Hans Runemark

P. Hans B. Runemark (born January 7, 1927 in Chicago, U.S.A.)[1] is a Swedish botanist and lichenologist, emeritus professor at Lund University.

He graduated 1956 at Lund University.[2] He became professor of botany at Lund University 1958. He studied the flora of the Aegean Islands in Greece, became interested in island endemics.[3] and used the plants in the archipelago as a laboratory to study evolutionary processes in small plant populations.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Vem Är Vem - Skåne, Halland, Blekinge (ed. Åke Davidsson), 2nd edn. Bokförlaget Vem är vem, Stockholm, 1966; p. 714
  2. ↑ Runemark, Hans (1956). Studies in Rhizocarpon, vol. I: Taxonomy of the yellow species in Europe, vol. II: Distribution and ecology of the yellow species in Europe (PhD thesis). Botaniska Notiser Supplement 2 (1-2) (Stockholm). pp. 1–152 + 1–150.
  3. ↑ Runemark, Hans (1968). The plant geography of the central Aegean. Feddes Repertorium 81 (1-5). pp. 229–231. doi:10.1002/fedr.19700810119.
  4. ↑ Runemark, Hans (1970). "The Role of Small Populations for the Differentiation in Plants". Taxon 19 (2): 196–201. JSTOR 1217954.
  5. ↑ "Author Query for 'Runemark'". International Plant Names Index.