# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-keller
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:35.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-keller"
name: "Boris Keller"
slug: "boris-keller"
description: "Boris Aleksandrovich Keller was a Russian and Soviet biologist and a pioneer of plant ecology in the Soviet Union. Specializing in the vegetational ecology of the semi-arid steppe regions, he introduced the idea of vegetation complexes which are now termed as synusia in plant ecology. He served as the first director of the Komarov Botanical Institute."
tagline: "Russian botanist (1874–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michurin_and_Keller_1928.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-08-28"
deathDate: "1945-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.28
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.60468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Keller"
    title: "Boris Keller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Келлер, Борис Александрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Aleksandrovich_Keller"
    title: "Boris Aleksandrovich Keller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Keller"
    title: "Boris Keller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Борис Келлер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4219109"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump