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Winter 2008 the California Lichen Society Seeks to Promote the Appreciation, Conservation and Study of Lichens Bulletin of the California Lichen Society Volume 15 No. 2 Winter 2008 The California Lichen Society seeks to promote the appreciation, conservation and study of lichens. The interests of the Society include the entire western part of the continent, although the focus is on California. Dues categories (in $US per year): Student and fixed income - $10, Regular - $20 ($25 for foreign members), Family - $25, Sponsor and Libraries - $35, Donor - $50, Benefactor - $100 and Life Membership - $500 (one time) payable to the California Lichen Society, P.O. Box 472, Fairfax, CA 94930. Members receive the Bulletin and notices of meetings, field trips, lectures and workshops. Board Members of the California Lichen Society: President: Erin Martin, shastalichens gmail.com Vice President: Michelle Caisse Secretary: Patti Patterson Treasurer: Cheryl Beyer Editor: Tom Carlberg Committees of the California Lichen Society: Data Base: Bill Hill, chairperson Conservation: Eric Peterson, chairperson Education/Outreach: Erin Martin, chairperson Poster/Mini Guides: Janet Doell, chairperson Events/field trips/workshops: Judy Robertson, chairperson The Bulletin of the California Lichen Society (ISSN 1093-9148) is edited by Tom Carlberg, tcarlberg7 yahoo.com. The Bulletin has a review committee including Larry St. Clair, Shirley Tucker, William Sanders, and Richard Moe, and is produced by Eric Peterson. The Bulletin welcomes manuscripts on technical topics in lichenology relating to western North America and on conservation of the lichens, as well as news of lichenologists and their activities. The best way to submit manuscripts is by e-mail attachments or on a CD in the format of a major word processor (DOC or RTF preferred). Submit a file without paragraph formatting; do include italics or underlining for scientific names. Figures may be submitted electronically or in hard copy. Figures submitted electronically should provide a resolution of 300 pixels-per-inch (600 minimum for line drawings in JPEG format); hard copy figures may be submitted as line drawings, unmounted black and white glossy photos or 35mm negatives or slides (B&W or color). Email submissions of figures are limited to 10 MB per email, but large files may be split across several emails or other arrangements can be made. Contact the Production Editor, Eric Peterson, at eric theothersideofthenet.com for details of submitting illustrations or other large files. A review process is followed. Nomenclature follows Esslinger cumulative checklist on-line at http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/esslinge/chcklst/chcklst7.htm. The editors may substitute abbreviations of author’s names, as appropriate, from R.K. Brummitt and C.E. Powell, Authors of Plant Names, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1992. Instructions to authors will soon be available on the Society’s web site (below). Style follows this issue. Electronic reprints in PDF format will be emailed to the lead author at no cost. The deadline for submitting material for the Summer 2009 CALS Bulletin is May 15 2009. The California Lichen Society is online at http://CaliforniaLichens.org and has email discussions through http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CaliforniaLichens. Volume 15 (2) of the Bulletin was issued 9 February 2009. Front cover: IAL collage, including Merrill Hall, Judy Robertson eyes Xanthoria pollinarioides, the CALS booth, and a background of Ramalina menzeisii. Photography by Eric Peterson. Bulletin of the California Lichen Society VOLUME 15 NO. 2 WINTER 2008 Report on the 6th IAL Symposium and ABLS Meeting Janet Doell 1200 Brickyard Way #302 Pt. Richmond, CA 94801 jkdoell sbcglobal.net A wonderful experience was made available to good, too, and very efficiently served. The presence California lichenologists this past summer when the of the ocean right across the street, and for some of International Association of Lichenologists chose us the large and beautiful swimming pool offered California for their first meeting ever to be held in the way more recreational activities than anyone had United States. The Asilomar Conference Center in time for. Ocean Grove, near Monterey, was a perfect venue for An amazing number of countries were such a gathering. The organizing committee, ably led represented in the symposia and posters which were by Tom Nash of the Arizona State University in presented by the participants. It seemed right and Tempe, Arizona, kept the 320 attendees busy all the proper, as the host country, for the United States to days and most of the evenings as well. Lichenologists lead the list, with 50 presentations. It is interesting to and would be lichenologists came from all over the see the number of countries and their