Viktor Masing

{{Short description|Estonian botanist and ecologist}}

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Viktor Masing (11 April 1925, Tartu – 18 March 2001) was an Estonian botanist and ecologist. He was born in Tartu. He became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1993.

He was a specialist in telmatology, and an organizer of wetland protection.

His wife, Linda Poots, was a fellow scientist and nature writer.{{Cite book |last=Publications |first=Europa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_FROqap0F8C&pg=PA513 |title=The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory 2001 |date=2001 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-1-85743-089-9 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Laanes |first=Helgi |date=2000 |title=Linda Poots 70 |url=https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/tyrtar/article/view/12746 |journal=Tartu Ülikooli Raamatukogu aastaraamat |language=en |volume=5 |issn=1736-9363}} His son, Matti Masing, is a renowned nature scientist, and one of Europe's foremost experts on bats.