Summary
Carl Georg Johannes Petersen (24 October 1860 – 11 May 1928) was a Danish marine biologist, especially fisheries biologist. He was the first to describe communities of benthic marine invertebrates and is often considered a founder of modern fisheries research. Especially he was the first to use the Mark and recapture method which he used to estimate the size of a Plaice population. The Lincoln-Petersen method (also known as the Petersen-Lincoln index) is named after him and Frederick Charles Lincoln who first described the method in 1930. [1][2][3] [4]
Biography edit
C.G.J. Petersen studied natural history at the University of Copenhagen under professor Japetus Steenstrup. He participated in expeditions 1883-1886 and sampled the benthic fauna in Danish waters systematically. In 1889, he co-founded Dansk biologisk Station, which was a mobile laboratory in a former naval transport vessel that was put in a new location every spring and anchored for the summer. His research was primarily directed towards understanding the ecology – not the least feeding ecology – and distribution of fish species and to provide the fundament for an evidence-based fisheries policy. Nevertheless, today he is mainly remembered for his significant contribution to the development of the community concept for marine benthos. [5]
Selected scientific works edit
- Petersen, C.G.J. (ed.) Det videnskabelige Udbytte af Kanonbaaden "Hauchs" Togter i de Danske Have indenfor Skagen i Aarene 1883-1886. 5 bind og atlas, Kjøbenhavn, 1889-1893.
- Petersen, C. G. J. (1896). "The Yearly Immigration of Young Plaice Into the Limfjord From the German Sea", Report of the Danish Biological Station (1895), 6, 5–84.
References edit
- ^ Southwood, T.R.E. & Henderson, P. (2000) Ecological Methods, 3rd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
- ^ Petersen, C. G. J. (1896) "The Yearly Immigration of Young Plaice Into the Limfjord From the German Sea", Report of the Danish Biological Station (1895), 6, 5–84.
- ^ "Mark-Recapture". nau.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ I. B. J. Goudie and M. Goudie (2007). "Who Captures the Marks for the Petersen Estimator?". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society). 170 (3): 825–839. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00479.x. JSTOR 4623202.
- ^ "Petersen, Karl Georg Johannes". Nordisk familjebok. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
Further reading edit
- Spärck, R. (1932) C.G. Johannes Petersen, pp. 186–189 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages (University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen)