August William Kuchler (born ''August Wilhelm Küchler''; 26 July 1907 – 17 June 1999) was a German-born American

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and naturalist who is noted for developing a plant association system that has become widely used in the United States. Some of this database has been digitized for integration into GIS mapping systems. Kuchler received his Ph.D. in geography from the

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in 1935.Honors of the Association of American Geographers
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' Honors award. He is the author of the book ''Vegetation Mapping''.Vegetation mapping by Küchler, A. W. (August William), 1907-1999 Internet Archive
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Kuchler, A(ugust) William [Wilhelm
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Ann Watkins, ''Terrestrial vegetation of the U.S. by state''

A.W. Kuchler (1996) ''Potential Natural Vegetation for California'', California State Resources Agency
1999 deaths 1907 births University of Kansas faculty 20th-century American geographers German emigrants to the United States {{ecology-stub

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