JJH Katalog - Lichenological literature

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Fos Martín S. (2023): Aproximació al coneixement de la biota liquènica de la comarca de l’Horta Sud (València) - Annals de la delegació de la Garrotxa de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural, 12[2022]: 79–136

[in Catalan, with an illustrative photodocumentation] La recopilació de les dades disponibles sobre la biota liquènica de la comarca de l’Horta Sud ha permés l’elaboració d’un catàleg preliminar amb 66 fongs liquenitzats. Tot i tractar-se d’un territori fortament antropitzat, amb grans extensions ocupades per àrees urbanes i industrials i per infraestructures viàries o dedicades a l’agricultura, alberga algunes espècies poc citades a la Comunitat Valenciana, com ara Enchylium … Read more...

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Marginson H., MacMillan G.A., Grant E., Gérin-Lajoie J. & Amyot M. (2023): Rare earth element bioaccumulation and cerium anomalies in biota from the Eastern Canadian subarctic (Nunavik) - Science of The Total Environment, 879: 163024 [12 p.]

Recent increases in the demand for rare earth elements (REE) have contributed to various countries' interest in exploration of their REE deposits, including within Canada. Current limited knowledge of REE distribution in undisturbed subarctic environments and their bioaccumulation within northern species is addressed through a collaborative community-based environmental monitoring program in Nunavik (Quebec, Canada). This study provides background REE values (lanthanides + yttrium) and investigates … Read more...

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Ikeda M.A., Nakamura H. & Sawada K. (2023): Aliphatic hydrocarbons in the lichen class Lecanoromycetes and their potential use as chemotaxonomic indicators and biomarkers - Organic Geochemistry, 179: 104588 [11 p.]

Lichens are found in a wide range of terrestrial habitats and have important roles in terrestrial ecosystems. However, because lichens are easily decomposed and are rarely preserved as fossils, their paleoenvironmental ecology and evolutionary history remain a mystery. We performed lipid analyses on 29 lichen samples belonging to Lecanoromycetes, the largest class of lichens, from several locations in Japan, to determine their potential for use as taxonomic tools and biomarkers. We found that the … Read more...

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Vereshchagin O.S., Frank-Kamenetskaya O.V., Vlasov D.Yu., Zelenskaya M.S., Rodina O.A., Chernyshova I.A., Himelbrant D.E., Stepanchikova I.S. & Britvin S.N. (2023): Microbial biomineralization under extreme conditions: Case study of basaltic rocks, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia - Catena, 226: 107048 [14 p.]

Microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and others) are considered to be the pioneers of the settlement under extreme conditions and take an active part in biomineralization and soil formation. We studied biofilms and for the first time identified the presence of microbial biomineralization in extreme conditions of Tolbachik Volcano area, Russia. Rock samples with lichen / cyanobacteria biofilms were studied by a complex of methods (optical and scanning electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive … Read more...

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Pinna D., Mazzotti V., Gualtieri S., Voyron S., Andreotti A. & Favero-Longo S.E. (2023): Damaging and protective interactions of lichens and biofilms on ceramic dolia and sculptures of the International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy - Science of the Total Environment, 877: 162607 [16 p.]

Although ceramic objects are an important part of the worldwide cultural heritage, few investigations on the effects of lithobiontic growth on their outdoor conservation are available in the literature. Many aspects of the interaction between lithobionts and stones are still unknown or strongly debated, as in the case of equilibria between biodeterioration and bioprotection. This paper describes research on the colonization by lithobionts on outdoor ceramic Roman dolia and contemporary sculptures … Read more...

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Kasprzyk I. (2023): Forensic botany: who?, how?, where?, when? - Science and Justice, 63: 258–275

Plants are a good source of biological forensic evidence; this is due to their ubiquity, their ability to collect reference material, and their sensitivity to environmental changes. However, in many countries, botanical evidence is recognised as being scientifically. Botanical evidence is not mostly used for perpertration, instead it tends to serve as circumstantial evidence. Plant materials constitute the basis, among others, for linking a suspect or object to a crime scene or a victim, confirming … Read more...

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Almer J., Resl P., Gudmundsson H., Warshan D., Andrésson Ó.S. & Werth S. (2023): Symbiont-specific responses to environmental cues in a threesome lichen symbiosis - Molecular Ecology, 32: 1045–1061

Photosymbiodemes are a special case of lichen symbiosis where one lichenized fungus engages in symbiosis with two different photosynthetic partners, a cyanobacterium and a green alga, to develop two distinctly looking photomorphs. We compared gene expression of thallus sectors of the photosymbiodeme-forming lichen Peltigera britannica containing cyanobacterial photobionts with thallus sectors with both green algal and cyanobacterial photobionts and investigated differential gene expression at different … Read more...

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Crittenden P.D., Ellis C.J., Smith R.I., Wanek W. & Thornton B. (2023): Loss of nitrogen fixing capacity in a montane lichen is linked to increased nitrogen deposition - Journal of Ecology, 111: 280–299

The circumboreal/circumpolar N2-fixing lichen Stereocaulon vesuvianum is among the most widespread and abundant fruticose species in montane Britain but has lost the capacity to fix N2 over large areas of the country. To investigate whether loss of N2-fixation in S. vesuvianum is linked to increased N deposition, we examined thallus morphology, physiology and chemistry at twelve locations representing an N deposition gradient of 3–40 kg ha−1 year−1. Measurements were made in parallel on … Read more...

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Hardouin M.E. & Hargreaves A.L. (2023): Mapping nationally and globally at-risk species to identify hotspots for (and gaps in) conservation - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1995): 20222307 [11 p.]

Protecting habitat of species at risk is critical to their recovery, but can be contentious. For example, protecting species that are locally imperilled but globally common is often thought to distract from protecting globally imperilled species. However, such perceived trade-offs are based on the assumption that threatened groups have little spatial overlap, which is rarely quantified. We compiled range maps of terrestrial species at risk in Canada to assess the geographic overlap of nationally … Read more...

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Chen X., Yan D., Yu L. & Zhang T. (2023): An integrative study of mycobiome in different habitats from a High Arctic region: diversity, distribution, and functional role - Journal of Fungi, 9(4): 437 [13 p.]

In the Arctic ecosystems, fungi are crucial for interactions between soil and plants, the cycling of nutrients, and the transport of carbon. To date, no studies have been conducted to thoroughly examine the mycobiome and its functional role in various habitats of the High Arctic region. The aim was to unravel the mycobiome in the nine habitats (i.e., soil, lichen, vascular plant, moss, freshwater, seawater, marine sediment, dung, and marine alga) in the Ny-Ålesund Region (Svalbard, High Arctic) … Read more...