - Progr. and Abstracts. Scripta Botanica Belgica 15, 116.
Renner, S. S., G. Clausing, N. Cellinese & K. Meyer (in press). Melastomataceae. In: Smitinand, T. & Larsen, K. (eds.): Flora of Thailand.
Clausing, G., K. Meyer & S. S. Renner (in press). Fruit characters in the Melastomataceae, an analysis of their morphological and evolutionary plasticity. Bot. J. Linnean Soc. London.
Meyer, K. (in press). Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae). Blumea.
Some Personal Information
1969 I was born in Göttingen, a small but nice town in the south of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). There I went to school, and 1988 I started to study biology at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen. After getting my diploma in 1995 I moved to Mainz for my dissertation which I finished in September 1999.
Since March 2000 I am attending a SAP-course (Junior Consultant SAP R/3 Process Industry) at the GIB, Mainz, that will end in December 2000.
Hobbies
Among several hobbies such as photography and aquaristics, I spend most time in reading books (preferrably popular sciences and science fiction/fantasy) and with cycling. Therefore I am active in our local ADFC-group to promote cyclist-friendly politics.
