A. W. Kuchler

{{short description|German-American naturalist (1907–1999)}}

August William Kuchler (born August Wilhelm Küchler; 26 July 1907 – 17 June 1999) was a German-born American geographer and naturalist who is noted for developing a plant association system that has become widely used in the United States.A. Watkins Some of this database has been digitized for integration into GIS mapping systems.A. W. Kuchler, 1996 Kuchler received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Munich in 1935.[http://www.aag.org/cs/honors Honors of the Association of American Geographers] In 1978, he received the Association of American Geographers' Honors award. He is the author of the book Vegetation Mapping.[https://archive.org/details/vegetationmappin0000unse Vegetation mapping by Küchler, A. W. (August William), 1907-1999 Internet Archive]