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The Bryological Times J UNE-J ULY 2011 ROANOKE COLLEGE I SSUE 133 The Bryological Times J UNE-J ULY 2011 Table of Contents Editor Note p. 2 Fungi, Lichen and Bryophyte Workshop in Panama p. 2 Book Review: Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 138 and 139 p. 3, 21 Australian National Botanic Gardens: Lichens Website p. 4 Gesneriaceae of South China p. 4 Crum Bryophyte Workshop p. 5 Tools, Tips, and Techniques p. 5, 9 Book Review: Compilation of Musci in Symbolae sinicae p. 6 365nm-UV-Lichen candelaris p. 7 Lindbergia goes Open Access! p.8 IAB blog update p. 8 IAB membership dues p. 10 Stephensoniella brevipedunculata rediscovered p. 11 ABLS 2011: A Meeting and an Adventure! p. 12 European Committee for the Conservation of Bryophytes News p. 13 Carnets de bryologie & TROPICOS p. 13 IAB The National Symposium of the Bryological Society of China p. 14 Bryological Theses p. 15 News from Helsinki p. 16 Moss 2011 p. 17 Book Reviews: 3 of Zhang‟s works p. 18 Book Review: Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change p. 19, 20 ROANOKE COLLEGE I SSUE 133 The Bryological Times J UNE-J ULY 2011 Editor’s Note By DorothyBelle Poli Welcome to July 2011. tips of the trade. Enjoy as may be doing. We need you Here in Roanoke, the you read along. to help make The Bryologi- weather has been very As always, The Bryo- cal Times a success. hot, humid, and full of SPECIAL POINTS OF logical Times is always If you notice that your INTEREST: thunderstorms. As we looking for submissions. part of the world is not rep- dodge the rain, we are Please send us the latest resented, please let me Many book reviews excited to learn about information that should be know at [email protected] what the bryological spread to the bryological and I will try to remedy that Websites that keep us up- world has been doing. community. Tell us what situation right away. to-date are announced This issue is full of news your lab is doing, grant Now, go and make the Workshops and meetings from societies, work- successes, and of course shops, book reviews, and most of this issue! Enjoy keep us up-to-date on what your summer. Tips, Tools, and Tech- your country‟s society niques FUNGI, LICHEN AND BRYOPHYTE WORKSHOP IN PANAMA By Noris Salazar Allen A five day workshop (14 -18 student Matt Nielsen (F) on sites related to the groups March) on fungi, lichens and lichens; Matthew von Konrat under study. Sixteen students bryophytes was held at the (F) and Gregorio Dauphin attended the seminar; among Department of Botany of the (Technologic University of these, two from Guatemala University of Panama. It in- Costa Rica) on liverworts, and and three from the University cluded a one-day field trip to by Noris on mosses. The lec- of Chiriquí (UNACHI). Also, Parque Nacional Altos de tures covered aspects of the Mervin E. Pérez (Guatemala), Campana. The workshop was morphology, evolution, sys- who recently finished his Mas- organized ters with Inés Sas- by Noris tre De Jesús in Salazar Puerto Rico, and Allen and Master student in professors Plant Biology, of the Eyvar Rodríguez Depart- (UNACHI) gave ment of talks on their grad- Botany uate research in jointly bryology. The with per- workshop was sonnel of partially financed The Field by grants from Museum in NSF and the Cater- Chicago pillar Company to (F), USA. instructors from the Lectures Field Museum and and laboratory sessions were tematics and ecology of these the Colegio de Biólogos given by Sabine Huhndorf (F), organisms, multivariate meth- (Association of Biologists) of Julieta Carranza (University ods in ecological work, the Panama. of Costa Rica) on fungi; Rob- preparation and uses of inter- ert Lücking (F), Thorsten active keys, and the uses of Lumbsch (F) and graduate electronic devices and Web P AGE 3 I SSUE 133 Book Review: Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 138 and 139 by Johannes Enroth Frey, W. (ed) 2010: Bryophyte systemat- pus laevigatus. The following paper Chile. It has 157 species of mossed re- ics, phytodiversity, phytosociology and revises the European species (five) of ported so far, and an identification key ecology. Festschrift in honour of Profes- Oxystegus based on the nuclear ITS plus a checklist of them are provided. sor Dr. Harald Kürschner. Nova Hed- region. ITS is also employed in the This section is concluded with the first wigia Beiheft 138: 1–333. Paperback, third paper, which shows that Palustri- records of Kurzia setiformis and Anastro- ISBN 978-3-443-51060-2. Price € 139.00, ella pluristratosa is a synonym of P. phyllum involutifolium from Île Amster- www.borntraeger- falcata. In the next paper, the phytoge- dam in the southern Indian Ocean, both cramer.de/9783443510602 ographic significance of Forsstroemia records being remarkable range exten- remotifolia (comb. nov.) is discussed, sions for the two species. and the last moss taxonomic contribu- The three papers in the Phytosociology- Kürschner, H. & Frey, W. 2011: Liver- tion is a morphometric analysis of