Lichenology - Science topic

The present paper presents the results of the investigation of the health status of the Seraïdi state forest where we chose the Berouaga stand and the Bouzizi stand. The field work, was carried out during the year 2016/2017, involved prospecting the forest, identifying the study area, and setting up the observation plots. The average number of tree...

Protoparmeliopsis is reported for the first time from Pakistan and is represented here by Protoparmeliopsis zareii as a species record of this genus. This species has been identified using macro- and micromorphological descriptions, spot tests, ITS (Internal Transcribed Spacers), and LSU (Larger Sub Unit) of rDNA molecular markers analyses. Molecul...

Symbiosis is an old idea with a contentious history. New genomic technologies and research paradigms are fueling a shift in some of its central tenets; we need to be humble and open-minded about what the data are telling us.

This paper provides data on 26 new, rare, and interesting species of lichens discovered in the city of Moscow and Moscow Region during the field studies in 2014–2022, of which 21 species are new to the study area. Fellhaneropsis vezdae is new to the European part of Russia, and Briancoppinsia cytospora, Thelidium minimum, and Verrucaria inaspecta a...

Evolutionary radiations are one of the most striking processes biologists have studied in islands. A radiation is often sparked by the appearance of ecological opportunity, which can originate in processes like trophic niche segregation or the evolution of key innovations. Another recently proposed mechanism is facilitation mediated by the bacteria...

The article presents the results of a lichenological inventory carried out in the “Tabórz Pine” nature reserve, which protects a unique old-growth forest dominated by Scots pine and European beech. The aim of the research was to document the taxonomic and ecological diversity of the lichen biota in the reserve and, on this basis, determine the role...

This study presents the status and trends of long-term monitoring of the elemental concentrations of zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), and cadmium (Cd) in Hylocomium splendens moss tissue in Cape Krusenstern National Monument (CAKR), Alaska, adjacent to the Red Dog Mine haul road. Spatial patterns of the deposition of these metals were re-assessed for the peri...

It has long been assumed that lichen-forming fungi have very large distribution ranges, and that endemic species are rare in this group of organisms. This is likely a consequence of the "everything small is everywhere" paradigm that has been traditionally applied to cryptogams. However, the description of numerous endemic species over the last deca...

Molecular sequence data have transformed research on cryptogams (e.g., lichens, microalgae, fungi, and symbionts thereof) but methods are still strongly hampered by the small size and intermingled growth of the target organisms, poor cultivability and detrimental effects of their secondary metabolites. Here, we aim to showcase examples on which a m...

Recent lichenological fieldwork in the Czech Republic resulted in the discovery of two previously unrecognized entities in the genus Psilolechia which are described below as new species: the saxicolous P. cretacea and the lignicolous P. torii. Both taxa regularly produce a hyphomycetous anamorph in the form of erect, elongate conidiogenous cells on...

Twenty-three lichenicolous fungi were recorded during the excursions at the annual meeting of the Bryolich (Swiss Association of Bryology and Lichenology) 2019 in alpine habitats at 2300 m a.s.l. near Flims (Graubünden, Switzerland). Among these, 14 species are published for the first time for Switzerland. Caeruleoconi-dia biazrovii is recorded for...

Background Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) has become a significant public health issue in Jinan City. However, the analysis of epidemiological characteristics and spatio-temporal clustering of SFTS in Jinan has not been studied yet. Methods SFTS data from 2018−2022 in Jinan City were obtained from the China Information System f...

Bacidina ferax was described by Stefan Ekman in 2023, particularly basing on the collections from the North-East of the European Russia (Komi Republic). Herewith, B. ferax is reported for the first time for the Middle European Russia – from the Nizhny Novgorod Region. A complete morphological description, including the characters, distinguishing B....

The rotation lengths of intensively managed production forests may be altered to achieve a variety of goals, with correspondingly implications for biodiversity. Here we consider the potential implications of shortened rotation times for biodiversity in planted monocultures of the two most common production tree species in Sweden, Scots pine ( Pinus...

