Kaarlo Linkola

Kaarlo Linkola (surname until 1906 Collan; 1888–1942) was a Finnish botanist and phytogeographer.

Kaarlo Linkola
Rector Kaarlo Linkola
Born6 June 1888
Joensuu, Finland
Died26 April 1942
Helsinki, Finland
NationalityFinland
Alma materUniversity of Helsinki
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany, plant ecology
InstitutionsUniversity of Helsinki
Author abbrev. (botany)Linkola

Linkola was docent of botany at Helsinki University 1919–1922. He was professor of botany at University of Turku from 1922, and at Helsinki University from 1925 (in a newly established second chair of botany). He was head of the botanical institute from 1926, dean of the Faculty of Science for two periods (1930–1933 and 1936–1938) and rector of Helsinki University 1938–1941.

Linkola's doctoral dissertation (1916) dealt with the impact of culture of vegetation in Southern Karelia.[1][2] Much later Ilkka Hanski used Linkola's data on plants associated with villages isolated in the boreal forest landscape matrix to illustrate his core-satellite hypothesis.[3][4]

Linkola made a unique contribution to the understanding of regeneration in herbaceous plant communities in studying the natural occurrence of seedlings in meadows and on cliffs.[5]

Linkola and his students made a suite of investigations of root architecture. These studies are amongst the earliest in a still oft-neglected field.[6][7][8][9] The last of these reports was published quite a while after Linkola's early death.

Kaarlo Linkola was member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He co-founded the Finnish Union for Nature Protection and was its first chairman. He was father of Pentti Linkola. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.[10]

Sources

Selected scientific works
  1. Linkola, K (1916). "Studien über den Einfluss der Kultur auf die Flora in den Gegenden nördlich vom Ladoga-See. I. Allgemeiner Teil". Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 45 (1): 1–429.
  2. Linkola, K (1916). "Studien über den Einfluss der Kultur auf die Flora in den Gegenden nördlich vom Ladoga-See. II. Spezieller Teil". Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 45 (2): 1–491.
  3. Hanski, I (1982). "Distributional ecology of anthropochorous plants in villages surrounded by forest". Annales Botanici Fennici. 19: 1–15.
  4. Hanski, I (1982). "Dynamics of regional distribution: the core and satellite species hypothesis". Oikos. 38 (2): 210–215. doi:10.2307/3544021. JSTOR 3544021.
  5. Linkola, K (1932). "Über das Vorkommen von Samenkeimlinge bei Pollakanthen in den natürlichen Pflanzengesellschaften". Annales Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae Vanamo. 11: 150–172.
  6. Metsävainio, K (1931). "Untersuchungen über das Wurzelsystem der Moorpflanzen". Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo. 1: 1–422.
  7. Murén, A (1934). "Tutkimuksia vesikasvien juurista (Untersuchungen über die Wurzeln der Wasserpflanzen)". Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo. 5: 1–56.
  8. Linkola, K.; Tiirikka, A. (1936). "Über Wurzelsysteme und Wurzelausbreitung der Wiesenpflanzen auf verschiedene Wiesenstandorten". Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo. 6: 1–207.
  9. Kivenheimo, V. J. (1947). "Untersuchungen über die Wurzelsysteme der Samenpflanzen in der Bodenvegetation der Wälder Finnlands". Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo. 22: 1–180.
  10. "Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia" (PDF). Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  11. IPNI.  Linkola.
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