New Websites
The Newsletter on-line - Starting
with 1997, the old issue of the Newsletter is available on-line in two
versions (frames and text only) at the following addresses:
EUROPE:
EUROPE:
USA:
US Forest Service - A website
regarding the use of lichens as air quality indicators in Oregon and Washington.
Includes a literature review, species lists for national forests in the
PNW, monitoring methods used by the Service, sensitivity info. http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/aq/lichen
Società Lichenologica Italiana
- The new website of the S.L.I. provides information on the Society
and on social events in 1998, a complete list of Italian lichenological
literature in the last decade, and an index to the current and past numbers
of the Notiziario. It also announces a prize, sponsored by the Society,
for a thesis of lichenological content. Currently the page is in Italian
only, but an English version will be available soon. Web site: http://www.lrcser.it/~sli
British Lichen Society - The
page has been updated on 30 September 1997. It now includes, in addition
to the Society's prospectus and an application form, the Society's rules,
general information, names and addresses of officers and chairpersons of
committees, a listing of taxonomic referees and how to contact them, details
of meetings and publications as well as an evaluation version of the new
U.K. Parmelia Ach. CD-ROM which has already been well received.
This CD-ROM includes:
-
access through current names or synonyms,
each with B.L.S. identification numbers;
-
117 high quality colour photographs
in a readily accessible and inexpensive form;
-
up to 4 photographs of every species
highlighting the distinctive features;
-
descriptions of each photograph;
-
results of Pd, K, KC and C chemical
spot tests and UV response;
-
table of major chemical constituents
indicated by TLC;
-
cross-references to similar species;
-
a table of habitats showing likelihood
of occurrence on different substrates;
-
descriptions of each of the revised
genera
-
an improved key based on the Flora key;
-
an extensive glossary of lichen terms;
-
the original distribution maps and text
of the Atlas;
-
over 4,000 links to provide easy navigation
through the document.
The CD includes three fairly large images
which may take a while to download after clicking on the 'thumbnails'.
The cost is modest, £8-00 (including postage and packing) for a single
user. Full details are available on the site: http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/jmgray
Index Herbariorum - Updated
information for U.S. herbaria listed in Index Herbariorum and its supplements
(published in Taxon) is now available for searching by institution,
city, state, acronym, staff member, correspondent, and research speciality
at The New York Botanical Garden. Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and
URL addresses are included. Please send corrections and updates to pholmgren@nybg.org
and/or nholmgren@nybg.org.
Updates will appear about every two months. Updated information for Canadian
and Mexican herbaria should be available at this Web site within the coming
six months. Other geographical areas will follow as time permits. http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html
The Herbarium Hamburgense
offers lists of its collectors and collections, including a list of lichens
preserved in HBG, on the internet. The list contains 38.300 specimens of
3719 species which belong to 314 genera of lichens. Type-specimens are
indicated. Some 15.000 further specimens, belonging to smaller, older collections
and the newer herbaria of T.Feuerer, C.Marth, A.Niebel-Lohmann and others,
are not yet incorporated. The lichens of the Herbarium Hamburgense are
mainly drawn from the collections of C.F.E.Erichsen, T.Feuerer, O.Jaap,
P.Junge, C.Kausch and C.T.Timm. Central Europe and South America are well
represented. The oldest lichen collection found up so far dates from 1818.
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/ialb/herbar/listen.htm
Acharius Collections at the
Swedish Museum of Natural History described by Erik Acharius are to be
found on http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/kbo/ach/acharius.html.en
together with scanned images of over 60 of Acharius´ specimens
and labels. Registration numbers can be used to search for more information
about the specimens in the lichen type database on http://www.nrm.se/kbo/saml/lavtyp.html.en)
and the web site is: http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/kbo/ach/welcome.html.en
Cliff Wetmore's home page
- Cliff has created his new web page. It has a few links but he is also
adding Caloplaca keys and data. There is also a section on graduate
work there and the schedae for his recently issued Lich. Exs. Min. Later
he will be adding a lichen picture and more Caloplaca data. Check
it out and pass the word. Cliff would be happy to hear comments. Web site:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~wetmore
Lias Project
An online key of the 'Genera of
Lichenized and Lichenicolous Ascomycetes' by G. Rambold & D. Triebel
is now being offered at: http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/lias/liasonline.html.
It works as an MS Access(tm) database installed on a Windows NT(tm)
database server. Data are accessible to the public via a database application
'DeltaAccess' and the two different web interfaces DAP ('DeltaAccess Perl')
and DAWI ('DeltaAccess Web Interface'). Both interfaces are still beta
versions and under development. Only categorical characters from a total
of 93 characters and nearly 600 character states are used for the determination
of 795 genera. Query options by additional categorical and numerical characters
will be implemented to the web interfaces. In forthcoming versions, text
information (literature references, etc.) and full description output will
also be available, together with pure determination data. Log files of
the web server indicate that several hundred downloads of LIAS key modules
at: http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/
lias/modules.html. occurred during the last two years; however,
user feedback to help in the improvement of these keys was almost zero.
Resonance to improve the generic key data was also rather poor and less
than 50% of the genera have been checked by specialists so far. For this
reason, generic data still suffer from various shortcomings, e.g. by incompleteness
of data due to reading errors and overlooked literature or by unsettled
generic concepts. Thanks are due to A. Findling (Leibniz Rechenzentrum,
München) for building up DAWI and for the installation of both interfaces
on the LIAS web site, to G. Hagedorn (Biol. Bundesanstalt, Berlin), the
author of DeltaAccess, for various help, and to the revisers of data sets
listed at:
http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsamml/lias/genrev.html
G. 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.
-
Brazil: Grupo Brasileiro de Liquenòlogos
(GBL). Info: Dr. Marcelo P. Marcelli, Instituto de Botanica, Seçao
de Micologia e Liquenologia, Caixa Postal 4005, São Paulo/SP 01061-970,
Brazil.
-
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.
-
Latin America: Grupo Latinoamericano
de Liquenologos (GLAL). Info: Eugenia Cristina Goncalves Pereira, Caixa
Postal 4792, Recife/PE 50630-970, Brazil. E-mail: ecpereira@npd.ufpe.br.
-
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, East: Eastern Lichen
Network, Info via email: glennmar@shu.edu
(Dr. Marian Glenn).
-
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.