"Indeterminabilis" is the label found on some of the specimens in the Pires da Lima lichen collection. This extensive collection of lichens was collected by the Portuguese scientist Américo Pires de Lima in 1916/17 during his time in Mozambique and is currently housed in the Herbarium of the University of Porto (PO/MHNC-UP). In 1929, a comprehensiv...

In the last decades, lichenological studies started again in Lombardia (N Italy), where locally overlooked situations persist. One of such areas is the southernmost part of the Pavese Apennine, where the highest mountains of the Province of Pavia are located. We report the results of a thorough lichen survey carried out in the Natura 2000 Habitat 9...

In 1948, Maurice Bouly de Lesdain described a new species of Pertusaria, P. plombii B. de Lesd. This corticolous lichen was considered quite common in Gironde, where the naturalist who made the discovery, Jean-Georges Plomb, seemed to find it easily. However, it was never seen again in France until 2019. After outlining the history and lichenologic...

Migratory caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) is a socioeconomically and culturally key species for northern communities in the Arctic, and most of its populations are experiencing a sharp decline. Female migratory caribou depend on the availability of summer habitat resources to meet the needs associated with lactation and the accumulation of fat reserve...

Lichen mapping is vital for caribou management plans and sustainable land conservation. Previous studies have used random forest, dense neural network, and convolutional neural network models for mapping lichen coverage. However, to date, it is not clear how these models rank in this task. In this study, these machine learning models were evaluated...

This year marks 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian cryptogamist, Alexander Alexandrovich Elenkin. He is renowned as the pioneer of the Russian cyanobacterial science school and one of the founding figures in Russian lichenology. A. A. Elenkin has made a titanic work on describing the flora of blue-green algae of the USSR, and...

Publications on the lichens of Alaska go back 182 years, but a modern, comprehensive review of literature on the diversity of Alaskan lichens has been lacking. The authors present a compendium of 2126 accepted taxa fully referenced with published reports from Alaska and their exact localities. Of these 2126 taxa, 1827 are lichen fungi, 277 are lich...

The territory of the Yugra Peninsula is poorly studied in terms of lichenology. Having processed the specimens of lichens collected during the geobotanical survey in the southwestern part of the peninsula (Pay-Khoy Ridge, Vasyakha River catchment) in 2010, we prepared an annotated list of lichens including 154 species. It contains information on th...

Africa is an important global reservoir for biological, cultural and traditional knowledge about fungi and lichens, which are used as food, medicine and in mythology, among other things. African human populations are undergoing highly significant changes and adaptation processes, which are accompanied by rapid urbanization, meeting with western civ...

iNaturalist is a widely-utilized platform for data collection and sharing among non-professional volunteers and is widely employed in citizen science. This platform's data are also used in scientific studies for a wide range of purposes, including tracking changes in species distribution, monitoring the spread of alien-invasive species, and assessi...

The digitization of herbarium collections has brought forth a transformative journey, transitioning Nepal's hidden kingdom of mushrooms and lichens from the shadows into the spotlight. Through a collaborative work within the framework of Global Biodiversity Information Facility's Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (GBIF-BIFA), involving the her...

Lichens are symbiotic and multicellular organisms that live in different ecosystems, for example, mountain ecosystem. Therefore, many biologists identified many lichens from known Peruvian mountains. However, there is not existed paper on tardigrades extracted from lichens from Peruvian mountains, despite they are habitats to tardigrades. Therefore...

Carlsberg subtilisin from Bacillus licheniformis PB1 was investigated as a potential feed supplement, through immobilizing on bentonite for improving the growth rate of broilers. Initially, the pre-optimized and partially-purified protease was extracted and characterized using SDS-PAGE with MW 27.0 KDa. The MALDI-TOF-MS/MS spectrum confirmed a tryp...