the worts, mosses and hornworts of South- section are based on the Braun-Blanquet five species of Gymnostomiella. The -system. The first one examines the phy- west Asia. Marchantiophyta, Bryophyta, Systematics-section further contains Anthocerotophyta. Nova Hedwigia Bei- togeographical composition of the trunk- three papers that focus on the liverwort epiphytic bryophyte communities in heft 139: 1–240. Paperback, ISBN 978-3- family Lejeuneaceae, especially its 443-51061-9. Price € 108.00, Ecuador, being the seventh paper in a African taxa. A report from Gabon series of papers. Nine phytogeographic www.borntraeger- describes the new species Ceratolejeu- cramer.de/9783443510619 elements are represented in the commu- nea kuerschneri and further records 20 nities, the relative proportions of the species previously unknown from the elements changing with altitude. The country. This is followed by a paper Beiheft 138 second paper is a contribution to the describing three new species in Lejeu- bryosociology of the small island of Li- I am sure Prof. Harald Kürschner‟s name nea (one from Kenya, two from Mada- nosa between Africa and Sicily. Four is known to every bryologist; so significant gascar). The last paper discusses associations are reported as new for the and manifold are his contributions to the Lejeunea subg. Nanolejeunea. island. The third paper describes a new field. The Beiheft 138 of Nova Hedwigia is In the Phytodiversity-section, four of association, Fissidento adianthoidis – dedicated to him on the occasion of his the papers report new taxa for various Dichelymetum capillacei, from the SW 60th birthday that took place last year. The countries or areas in the Mediterranean of France. contents of the volume reflect the many- region. The flora of Greece gains 28 sidedness of Prof. Kürschner‟s research, The final section, Ecology, has three species, and that of Montenegro is being divided under the headings System- quite different papers. The first one sur- expanded by 23 taxa. Two papers deal atics (eight papers), Phytodiversity (nine veys the genus Porella in Madeira, espe- with the Orthotrichaceae; 19 species papers), Phytosociology (three papers), and cially the influence of various environ- are recorded as new for the NE part of Ecology (three papers). mental factors on the distribution of the Turkey, and Zygodon forsteri is report- species and their morphology. The se- The editor Prof. Frey has written a tribute ed as new for the country (and SW cond paper should be of wide interest to Kürschner, introducing his academic Asia). Have you heard of the Sel- also outside of strict bryology, as it stud- career and numerous research projects, vagens Islands? I certainly hadn‟t, but ies the diversity of epiphytic bryophytes many of which have focused on Southwest now I know they are located between under different land-use types in the Asia. It is followed by a list of publications Madeira and the Canary Islands and tropical America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Cos- which, if I counted correctly, contains a have no less and no more than 16 bry- ta Rica) and in Indonesia (Sulawesi). stunning 241 titles in about 33 years, mak- ophytes recorded so far. A checklist of Both the species loss and turnover were ing an average of 7.3 papers per year! the Gymnomitriaceae in the Sino- the greatest between natural forests and Since the content list is available in the Himalayan region contains 23 species young fallows and cocoa plantations, above URL-address, I do not cite every and five genera. The Pottiaceae are being respectively 65–80 % and 75 %. paper here, but rather present on overview well represented in this volume; for temperate moss species. of the topics and some of the main results. example, 41 (!) species are reported The first paper in the Systematics-section for the first time from Pakistan. In the Continued on page 21 aptly describes a new moss genus from other side of the world, Isla Navarino Brazil, Kuerschneria, based on Rhacocar- is one of the southernmost islands of P AGE 4 I SSUE 133 Australian National Botanic Gardens: Lichens Website The Australian National Botanic nal Botanic Gardens enabling us Gardens (http:// to contract Heino Lepp [an asso- World renowned lichenologist www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/) and ciate of the Australian National Emeritus Professor Jack Elix the Friends of the Gardens Herbarium, Centre for Austra- provided expert technical advice (http://www.friendsanbg.org.au/) lian National Biodiversity on all of the written content. will be officialy launching the Research (http:// Australian Lichen website, the www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/ ) and So please take a look at this third in a series on cryptogams resident mycologist] to create great resource which is aimed at (fungi: http://www.anbg.gov.au/ the content of the website, inclu- informing an interested public fungi and bryophytes: http:// ding text and photos.
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