Lichenology on-line

International Lichenological Newsletter Vol. 30, nr. 1, June 1997
Table of Contents E-mail World Wide Web New Web Sites Back Issues of ILN Lichen societies Contact us	Lichenology on-line E-mail - A listserver for lichenologists IAL provides a bulletin board and discussion forum via its listserver "lichens-l". All lichenologists with access to e-mail are encouraged to subscribe by sending the following message to "listproc@hawaii.edu". Leave the message line blank and type the message "subscribe lichens-l your name" and then send. You should receive confirmation within the next hour or so. The confirmation message provides instructions for accessing previous messages which have been archived as well as other general "housekeeping" information. If you have any problems send an enquiry to: cliff@hawaii.edu. The service is FREE. It provides an opportunity for rapid exchange of ideas, requests for information, etc., in an informal environment. The forum discussion on generic delimitation in this issue of the Newsletter was conducted on the bulletin board. Announcements of new World Wide Web (WWW) sites, meetings, field trips, and other services and opportunities are also made here. It is also an ideal place to advertise job opportunities. Information from the bulletin board, including WWW URLs, can be cut and pasted elsewhere on your computer using the EDIT command menu. The bulletin board is not for personal messages which should be addressed to the appropriate individual. Cliff Smith, Honolulu World Wide Web - Addresses of lichenologists This rapidly developing and expanding mode of communication and information exchange has been increasingly accepted by lichenologists. If you have access to e-mail you should be able to download free software from Netscape or Microsoft that will provide the platform for navigating the WWW. Creating your own home page is now very easy using Microsoft Word NT. You need to establish an account with your host computer (server), that is, the computer that provides your e-mail service. Create your message in Word NT and save it as an .html file. Then load the file into your server account and view it on Netscape or Microsoft Navigator. Should you want to change the appearance of the text you can edit the file using Front Page software. When you have completed the job, save the file, reload it on the WWW and the new version is there. If you have problems I suggest that you get help from your local computing community. You will almost certainly find that there are many people who will be only too willing to assist. Perhaps one of the more exciting aspects of recent advances is the interactivity of web sites. IAL is taking advantage of this capability in the development of the listing of postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of the lichenologist community. A database of over 700 people has been created. This database can now be searched on-line by entering the following URL at your WWW site: http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/lichen. The screen will present you with a number of options. To search the database you click on SEARCH. You do not have to know the complete name or number for which you are searching. That is, you can conduct very specific searches for a person or you can make a much wider search. For example, by typing the letter "b" in the Surname box and then clicking on SEARCH the computer will generate a listing of all people whose name begins with B. To restrict the search a little, if you type "BR" you will generate a listing of names beginning with Br. Note that you do not have to worry about upper and lower case letters; the system is case insensitive. You can search in any of the fields provided. So, if you want a listing of all of the lichenologists in the database whose address is "Spain" you can either type in the name Spain in the Country box or click on Spain in the menu box. Alternatively, you could go to the telephone numbers and type in the country code followed by a space and then search. Typing in the space is important because the space delimits the country code. For those people wanting to search for areas within a country I suggest that you use the country code followed by the area code(s) then a hyphen of the region that you wish to find. This is the only method that I can suggest for searches within countries as some of you requested. Interactivity is