Towards the exploration, documentation, conservation and maintenance of biodiversity, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), New Delhi, India (2009) recognizes several important thematic areas of research with special priority assigned to Northeast India, a world biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al., 2000). Among such thematic areas, Lichenology...

More than 10 years ago, the Ukrainian lichenological group began to research the distribution of lichens with arid ecology (Nadyeina et al. 010). However, main part of the material as locations, critically studied herbarium pecimens and human observations have not been published. Recently we obtained new information on distribution of threatened li...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was a landmark protection for rare organisms in the United States. Although the ESA is known for its protection of wildlife, a majority of listed species are actually plants and lichen. Climate change will impact species populations globally. Already-rare species, like those listed in the ESA, are at an even higher...

During lichenological fieldwork along the coast of the Atlantic Sahara, Morocco, we collected some remarkably long lobed “Caloplaca” specimens, which turned out to be Stellarangia namibensis. This is the first record of this species in the northern hemisphere, and represents a significant extension of the known range of a lichen previously thought...

Clerical persons conducted a variety of botanical research in Poland and Polish lands. The purpose of this article is to describe their achievements in this fi eld of science. No comprehensive study of the clergy's contribution to the development of this branch of science has been made so far. The study is based on the biographies of botanists and...

Lichens are known to produce many novel bioactive metabolites. To date, approximately 1,000 secondary metabolites have been discovered, which are predominantly produced by the lichen mycobionts. However, despite the extensive studies on production of lichen secondary metabolites, little is known about the responsible biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC...

The lichens: Acarospora impressula, A. nitrophila, A. nodulosa, A. schleicheri, A. sinopica, A. smaragdula and A. umbillicata, collected in North Kosovo are reported as a new species to Serbia, following a recent lichenological survey. Location, herbarium deposits and substrates are given, together with notes on distribution of the reported taxa.

Soil invertebrates are an integral part of Arctic ecosystems through their roles in the breakdown of litter, soil formation, and nutrient cycling. However, studies examining soil invertebrates in the Arctic are limited and our understanding of the abiotic and biotic drivers of these invertebrate communities remains understudied. We examined differe...

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), derived from reflected visible and infrared radiation, has been critical to understanding change across the Arctic, but relatively few ground truthing efforts have directly linked NDVI to structural and functional properties of Arctic tundra ecosystems. To improve the interpretation of changing NDV...

Female genital lichen sclerosus is an underdiagnosed, distressing, chronic dermatosis affecting the well-being of women. The aim of this retrospective case-control study was to assess whether the disease is connected with work productivity and activity impairment, depression and decreased sexual quality of life. Fifty-one female patients with genit...

Beech forests are considered one of the most emblematic ecosystems in the temperate deciduous broadleaf forest biome and host a wide variety of specialised cryptogamic organisms such as epiphytic lichens. This checklist is the first compilation focused on the epiphytic lichen diversity occurring on Fagus sylvatica L. trees along Europe. The checkli...

In der 18. Folge der ‚Beiträge zur bryofloristischen Erforschung der Schweiz' werden neue Fundorte von seltenen, gefährdeten oder anderweitig bemerkenswerten Moosen vorgestellt. Dabei handelt es sich um folgende Arten: Anomodon rostratus, Campyliadelphus elodes, Fissidens grandifrons, Scapania apiculata, Schistidium succu-lentum, Sphagnum affine. A...

This paper is a continuation of the new series started in 2020 to publish the new or interesting lichenological discoveries made in Switzerland or in the Geneva canton. Aspicilia crespiana is new to the Alps and to Switzerland. Candelariella blastidiata, C. faginea and C. oleaginescens are new to Switzerland. New observations for Candelariella plum...

Anhydrobiosis is a desiccation tolerance that denotes the ability to survive almost complete dehydration without sustaining damage. The knowledge on the survival capacity of various tardigrade species in anhydrobiosis is still very limited. Our research compares anhydrobiotic capacities of four tardigrade species from different genera, i.e. Echinis...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are air pollutants that are costly to measure using traditional air-quality monitoring methods. We used an epiphytic bio-indicator (moss genus: Orthotrichum ) to cost-effectively evaluate atmospheric deposition of PAHs in Portland, Oregon in May 2013. However, it is unclear if measurements derived from these...

