Mixed-species forests in southern Fennoscandia have been subject to deforestation and degradation by land-use changes and intensive forest management. Given the importance of mixed forests for biodiversity and climate change adaptation, it is crucial to conserve remaining patches and manage them in ways that sustain or restore their associated habitats for biodiversity. We evaluated whether restorative selective cutting contributes to forest diversity by fostering tree-related microhabitats (TreMs). … Read more... 

[in Russian with English abstract:] This paper presents a list of 61 lichen species and one lichenicolous fungus collected in 2022 on Iturup I. Twenty-eight of these are new to the island. Among them Cetrelia monachorum and Ramalina litoralis are new to the Sakhalin Region, Mycobilimbia carneoalbida is new to the Kuril Islands, and four species (Cladonia deformis, Lecanora argopholis, Plectocarpon linitae, and Pseudephebe minuscula) are recorded for the first time on the Southern Kurils. New localities … Read more... 

[in Russian with English abstract: ] New data on the distribution, abundance, structure, and ecology of coenopopulations of Leptogium rivulare in the Kuloy Protected Area (Arkhangelsk Region, Russia) are presented. Until this study, only two records of the species, represented by single thalli, were known from the southeastern part of the region, at a considerable distance from the new locality. The species was recorded in the floodplain of the Kuloy River and its tributaries, the Kelda and Polta … Read more... 

[in Russian with English abstract: ] The epiphytic species Woessia lignicola, comb. nov., is newly reported for Asia and Russia from the Altai Territory (South Siberia). The species identity is supported by morphological examination and molecular-phylogenetic data (nrITS sequence). This finding extends the known distribution of the species eastward by more than 4000 km. In light of the recent resurrection of the genus Woessia, we propose the new combination W. lignicola (based on Bacidina lignicola). Keywords: … Read more... 

As part of ongoing efforts to document the lichen biota of the southern Philippines, we report 41 additional species as new records for the country, of which 14 are new to Southeast Asia and 4 species are new to Asia. The Philippine archipelago now emerges as one of the hotspots of pyrenocarpous lichens in Southeast Asia, with an updated list of 224 species, encompassing 39 genera and 10 families. Given the accelerating habitat loss and sporadic attention for lichens in the country, our findings … Read more...