Hildur Krog: Difference between revisions

She was born in [[Modum]]. She took the [[dr.philos.]] degree in 1968 with a thesis on [[Alaska]]n [[lichen]]s, was hired as a curator at the Botanical Museum of Oslo in 1971 and served as professor at the [[University of Oslo]] from 1987 to 1992.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hildur Krog|encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/Hildur_Krog|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 November 2012}}</ref> For 15 year from 1969 she collaborated with the British amateur lichenologist [[Thomas Douglas Victor Swinscow|Dougal Swinscow]] to study the macrolichen flora of East Africa. They undertook field collections as well as characterisation and revision of the limited existing lichen knowledge of the region, presented in 33 scientific publications and a book ''The Macrolichens of East Africa'', British Museum (Natural History) in 1988.<ref name="James1993-obit">{{cite journal |last1=James |first1=Peter W. |title=OBITUARY THOMAS DOUGLAS (DOUGAL) VICTOR SWINSCOW 10 July 1917-24 September 1992 |journal=The Lichenologist |date=1993 |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=443–450 |doi=10.1006/lich.1993.1008 |s2cid=85577246 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Several lichen species are named in her honour, including ''[[Krogia]]'' which a [[genus]] of [[corticolous lichen]]s in the family [[Ramalinaceae]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kistenich |first1=Sonja |last2=Rikkinen |first2=Jouko K. |last3=Thüs |first3=Holger |last4=Vairappan |first4=Charles S. |last5=Wolseley |first5=Patricia A. |last6=Timdal |first6=Einar |title=Three new species of ''Krogia'' (Ramalinaceae, lichenised Ascomycota) from the Paleotropics |journal=MycoKeys |publisher=Pensoft Publishers |volume=40 |year=2018 |issue=40 |doi=10.3897/mycokeys.40.26025 |pages=69–88|pmid=30294209 |pmc=6170524 |s2cid=52925537 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Also lichen species such as; ''[[Leptogium krogiae]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bjelland |first1=Torbjørg |last2=Bendiksby |first2=Mika |last3=Frisch |first3=Andreas |title=Geographically disjunct phylogenetic lineages in ''Leptogium hibernicum'' reveal ''Leptogium krogiae'' sp. nov. from East Africa |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=49 |issue=3 |year=2017 |pages=239–251 |doi=10.1017/S0024282916000645 |s2cid=90234682 }}</ref> ''[[Dictyonema krogiae]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lücking |first1=Robert |last2=Timdal |first2=Einar |title=New species of ''Dictyonema'' and ''Cyphellostereum'' (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from tropical Africa and the Indian Ocean, dedicated to the late Hildur Krog |journal=Willdenowia |volume=46 |issue=1 |year=2016 |pages=191–199 |doi=10.3372/wi.46.46115|doi-access=free }}</ref> and ''[[Usnea krogiana]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clerc |first1=Philippe |title=Synopsis of ''Usnea'' (lichenized Ascomycetes) from the Azores with additional information on the species in Macaronesia |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=38 |issue=3 |year=2006 |pages=191–212 |doi=10.1017/S002428290600569X |s2cid=85154154 }}</ref>

[[Category:20th-century Norwegian botanists]]

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