A checklist of 916 lichenised taxa is reported from the Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino Natural Park and its surroundings (Trentino-Alto Adige, N Italy), based on 7351 records from: (a) 72 literature sources, (b) eight public and private herbaria and (c) field observations by some of the authors. The study area appears as a hotspot of lichen diversi...

We present the results of lichenological research in 20 Latvian manor parks. In total 62 lichen taxa and one lichenicolous taxa (Muellerella hospitans Stizenb.) were identified on 18 tree taxa. In total, five lichen species were specially protected, eight were Woodland Key Habitat indicator species and two species were red-listed in Latvia.

Altogether 206 taxa of bryophytes (21 liverworts and 185 mosses) were recorded during excursions in the Bílé Karpaty Mts (White Carpathians), which are designated Protected Landscape Areas in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Among the recorded taxa, two species considered extinct from the bryoflora of the Czech Republic (Fossombronia pusilla a...

The herbarium collections at the Polytechnic Academy of Porto started around 1881, with the efforts from the Experimental Botanical Garden Staff. A few years later, Gonçalo Sampaio started his contributions, exchanging exsiccatae with foreign institutes and botanists, thus establishing the foundations for the study of Portuguese Phytography (Phane...

Relevance and goal. “Losiny Ostrov” National Park with the area of about 13 thousand hectares was organized in 1983 and is situated on the territory of the Moscow agglomeration, partially within the Moscow city limits. A unique complex of natural conditions ensures a considerable wealth of biota, which is far from being fully studied. Despite a lon...

Remote sensing with satellite imagery has been used with varying levels of success to quantify several lichen characteristics such as: distribution, fractional ground cover, volume and biomass, moisture content, as well as diversity and chemical properties.

Five lichen species: Buellia uberior, Micarea laeta, M. microareolata, Ramonia himelbrantii, Thelocarpon intermediellum are reported for the first time for the territory of Central Russia (the name implies the Central Federal District). Another six lichen species: Biatora chrysantha, Micarea byssacea, M. elachista, M. pusilla, M. soralifera, M. tom...

The poster presents an interdisciplinary research project, still in progress, born from the collaboration between biodesign and lichenology, with the aim of developing bioreceptive materials and artifacts for mosses and lichens, bringing sustainable and innovative solutions for the biodesign and architecture sectors, but also for lichenology and ci...

In the western sector of the Alps, and particularly in the Aosta Valley, lichenological communities on broad-leaved trees have received very little attention, and information about lichen species associated with common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) are still scanty. Therefore, in this study, we analyzed epiphytic lichen communities of ash trees to es...

Background Mushrooms and lichens are natural therapeutic resources whose millenary importance persists in indigenous and mestizo communities of Mexico. However, in this regard, in the northern part of the country there are few ethnobiological explorations. This study investigates the local knowledge of medicinal mushrooms and lichens used by Yuman...

The identification of species of the genus Cladonia is very problematic due to its high phenotypic polymorphism. Even the detection of the lichen substances present by means of TLC techniques is sometimes not entirely resolute, which is why genetic identification methods are recently being applied. In this work, specimens of Cladonia collected from...

Th e results of lichenological studies on hornfels outcrops in the Izerskie Mountains (Sudetes, SW Poland) are presented. Th is substrate is connected with the igneous intrusion into the country rocks and is characterized by a richer chemical and mineral composition than the surrounding rock bodies. In the six analyzed sites, a total of 48 saxicolo...

As a result of lichenological fieldwork in Mawat and Gapelon locations in the northeast of Iraq, a total of 22 lichens were identified from nine different localities. Acarospora epiaspicilia, Acarospora murorum, Aspicilia contorta subsp. hoffmanniana, Caloplaca saxicola, Caloplaca xantholyta, Caloplaca oblongula , Candelariella coralliza, Immersari...

