in part kindly supported by the Croatian Science Foundation(DinDRY project,UIP-2020-02-5385,grant to A.B.).
Insects are suitable model organisms for functional morphology research,especially in the context of exaptation,when the same morphological trait represents an advantage in disparate niches.Phylogenetically distant gr...
The present study enumerates the diversity of corticolous lichens from Kokrajhar district of Assam state.The study records 54 species of lichens belonging to 21 genera and 14 families.Majority of the species are crust...
the College of Science,University of Santo Tomas the Fungal Biodiversity Ecogenomics and Systematics(FBeS)Group for their unwavering support in the performance of this study.
Various species of mangrove trees thrive in the mangrove forests of Calabarzon,Philippines including species of Avicennia marina,Rhizophora mucronata,and Rhizophora apiculata,which house various lichen species but ver...
by the United States National Science Foundation(NSF)to The Field Museum:“Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Ostropalean Fungi”(DEB 0516116,PI Lumbsch,Co-PI Lücking);“Neotropical Epiphytic Microlichens”(DEB 0715660,PI Lücking);“ATM-Assembling a taxonomic monograph:The lichen family Graphidaceae”(DEB 1025861;PI Lumbsch,Co-PI Lücking);Fieldwork was possible thanks to the doctoral thesis grant:“Estructura de la comunidad de liquenes crustosos,con enfasis en la familia Thelotremataceae,basada en especificidad de forofitos,microclima y nivel de disturbio forestal en la Concesión de Conservación Los Amigos(sureste peruano)”(MOORE Y710330;PI Rivas Plata),awarded by the Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica(ACCA).The first author is also grateful to a stipend from the Lester Armour Fund through the Field Museum which enabled part of the laboratory and data analysis work.
A survey of crustose microlichens at Los Amigos Biological Station in Amazonian Peru revealed 116 species of Graphidaceae at this site.This is the second highest number of Graphidaceae ever reported for a single site ...