Kaarlo Linkola

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birth_date = 1888
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death_date = 1942
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field = botany, plant ecology
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Kaarlo Linkola (born Collan) (1888-1942) was a Finnish botanist and phytogeographer.

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. [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.] [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.] 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. [Hanski, I., 1982. Distributional ecology of anthropochorous plants in villages surrounded by forest. Annales Botanici Fennici, 19: 1-15.] [http://doi.dx.org/10.2307/3544021 Dead link|date=July 2008]

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. [Linkola, K. (1932) Über das Vorkommen von Samenkeimlinge bei Pollakanthen in den natürlichen Pflanzengesellschaften. Annales Societatis Zoologicae-Botanicae Fennicae Vanamo, 11: 150-172.]

Linkola and his students made a suite of investigations of root architecture. These studies are amongst the earliest in a still oft-neglected field. [Metsävainio, K. (1931) Untersuchungen über das Wurzelsystem der Moorpflanzen. Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo, 1: 1-422.] [Murén, A. (1934) Tutkimuksia vesikasvien juurista (Untersuchungen über die Wurzeln der Wasserpflanzen). Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo, 5: 1-56.] [Linkola, K. & A. Tiirikka (1936) Über Wurzelsysteme und Wurzelausbreitung der Wiesenpflanzen auf verschiedene Wiesenstandorten. Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicæ-Botanicæ Fennicæ Vanamo, 6: 1-207.] [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.] 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.

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* [http://web.abo.fi/~bwikgren/biologer/LinkolaK.htm Bo-Jungar Wikgren: "Pages of the History of Biology in Finland"]

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