Национальный парк «Салаир» – новая федеральная особо охраняемая природная территория, созданная в 2020 году в Алтайском крае. В статье анализируются и обобщаются ранее известные и новые (осуществлённые в течение первого года функционирования национального парка) наблюдения редких и исчезающих видов организмов, занесенных в Красную книгу Российской...

Fatynowicz, W. 2022. Participation and role of German lichenologists in understanding the lichen biota of the areas currently within the borders of Poland. Herzogia 35: 6 21. German naturalists initiated lichenological research in the areas lying within the Polish borders as early as in the 17th century. For over 200 years of their activity, they h...

The results of bryological excursions conducted in the Kokořín area, Central Bohemia in September 2021 are reported. Altogether 192 bryophyte taxa (1 hornwort, 47 liverworts, 144 mosses) were recorded. Two endangered species (Cephaloziella elachista, Scorpidium scorpioides), three vulnerable (Geocalyx graveolens, Drepanocladus polygamus, Pogonatum...

A checklist of all taxa of lichenized and lichenicolous fungi recorded from Bulgaria is presented. The lichen biota as currently known includes 1137 taxa (1115 species, 5 subspecies, and 17 varieties) of lichenized fungi, 46 species of lichenicolous fungi, and 28 non-lichenized fungi traditionally included in lichenological literature. Lepra corall...

Current lichenological research in Dagestan has started in 2009 and still goes on. Up to date, there are about 870 species known from the area. Is this a lot or not? Using a lichen coefficient and other indicators of studying we will try to answer this question.

Lichenology has received much attention in recent decades due to two major reasons; functioning as bio-indicators and having chemicals with industrial significance. However, Manglicolous lichens (i.e., mangroves lichens) have not yet been extensively studied compared to other terrestrial lichens, particularly in Sri Lanka. Hence, this study was aim...

This paper is a continuation of the new series started in 2020 to publish the new or interesting lichenological discoveries made in Switzerland or in the Geneva canton. Lobaria pulmonaria, a macrolichen endangered in a large part of its distribution area in Europe, was rediscovered in the canton of Geneva. Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans a distinct specie...

New data on the lichen flora of the North Ossetia Nature Reserve from the cluster “Kartsa” are provided. This cluster is located in Kartsinskii Range slopes, Central Caucasus. The specimens of lichens and lichenicolous fungi were collected near the top of Ol’dukhankhokh Mt. in cluster “Kartsa” in June 2016. In total, 115 lichen species and 15 liche...

In the context of the development of infrastructure in Siberian cities, the issues of the state of the areas with accumulated environmental damage is especially relevant. It is mentioned in the article that lichen indication is an efficient method of passive monitoring of environment for industrial pollutants caused by morphological changes occurri...

Although lichens have been the subject of renewed interest for many countries worldwide, this has not been the case for Tunisia where much of the territory continues to be largely under-explored. In order to promote lichenological research in Tunisia, a checklist was published in 1996 together with an historical overview and a bibliography compiled...

Purpose To better understand the pathophysiology of lichen sclerosus (LS) urethral stricture disease (USD), we aimed to investigate expression profiles of microRNAs (miRNAs) in tissue samples from men undergoing urethroplasty. Methods Urethral stricture tissue was collected from 2005–2020. Histologic features diagnostic of LS were the basis of pat...

October 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Herbarium (KW) of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of NAS of Ukraine, which in 1999 was recognized as the National Heritage Unit, the National Herbarium of Ukraine. The article is devoted to a brief overview of the role of Head Curators of the National Herbarium of Ukraine and against the backgro...

This third annual edition of MycoNews starts with a message from IMA President Wieland Meyer regarding the adoption of new statutes for the IMA, the postponement of IMC12 to 2024, and announcing Marc Stadler as President-elect. The new statutes are included in full. News is provided on the launch of a World Fungus Day, acceptance of the term Funga...