contributions, world to listen, talk, and drown themselves in the sea which are laid out in Figure 1. of information which was roiling around them. Having determined that I was right about there Informal contact with these representatives of being a lot of countries contributing to this gala different countries was enabled by the way the dining occasion, now let's try to get some picture of what room was organized. Seating was always open, and if subjects were covered in the course of these five you chose to sit at a table with strangers they were no days. Combining the posters and the symposia, as longer strangers by the end of the meal. The food was they were in the abstracts list, there were 256 # of attendees 60 50 40 30 # of attendees of # # # of presentations 20 10 0 Italy USA India Peru Cuba Israel Spain Brazil China Japan Korea Poland Turkey Russia Mexico Finland Iceland Croatia Austria Estonia Ukraine Canada Belgium Norway Portugal Thailand Ecuador Slovakia Sweden Hungary Slovenia Australia Colombia Germany Sri Lanka Sri Argentina Venezuela Rica Costa Luxemburg Iran/Finland Switzerland Netherlands New Zealand New United Kingdom United CzechRepublic Country Figure 1. Number of IAL6 presentations by country. 25 BULLETIN OF THE CALIFORNIA LICHEN SOCIETY 15 (2), 2008 Doell – IAL Symposium presentations. In the space allotted, I can only touch keys on a web-based access system. Poster. on a few of the subjects discussed, but the following Switzerland. list will at least hint at the breadth of investigative • Niche partitioning in Alectorioid lichens: The reports given. role of physiological response patterns. Symposium. Canada. • New systematics and generic circumscription of parmelioid lichens inferred from multigene analysis provided by PARSYS-08. Symposium. All or nearly all countries participating. • Lichen photobiont diversity under changing pollution regimes. Symposium. UK. • A three-gene phylogeny of the order Arthoniales. Poster. Luxembourg. • Distinguishing lichen species and genera using ITS2 nrRNA sequence- structure. Poster. China. • Biotransformation of sesquiterpenes into essential oils by lichen mycobionts. Poster. Japan. • Toxic cyanobacteria in lichens. Poster. Finland. Figure 2. Janet Doell, CALS founder, with parts of • the society's display in the background. “LIAS light” -- an online identification tool for Photograph by Michelle Caisse. lichens. Poster. Germany/USA. • Paternity analyses reveal multiple mating events in apothecia of Lobaria pulmonaria. • Isolation and characterization of non- Symposium. Switzerland. • phototropic bacterial symbionts of Icelandic Xanthomendoza borealis -- a bipolar lichen. lichens. Poster. Iceland. Poster. Denmark. • • Vita interrupta: life that tolerates desiccation. Usnic acid production by culture of lichen- Symposium. USA. forming fungus of Usnea longissima. Poster. • Geographic structure of fungi and algae in a Korea. • widespread lichen of western North America. Gene flow in photobionts of the Parmeliaceae: Symposium. USA. hitch-hiking with soredia. Symposium. Canada. • • Decoding symbiosis: sequencing the genomes Toxic effects of two arid climate pollutants, of the lichen Cladonia grayi. Symposium. USA ozone (O3) and gaseous nitric acid (HNO3) on • The carbon balance of tropical bryophytes and two lichen species in the Los Angeles air basin. lichens: Carbon exchange and carbon pools Symposium. USA. • along an altitudinal. Lichens of Arasbaran Forest, NW of Iran. • Gradient from lowland to cloud forest in Poster. Finland and Iran. • Panamá. Symposium. Germany. Lichen and bryophyte signatures in 450-420 • Non-photosynthetic bacteria associated to million year old biological soil crust-like fossil cortical structure on Ramalina and Usnea thalli associations. Symposium. USA. • from Mexico. Poster. Spain. Gathering, maintenance and analysis of data on • A century of logging and forestry in a reindeer lichen diversity in southern Africa. Poster. herding area in northern Sweden. Symposium. Germany. • Sweden. A taxonomic study on the lichen genus • Preliminary study on possible distribution of Lecanora in Western China. Poster. China. tropical lichens under climate change. Poster. Thailand. Finally, let's see what some of the participants • “Invasive” or “in phases” -- how is the had to say about the impressions of IAL6 that they Galapagos lichen flora changing? Poster. took home with them: Ecuador. • In situ analysis of lichen-associated bacterial communities. Symposium. Austria. • Digital flora of the Swiss lichens: Interactive 26 BULLETIN OF THE CALIFORNIA LICHEN SOCIETY 15 (2), 2008 Doell – IAL Symposium IAL6 LETTERS Jennifer Riddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Adriano Alfonso Spielmann, Instituto De I enjoyed the conference tremendously. What Botanica, Sao Paulo, Brasil was especially beneficial was the opportunity not This was the
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