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THE FOLIICOLOUS LICHEN HOMEPAGE

[Latest update: October 31st, 2000]

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Beautiful flowers, colourful insects, dangerous snakes – the idea that most have about the tropical rainforest.
The truth is quite different, however: billions of leaves, green everywhere you can see!
Still, a paradise for foliicolous cryptogams and those who study them...
(Photograph by Robert Lücking)

Research on tropical lichens, in particular those which inhabit the surface of living leaves, has received increasing attention in the past years. Information is growing rapidly in such diverse fields as taxonomy and systematics, floristics and biogeography, ecology, or even bioindication. For this reason it seemed appropriate to create this web-site, in order to present a medium where all the necessary information on foliicolous lichen research can be obtained. Since these pages are produced by the Department for Plant Systematics of the University of Bayreuth, they focuse on research projects carried out at our institute. However, useful references such as checklists or keys summarize present knowledge on foliicolous lichen research in various fields.

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Foliicolous lichens inhabit the surface of living leaves of vascular plants in tropical rainforests.
At present, approximately 700 species are known world-wide.
(Photograph by Robert Lücking)

Novelties of the October 31st update:

  • Updates of all checklists, with the Checklist of foliicolous lichens now containing 1962 entries, comprising 716 accepted species in 72 genera

  • Introduction of a new Novelties version of the Checklist, giving a survey over changes during the last two years (1999-2000)

  • Introduction of a first version of the Key to genera and species of foliicolous lichens, with a semi-interactive module allowing for the identification of genera containing foliicolous lichens and a selectively illustrated subkey for the identification of foliicolous Arthonia species

  • LICHENES FOLIICOLI EXSICCATI updated with four new fascicles (Fasc. VII-X)


Index to pages:

1. Taxonomy, floristics and biogeography of foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi

2. Systematics of tropical crustose lichens

3. Magnitude, origin and maintenance of lichen diversity in tropical rainforests

4. Physiognomy and ecomorphological adaptations of foliicolous lichen communities

5. Foliicolous lichens as bioindicators in the tropics

6. Biological interactions in the phyllosphere

About the author

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Robert Lücking was born in Ulm, Germany, on October 24th, 1964. He studied biology at the University of Ulm and, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), spend one year (1987-88) at the University of Costa Rica. He received his doctoral degree in 1994 with the thesis "Foliicolous lichens and their microhabitat preferences in a tropical rain forest in Costa Rica", guided by the late Prof Dr S. Winkler (†1992) and Prof Dr G. Gottsberger. His thesis was awarded with the Doctoral Award of the University of Ulm in 1995 and the Mason Hale Award of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL) in 1996. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as a postdoc at the University of Ulm, supported by a research grant of the German Research Society (DFG). In 1998, he stayed for three months at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, where he gave courses in lichenology and biostatistics. In December 2001, he got his PD from the University of Bayreuth and moved to the Field Museum in Chicago at about the same time.

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Dr. Lücking has concentrated his work on various aspects of tropical foliicolous and crustose lichens: Taxonomy and systematics, floristics and biogeography, ecology, biodiversity, bioindication, and lichen-invertebrate interactions. He travelled to various regions in the Neotropics, including Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, and Brazil. He is now extending his investigations onto tropical crustose lichens, in order to study their diversity, distribution and ecology in neotropical lowland rainforests. Presently, he focuses on the phylogeny and systematics of the lichen families Asterothyriaceae, Gomphillaceae, Pilocarpaceae, and Ectolechiaceae and the genera Mazosia and Trichothelium, which, in collaboration with various colleagues (E. Farkas, K. Kalb, M. Matzer, E. Sérusiaux, G. Thor, A. Vezda), will be treated monographically for the series "Flora Neotropica". Privatly, he is a passionate nature photographer and a fan of Afro-Latin music, writing articles for the salsa magazines The Salsaholic and Bamboleo.

Acknowledgements

The data presented on these pages are not only results of our own research projects but have been compiled from numerous literature sources and by collaboration with many colleagues. The following colleagues are particularly acknowledged for their help, knowing that this list is far from complete: A. Aptroot (Baarn, The Netherlands), A. Bernecker-Lücking (Ulm, Germany), E. Farkas (Vácrátót, Hungary), L. I. Ferraro (Corrientes, Argentina), H. T. Lumbsch (Essen, Germany), K. Kalb (Neumarkt, Germany), M. Matzer (Graz, Austria), R. Santesson (Uppsala, Sweden), E. Sérusiaux (Liège, Belgium), H. J. M. Sipman (Berlin, Germany), G. Thor (Stockholm, Sweden), and A. Vezda (Brno, Czech Republic).

 

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