We report on the diversity of epiphytic lichens and allied non-lichenised fungi in two forest sites in the Prielbrusie National Park (Northern Caucasus, Russia). Each forest site was represented by a 1-ha square. In Prielbrusie National Park (total area is 1010.2 km2), forest vegetation is restricted to the lowermost elevations in the river valleys...

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Greatly simplified ecosystems are often neglected for biodiversity studies. However, these simplified systems dominate in many regions of the world, and a lack of understanding of what shapes species occurrence in these systems can have consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services at a massive scale. In Fennoscandia, ~90% of the boreal fore...

In summer and autumn 2020, a lichenological inventory took place in the Gauja National Park (Latvia, Northern Europe). In total, 60 species of lichenized fungi, six non-lichenized saprophytic fungi and three non-lichenized fungi are reported as new for Gauja National Park. Among them, ten species are new to Latvia. Data on habitats, substrates, mai...

The bryophyte flora of the Hurwenensche Uiter­ waarden. The southern forelands of the river Waal between Zaltbommel and Hurwenen were investigated in 2020-2021. The area is the largest foreland in the Bommelerwaard. The Bryological and Lichenological Society visited parts of it in 1975 and 1982. Appendix 1 presents the taxa found before 2020 and in...

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Objectives Autoimmune bullous diseases vary in their clinico-epidemiological features and burden across populations. Data about these diseases was lacking in Sudan. We aimed to describe the epidemiological profile and to estimate the burden of autoimmune bullous diseases in Sudan. Methods This was a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted at...

The Bryological Times Volume 152 2 The International Association of Bryologists (IAB), American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS), Canadian Botanical Association (CBA-ABC) and Société québécoise de bryologie (SQB) are organizing the online conference 'Bryophytes, lichens, and northern ecosystems in a changing world' (BL2021), which is h...

Brackel, W.v.: Lichenicolous fungi from Campania (Italy).-Borziana 2: 031-068. 2021-ISSN: 2724-5020 online. During a two weeks excursion to Campania in 2016, 36 lichenologically interesting sites were visited. The results of these field studies with special emphasis on lichenicolous fungi are presented , completed with data from the literature. The...

While restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have strongly limited and affected the work of scientists and communicators, the pandemic has also encouraged the development of new ways of networking and public engagement. People have had to resort to virtual events, with a subsequent proliferation of webinars, online meetings, and digital reso...

Background The pathophysiology of xerosis depends on extrinsic and intrinsic exposures. Residential hard water may constitute such an exposure. Objectives To estimate the prevalence of xerosis and to compare water hardness exposure in blood donors with and without xerosis. Methods In this retrospective cohort study in 2018–2019, blood donors with...

We investigated the radiocaesium content of nine epiphytic foliose lichens species and the adjacent barks of Zelkova serrata (Ulmaceae, "Japanese elm") and Cerasus sp. (Rosaceae, "Cherry tree") at the boundary of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station six years after the accident in 2011. Caesium-137 activities per unit area (the 137 Cs-inven...

A lichenological inventory was conducted in the pine stands in the south-eastern region of Żerków-Czeszewo Landscape Park. The aim of this study was to recognize the lichen species diversity on the bark of Pinus sylvestris by considering tree age and forest habitat type. In total, 26 species of lichenized fungi were found on the bark of P. sylvestr...

The results of lichenological research conducted for the first time in the parks of the A.S. Pushkin (Odintsovo district, Moscow region) are presented. The checklist of lichen biota is given, containing 55 species of lichens and allied fungi, including listed in the Red Data Book of the Moscow region Parmelina tiliacea (Hoffm.) Hale, and 2 new spec...

Community ecology has experienced a major transition, from a focus on patterns in taxonomic composition, to revealing the processes underlying community assembly through the analysis of species functional traits. The power of the functional trait approach is its generality, predictive capacity such as with respect to environmental change, and, thro...

