New Lichen Web Resources

The New York Botanical Garden has recently made available a set of excellent web resources for the study of lichens in North America.  Here is the announcement sent out by James Lendemer:

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We are pleased to announce that two new lichen websites have been posted that can be accessed via the NYBG Virtual Herbarium (http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/VirtualHerbarium.asp). These websites treat the lichen biotas of two large biogeographic regions of North America: the Ozarks and the southeastern Coastal Plain.

1) Lichens of the Ozarks - http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ozarklichens/

This website presents the results of Richard Harris and Doug Ladd's research on the lichen biota of the Ozark Ecoregion in central North America. Highlights of the website include a dynamic specimen-based checklist, dynamic literature listings including linked pdfs when applicable, and a pdf of the keys to Ozark lichens produced for the Tuckerman Workshop in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

2) Lichens of the Southeastern Coastal Plain - http://sweetgum.nybg.org/southeastlichens/index.php

This website is an ongoing effort intended to present the results of our continuing research on the lichen biota of the Coastal Plain of southeastern North America.

We welcome all comments, corrections, and suggestions. These should be sent to jlendemer@nybg.org

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The southeastern Coastal Plain project builds on the research and collecting done by Richard Harris for the classic works Some Florida Lichens (Harris 1990) and More Florida Lichens (Harris 1995).  Currently, we are actively working further north in the Coastal Plain, conducting inventories (e.g., Hodkinson & Case 2008, Hodkinson et al. 2009, Lendemer & Hodkinson in prep), elucidating distributional patterns (Lendemer & Hodkinson 2009, 2009a), and describing new species that occur in the region (e.g., Lendemer & Hodkinson 2010, in prep).  

Those who are attending the Botany 2010 conference in Rhode Island will have an opportunity to see a talk by James Lendemer on the progress of the work so far in the southeastern Coastal Plain (Lendemer et al. 2010).  At the upcoming conference, I will be co-leading a workshop on an integrated approach to lichen systematics (Lendemer et al. 2010a), presenting a poster on semi-cryptic species (Hodkinson & Lendemer 2010, 2010a), and giving a talk on 'rhizobes' associated with lichens (Hodkinson & Lutzoni 2010).  Hopefully, I will see some of you there!

- Brendan

[Research on the lichens of the Ozarks was supported by NSF Grant DEB-0206023.]

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References:

Harris, R. C. 1990. Some Florida Lichens. Published by the author. Bronx, NY. 109 pp.

Harris, R. C. 1995. More Florida Lichens, including the 10 cent tour of the pyrenolichens. Published by the author. Bronx, NY. 192 pp.

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Harris, R. C., and D. Ladd. 2005. Ozark lichens; Enumerating the lichens of the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Published by the authors. Bronx, NY. 249 pp.

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Hodkinson, B. P., and M. A. Case. 2008. A lichen survey of Williamsburg, Virginia. Banisteria 31: 24-30.
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Hodkinson, B. P., R. C. Harris, and M. A. Case. 2009. A Checklist of Virginia Lichens. Evansia 26(2): 64-88.
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View authors' updated checklist (website)

Hodkinson, B. P., and J. C. Lendemer. 2010. Molecular analyses reveal semi-cryptic species in Xanthoparmelia tasmanica. Bibliotheca Lichenologica: in press.
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Hodkinson, B. P., and J. C. Lendemer. 2010a. How do you solve a problem like Xanthoparmelia? Molecular analyses reveal semi-cryptic species in an Australasian-American 'disjunct' taxon. Botany 2010, abs. 355.
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Hodkinson, B. P., and F. Lutzoni. 2010. Do lichens harbor their own 'rhizobia'? A large-scale phylogenetic survey of lichen-associated bacteria from the order Rhizobiales. Botany 2010, abs. 347.
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Lendemer, J. C., and B. P. Hodkinson. 2009. The Wisdom of Fools: new molecular and morphological insights into the North American apodetiate species of Cladonia. Opuscula Philolichenum 7: 79-100.
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Lendemer, J. C., and B. P. Hodkinson. 2009a. Stretching the boundaries: A range extension for Buellia wheeleri R.C. Harris. Evansia 26(4): 172-176.
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View dynamic range map of Buellia wheeleri (google map)
 

Lendemer, J. C., and B. P. Hodkinson. 2010. A new perspective on Punctelia subrudecta in North America: previously-rejected morphological characters corroborate molecular phylogenetic evidence and provide insight into an old problem. Lichenologist 42(4): 405-421.
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Lendemer, J. C., R. C. Harris, and B. P. Hodkinson. 2010. Connecting the dots: progress and problems in assessing lichen biodiversity and biogeography in the coastal plain of southeastern North America. Botany 2010, abs. 30.
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Lendemer, J. C., B. P. Hodkinson, and M. Piercey-Normore. 2010. Cladonia Systematics: What can we infer from morphology and molecules? Botany 2010, abs. 1052.
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