involved in that you can choose to add, delete, or modify records in the database. That is, you can modify the database from your computer without having to go to anyone else to do so. Of course, this means that someone could conduct some mischief. To try to prevent that from happening we will keep back-ups of the database at regular intervals. We will also log all changes to the database as they occur. So we will have an opportunity to backcheck an entry but we hope that we never have to. IAL hopes that the use of the listserver and the address database will further enhance communication within the lichen community. Cliff Smith, Honolulu New Web Sites The Lichen Herbarium, University of Oslo: http://www.toyen.uio.no/botanisk/lavherb.htm. - The complete electronic database of the "Recent Literature on Lichens"(series 1-163) with 16960 records, compiled by William L.Culberson, Robert S. Egan and Theodore L. Esslinger, is made available in searchable form. An on-line database is supplied with search options for Norwegian lichen specimens in BG and O and the lichen type specimens in O. Checklists of Norwegian lichens include accepted names, selected synonyms as well as Norwegian vernacular names. Listings of taxa in the Norwegian and in the foreign herbarium at O are also provided as "technical files" to download and for usage in a relational or a simple database. A page with all publications from the herbarium since 1823 includes more than 200 entries. Various information of the "Threatened Macrolichens Project" etc. A web site with lots of authentical data! The Lichenological Society of Japan (LSJ): http://www.kulawanka.ne.jp/~yozyamam/0906E.HTM. - Various information on the societies' structure, reports and announcements on the Annual LSJ Meetings, a News Bulletin with reviews, new records of species etc., and an e-mail address list of about 30 society members. The American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS): http://ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu/bryolab/ABLS.html. - Besides the pages on the organization of ABLS, several infos on membership, meetings, as well as on journals (The Bryologist and Evansia) are offered. The"Internet Resources for Bryologists and Lichenologists" page (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/ABLS/resources.html) provides links to other relevant web sites. Lichen Land Entertainment Guide, Oregon State University: http://www.mgd.orst.edu/hyperSQL/lichenland/index.html. - On-line determination of several dozens of lichen species for new and more advanced beginners. For each taxon, descriptions, a colour photograph and infos concerning habitat and photo site are given. Useful for educational purposes. The lichen herbarium, University of Trieste (TSB) - http://www.univ.trieste.it/cgi-bin/g/bot/leggi - The TSB lichen herbarium consists of ca. 30.000 specimens, two thirds of which were collected in Italy in the last twenty years. Information from the herbarium labels has been organized into a searchable database. You can get a list of species for each genus, and a list of specimens for each species. For every specimen the following data are given: number of the envelope, substrate, altitude, locality, collectors, collection date, exsiccatum nr. This information may be useful for those interested in receiving material on loan for monographic treatments. Gerhard Rambold, München. Lias Project New LIAS modules with DELTA-based species keys are available since issue 29(3) of the IAL Newsletter: Arthonia - subset Taxa with red pigments (M. Grube), Bunodophoron (M. Wedin), Carbonea (J.-G. Knoph, G. Rambold & D. Triebel), Cladonia s. l. - subset Queen Charlotte Islands (I. M. Brodo & T. Ahti), Dimelaena (M. Matzer & H. Mayrhofer), Lecidea - subset Europe (H. Hertel); Genera of Lichenized and Lichenicolous Ascomycetes - subset Genera with foliicolous taxa - beta version (G. Rambold & D. Triebel, most data sets revised by R. Lücking). The files can be downloaded from URL: http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/lias/modules.html. Gerhard Rambold, München Back issues of ILN The following back issues of ILN are still available: 9(1), 9(2), 10(1), 10(2), 11(1), 11(2), 12(1), 12(2), 13(1), 13(2), 14(1), 14(2), 15(1), 15(2), 16(1), 16(2), 17(1), 20(1) and further issues. Photocopies are available of: vol. 1(1), 1(2+supp.), 1(3) , 2(1), 3(2), 6(2), 7(1-2), 8(1-2). Two indexes are also