Lichens are among the most amazing organisms on our planet. Their very structure is unique: a symbiosis of two organisms—a fungus and algae (or cyanobacteria)—and so perfect that they behave and look like an absolute new being. Lichens occur on different substrates almost everywhere. They play a significant role in desert ecosystems where condition...

Hurricanes drastically modify habitat structure and environmental conditions in forests of the island of Puerto Rico. In general, short- and long-term effects of hurricanes on most of the macro-fauna and vascular flora in these ecosystems has been well characterized. Unfortunately, the effects of hurricanes on lichens and bryophytes, which are amon...

The monographer A.H. Magnusson considered Acarospora fusca to be a member of the morphologically defined A. smaragdula group, most of whose members are now recognized in the phylogenetically circumscribed genus Myriospora. Recently A. fusca has been considered a synonym of M. rufescens. This study presents newly generated ITS, mtSSU and LSU sequenc...

This paper presents the results of lichenological studies carried out in the Zielonka Forest near Poznań, which yielded new information about the lichens of that forest. A total of 81 taxa were found in the area, of which 5 are legally protected and 18 are considered endangered in Poland. Agonimia flabelliformis, A. repleta, Bacidina mendax and Par...

The lichenological legacy of the Mecklenburg entomologist Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842–1908) at the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History of Görlitz A party of about 130 lichen specimens from Mecklenburg (Northern Germany) at the Natural History Museum of Görlitz, collected towards the end of the 19th century, can be assigned to pastor F. W. Konow...

p>This paper presents a review of the research conducted by the staff of the Department of Mycology at UWM, Olsztyn since its establishment to the present. This unit was established and has been headed for over 20 years by Prof. Maria Dynowska. Since 2004, the Department has been conducting extensive mycological research, which is reflected in the...

The Bay of Arcachon (southwest France) is an ecosystem rich in biodiversity. As part of a management plan, a floristic diversity study was carried out, including habitat and vegetation mapping at 1:5000 scale, a phytosociological typology and floristic and lichological inventories. This report focuses on mapping methods and floristic and lichenolo...

Peter D. Crittenden served as senior editor of The Lichenologist , the flagship journal in the field of lichenological research, for a period of two decades, between 2000 and 2019. A review of the development of the journal and the publication output during this period is provided. The number of papers published during this period (1197) matches th...

The atmospheric pollution is an international phenomenon which threatens the human life around the world. Contrary to North America and Europe, which have observatories of the atmospheric pollution, some other regions such as Africa are dispossess of this kind of institutions, things that pushed the scientists in the environment and air quality to...

During a one-week-excursion to Molise in 2016, 18 sites of lichenological interest were visited. The results of these field studies with special emphasis on lichenicolous fungi are presented, completed with data from the literature. The list comprises four species known only from literature and 45 species with own recent finds. Among these three sp...

Current strategies for conservation reportedly suffer from an inadequate awareness of the drivers affecting lichen diversity, pointing to the need to fully develop a functional approach to lichen ecology. This study is an attempt to detect the drivers affecting functional diversity in the lichen flora of a volcanic Mediterranean area. Data on epiph...

EPARD J.-L., GEX P. & VUST M., 2020. Les blocs erratiques propriété de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences naturelles 99: 29-66. Résumé Seize blocs erratiques, propriété de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, ont été étudiés des points de vue historique, pétrographique et lichénologique...

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This communication is in continuation with “Bibliography to the Indian lichens from the year 2010 onwards” published in a special volume of this journal by Joseph et al. (2018). Here a total of 146 research articles, books and chapters published during the years 2018 and 2019 are listed. The list also includes some of the references missing in the...

The study presents the results of lichenological research conducted in 2012–2016, based on my fieldwork carried out in mountain streams in the Polish Western Carpathians, revision of herbarium materials, and published data on lichen species in freshwater habitats in the study area. Field work was performed on 98 research plots divided into three zo...