Ingvar Kärnefelt

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Ingvar Kärnefelt
Born1944
NationalitySwedish
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
Institutions
University of Lund
Author abbrev. (botany)Kärnefelt [1]

Jan Eric Ingvar Kärnefelt (born 1944) is a Swedish

lichenologist
.

Early life and education

Kärnefelt was born in

doctoral dissertation in botany at Lund University during a 5-year period by the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.[2]

Career

Kärnefelt became associate professor at the Department of Systematic Botany at the University of Lund, where he mentored several PhD students.[2]

Kärnefelt's research interests include the Parmeliaceae and the Teloschistaceae, both families in which he described several taxa new to science. In 1987 he started a project regarding the status of threatened lichens in southern Sweden. This project, which was extended until 1995, provided funding for his PhD students and resulted in the publication of a highly cited book in 1997.[2] Kärnefelt became director of the Botaniska trädgården in 1994, and Professor in 2000. He was able to secure funding from the Swedish Species Information Centre [sv] to support digitization and curation of collections in Swedish biological museums.[2]

Kärnefelt was the president of the International Association for Lichenology from 1992–1996, and later elected Honorary President of this association for life. In the period 1997–2005 he was the editor-in-chief for the journal of the Nordic Lichen Society, Graphis Scripta, and has been on the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Botany since 2001.[2]

Recognition

He had an entire issue of The Lichenologist (volume 41, issue 5, 2009) dedicated to him, with articles written by former students.

Eponymy

Four genera and several species have been named to honour Kärnefelt. These include:[3] Ikaeria S.Y.Kondr., Upreti & Hur (2017);[4] Ingvariella Guderley & Lumbsch (1997); Kaernefeltia A.Thell & Goward (1996); Kaernefia S.Y.Kondr., Elix, A.Thell & Hur (2013); Caloplaca kaernefeltii S.Y.Kondr., Elix & A.Thell (2009), Catapyrenium kaernefeltii Breuss (1993); Hypotrachyna kaernefeltii Divakar, A.Crespo, Sipman, Elix & Lumbsch (2013); Placomaronea kaernefeltii M.Westb., Frödén & Wedin (2009); and Xanthoria kaernefeltii S.Y.Kondr., D.J.Galloway & Goward (2010).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kärnefelt, Ingvar (1944–)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1017/S0024282909990181
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  3. ^ Hertel, Hannes; Gärtner, Georg; Lőkös, László (2017). "Forscher an Österreichs Flechtenflora" [Investigators of Austria's lichen flora] (PDF). Stapfia (in German). 104 (2): 1–211 (see p. 72).
  4. hdl:10447/414429
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