available: Index to vol. 1-8, Index to vol. 9-13. - According to a resolution of the IAL Executive Council, published in ILN 16(1), April 1983, the following charges will be levied for back issues of ILN: Vol. 1: US$ 0.25 per number (3 per volume); vol. 2-8: US$ 0.50 per number (2 per volume); vol. 9-13: U S$ 1.00 per number (2 per volume); vol. 14-17: US$ 1.50 per number (2 per volume). Back issues from vol. 20 onward are available for US$ 1.00 per number (3 per volume). The Indexes are free. New members will receive free only copies of the numbers constituting the volume issued for the calendar year in which they join IAL. Orders to be sent to H. Sipman, Bot. Garten & Bot. Museum, Königin-Luise-Strasse 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany, fax: (+49) 30-83006186, e-mail: h.sipman@bgbm.org. The front-page illustration. Tornabenia africana A. Massal., inedited drawing by Abramo Massalongo (kindly provided by G. Lazzarin, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona). List of societies Australasia: Society of Australasian Lichenologists (SAL). Info: Dr. J. A. Elix, Dept. of Chemistry, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. Central Europe: Bryologisch-Lichenologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteleuropa (BLAM). Info: Dr. Volker John, Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde, Hermann-Schäfer-Strasse 17, D-67098 Bad Dürkheim, Germany. Czech & Slovak Republics: Bryological and Lichenological Section of the Czech Botanical Society. Info: Dr. J. Liska, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CS-252 43 Pruhonice, Czech Republic. Finland: Lichen Section, Societas Mycologica Fennica. Info: Dr. Teuvo Ahti, Department of Botany, P.O. Box 47, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. France: Association Française de Lichénologie (AFL). Info: Dr. Jean-Claude Boissiére, Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale, Route de la Tour Denecourt, F-77300 Fontainebleau, France. Great Britain: British Lichen Society (BLS). Info: Secretary, Dr. O.W. Purvis, Botany Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Italy: Società Lichenologica Italiana (SLI). Info: Secretary, Prof. Giovanni Caniglia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Via Trieste 75, I-35123 Padova, Italia. Japan: Lichenological Society of Japan (LSJ). Info: Dr. H. Harada, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba (CBM), Aobacho 955-2, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260, Japan. The Netherlands: Bryologische en Lichenologische Werkgroep der KNNV (BLW). Info: Leo Spier, Kon. Arthurpad 8, NL-3813 HD Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Nordic Countries: Nordisk Lichenologisk Forening (NLF). Info: Ulrik Søchting, Botanical Institute, Dept. of Mycology and Phycology, ö. Farimagsgade 2 D, DK-1353 Köbenhavn K, Denmark. North America: American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS). Info: Dr. Robert S. Egan, Biology Department, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182-0072, USA. North America, Northwest: Northwest Lichen Guild. Info: Dr. Bruce McCune, Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 2082, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA. Poland: Lichenological Section of the Polish Botanical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Botaniczne). Secretary: Dr. W. Faltynowicz, Dept. of Plant Ecology, University of Gdansk, ul. Czolgistow 46, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland. Slovakia: Lichenological Working-Group of the Slovak Botanical Society. Info: Dr. Eva Lisicka, Slovak National Museum, Vajanskeho nabr. 2, 814 36 Bratislava, Slovakia. Spain: Sociedad Española de Liquenologia (SEL). Info: A. Gomez-Bolea, Dept. de Biologia Vegetal (Botánica), Fac. Biologia, Univ. de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 645, E-08071 Barcelona, Spain. Sweden: Svensk Lichenologisk Förening (SLF). Info: Dr. G. Thor, Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7072, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. Switzerland: Schweizerische Vereinigung für Bryologie und Lichenologie (SVBL). Info: Ph. Clerc, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Case postale 60, CH-1292 Chambesy/GE, Switzerland. USA, California: California Lichen Society. Info: Janet Doell, 1200 Brickyard Way, #302, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801, USA.

International Lichenological Newsletter Vol. 30, nr. 1, June 1997

Table of Contents

E-mail

Contact us

Lichenology on-line

E-mail - A listserver for lichenologists

IAL provides a bulletin board and discussion forum via its listserver "lichens-l". All lichenologists with access to e-mail are encouraged to subscribe by sending the following message to "listproc@hawaii.edu". Leave the message line blank and type the message "subscribe lichens-l your name" and then send. You should receive confirmation within the next hour or so. The confirmation message provides instructions for accessing previous messages which have been archived as well as other general "housekeeping" information. If you have any problems send an enquiry to: cliff@hawaii.edu. The service is FREE. It provides an opportunity for rapid exchange of ideas, requests for information, etc., in an informal environment. The forum discussion on generic delimitation in this issue of the Newsletter was conducted on the bulletin board. Announcements of new World Wide Web (WWW) sites, meetings, field trips, and other services and opportunities are also made here. It is also an ideal place to advertise job opportunities. Information from the bulletin board, including WWW URLs, can be cut and pasted elsewhere on your computer using the EDIT command menu. The bulletin board is not for personal messages which should be addressed to the appropriate individual.

Cliff Smith, Honolulu

World Wide Web - Addresses of lichenologists

This rapidly developing and expanding mode of communication and information exchange has been increasingly accepted by lichenologists. If you have access to e-mail you should be able to download free software from Netscape or Microsoft that will provide the platform for navigating the WWW. Creating your own home page is now very easy using Microsoft Word NT. You need to establish an account with your host computer (server), that is, the computer that provides your e-mail service. Create your message in Word NT and save it as an .html file. Then load the file into your server account and view it on Netscape or Microsoft Navigator. Should you want to change the appearance of the text you can edit the file using Front Page software. When you have completed the job, save the file, reload it on the WWW and the new version is there. If you have problems I suggest that you get help from your local computing community. You will almost certainly find that there are many people who will be only too willing to assist. Perhaps one of the more exciting aspects of recent advances is the interactivity of web sites. IAL is taking advantage of this capability in the development of the listing of postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of the lichenologist community. A database of over 700 people has been created. This database can now be searched on-line by entering the following URL at your WWW site: http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/lichen. The screen will present you with a number of options. To search the database you click on SEARCH. You do not have to know the complete name or number for which you are searching. That is, you can conduct very specific searches for a person or you can make a much wider search. For example, by typing the letter "b" in the Surname box and then clicking on SEARCH the computer will generate a listing of all people whose name begins with B. To restrict the search a little, if you type "BR" you will generate a listing of names beginning with Br. Note that you do not have to worry about upper and lower case letters; the system is case insensitive. You can search in any of the fields provided. So, if you want a listing of all of the lichenologists in the database whose address is "Spain" you can either type in the name Spain in the Country box or click on Spain in the menu box. Alternatively, you could go to the telephone numbers and type in the country code followed by a space and then search. Typing in the space is important because the space delimits the country code. For those people wanting to search for areas within a country I suggest that you use the country code followed by the area code(s) then a hyphen of the region that you wish to find. This is the only method that I can suggest for searches within countries as some of you requested. Interactivity is involved in that you can choose to add, delete, or modify records in the database. That is, you can modify the database from your computer without having to go to anyone else to do so. Of course, this means that someone could conduct some mischief. To try to prevent that from happening we will keep back-ups of the database at regular intervals. We will also log all changes to the database as they occur. So we will have an opportunity to backcheck an entry but we hope that we never have to. IAL hopes that the use of the listserver and the address database will further enhance communication within the lichen community.

Cliff Smith, Honolulu

New Web Sites

The Lichen Herbarium, University of Oslo: http://www.toyen.uio.no/botanisk/lavherb.htm. - The complete electronic database of the "Recent Literature on Lichens"(series 1-163) with 16960 records, compiled by William L.Culberson, Robert S. Egan and Theodore L. Esslinger, is made available in searchable form. An on-line database is supplied with search options for Norwegian lichen specimens in BG and O and the lichen type specimens in O. Checklists of Norwegian lichens include accepted names, selected synonyms as well as Norwegian vernacular names. Listings of taxa in the Norwegian and in the foreign herbarium at O are also provided as "technical files" to download and for usage in a relational or a simple database. A page with all publications from the herbarium since 1823 includes more than 200 entries. Various information of the "Threatened Macrolichens Project" etc. A web site with lots of authentical data!

The Lichenological Society of Japan (LSJ): http://www.kulawanka.ne.jp/~yozyamam/0906E.HTM. - Various information on the societies' structure, reports and announcements on the Annual LSJ Meetings, a News Bulletin with reviews, new records of species etc., and an e-mail address list of about 30 society members.

The American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS): http://ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu/bryolab/ABLS.html. - Besides the pages on the organization of ABLS, several infos on membership, meetings, as well as on journals (The Bryologist and Evansia) are offered. The"Internet Resources for Bryologists and Lichenologists" page (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/ABLS/resources.html) provides links to other relevant web sites.

Lichen Land Entertainment Guide, Oregon State University: http://www.mgd.orst.edu/hyperSQL/lichenland/index.html. - On-line determination of several dozens of lichen species for new and more advanced beginners. For each taxon, descriptions, a colour photograph and infos concerning habitat and photo site are given. Useful for educational purposes.

The lichen herbarium, University of Trieste (TSB) - http://www.univ.trieste.it/cgi-bin/g/bot/leggi - The TSB lichen herbarium consists of ca. 30.000 specimens, two thirds of which were collected in Italy in the last twenty years. Information from the herbarium labels has been organized into a searchable database. You can get a list of species for each genus, and a list of specimens for each species. For every specimen the following data are given: number of the envelope, substrate, altitude, locality, collectors, collection date, exsiccatum nr. This information may be useful for those interested in receiving material on loan for monographic treatments.

Gerhard Rambold, München.

Lias Project

New LIAS modules with DELTA-based species keys are available since issue 29(3) of the IAL Newsletter: Arthonia - subset Taxa with red pigments (M. Grube), Bunodophoron (M. Wedin), Carbonea (J.-G. Knoph, G. Rambold & D. Triebel), Cladonia s. l. - subset Queen Charlotte Islands (I. M. Brodo & T. Ahti), Dimelaena (M. Matzer & H. Mayrhofer), Lecidea - subset Europe (H. Hertel); Genera of Lichenized and Lichenicolous Ascomycetes - subset Genera with foliicolous taxa - beta version (G. Rambold & D. Triebel, most data sets revised by R. Lücking). The files can be downloaded from URL:

http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/lias/modules.html.

Gerhard Rambold, München

Back issues of ILN

The following back issues of ILN are still available:
9(1), 9(2), 10(1), 10(2), 11(1), 11(2), 12(1), 12(2), 13(1), 13(2), 14(1), 14(2), 15(1), 15(2), 16(1), 16(2), 17(1), 20(1) and further issues. Photocopies are available of: vol. 1(1), 1(2+supp.), 1(3) , 2(1), 3(2), 6(2), 7(1-2), 8(1-2). Two indexes are also available: Index to vol. 1-8, Index to vol. 9-13.
- According to a resolution of the IAL Executive Council, published in ILN 16(1), April 1983, the following charges will be levied for back issues of ILN:

Vol. 1: US$ 0.25 per number (3 per volume);
vol. 2-8: US$ 0.50 per number (2 per volume);
vol. 9-13: U S$ 1.00 per number (2 per volume);
vol. 14-17: US$ 1.50 per number (2 per volume).

Back issues from vol. 20 onward are available for US$ 1.00 per number (3 per volume). The Indexes are free. New members will receive free only copies of the numbers constituting the volume issued for the calendar year in which they join IAL.
Orders to be sent to H. Sipman, Bot. Garten & Bot. Museum, Königin-Luise-Strasse 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany, fax: (+49) 30-83006186, e-mail: h.sipman@bgbm.org.

The front-page illustration.

Tornabenia africana A. Massal., inedited drawing by Abramo Massalongo (kindly provided by G. Lazzarin, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona).

List of societies

Australasia: Society of Australasian Lichenologists (SAL). Info: Dr. J. A. Elix, Dept. of Chemistry, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Central Europe: Bryologisch-Lichenologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteleuropa (BLAM). Info: Dr. Volker John, Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde, Hermann-Schäfer-Strasse 17, D-67098 Bad Dürkheim, Germany.
Czech & Slovak Republics: Bryological and Lichenological Section of the Czech Botanical Society. Info: Dr. J. Liska, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CS-252 43 Pruhonice, Czech Republic.
Finland: Lichen Section, Societas Mycologica Fennica. Info: Dr. Teuvo Ahti, Department of Botany, P.O. Box 47, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
France: Association Française de Lichénologie (AFL). Info: Dr. Jean-Claude Boissiére, Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale, Route de la Tour Denecourt, F-77300 Fontainebleau, France.
Great Britain: British Lichen Society (BLS). Info: Secretary, Dr. O.W. Purvis, Botany Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Italy: Società Lichenologica Italiana (SLI). Info: Secretary, Prof. Giovanni Caniglia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Via Trieste 75, I-35123 Padova, Italia.
Japan: Lichenological Society of Japan (LSJ). Info: Dr. H. Harada, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba (CBM), Aobacho 955-2, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260, Japan.
The Netherlands: Bryologische en Lichenologische Werkgroep der KNNV (BLW). Info: Leo Spier, Kon. Arthurpad 8, NL-3813 HD Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
Nordic Countries: Nordisk Lichenologisk Forening (NLF). Info: Ulrik Søchting, Botanical Institute, Dept. of Mycology and Phycology, ö. Farimagsgade 2 D, DK-1353 Köbenhavn K, Denmark.
North America: American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS). Info: Dr. Robert S. Egan, Biology Department, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182-0072, USA.
North America, Northwest: Northwest Lichen Guild. Info: Dr. Bruce McCune, Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 2082, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA.
Poland: Lichenological Section of the Polish Botanical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Botaniczne). Secretary: Dr. W. Faltynowicz, Dept. of Plant Ecology, University of Gdansk, ul. Czolgistow 46, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland.
Slovakia: Lichenological Working-Group of the Slovak Botanical Society. Info: Dr. Eva Lisicka, Slovak National Museum, Vajanskeho nabr. 2, 814 36 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Spain: Sociedad Española de Liquenologia (SEL). Info: A. Gomez-Bolea, Dept. de Biologia Vegetal (Botánica), Fac. Biologia, Univ. de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 645, E-08071 Barcelona, Spain.
Sweden: Svensk Lichenologisk Förening (SLF). Info: Dr. G. Thor, Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7072, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
Switzerland: Schweizerische Vereinigung für Bryologie und Lichenologie (SVBL). Info: Ph. Clerc, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Case postale 60, CH-1292 Chambesy/GE, Switzerland.
USA, California: California Lichen Society. Info: Janet Doell, 1200 Brickyard Way, #302, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801, USA.