Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Abstract Lichens are widely acknowledged to be a key component of high latitude ecosystems. However, the time investment needed for full inventories and the lack of taxonomic identification resources for crustose lichen and lichenicolous fungal diversity have hampered efforts to fully gauge the dept...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0024282920000079 2024-04-07T07:52:35+00:00 Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska Spribille, Toby Fryday, Alan M. Pérez-Ortega, Sergio Svensson, Måns Tønsberg, Tor Ekman, Stefan Holien, Håkon Resl, Philipp Schneider, Kevin Stabentheiner, Edith Thüs, Holger Vondrák, Jan Sharman, Lewis 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0024282920000079 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0024282920000079 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Lichenologist volume 52, issue 2, page 61-181 ISSN 0024-2829 1096-1135 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2020 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0024282920000079 2024-03-08T00:37:01Z Abstract Lichens are widely acknowledged to be a key component of high latitude ecosystems. However, the time investment needed for full inventories and the lack of taxonomic identification resources for crustose lichen and lichenicolous fungal diversity have hampered efforts to fully gauge the depth of species richness in these ecosystems. Using a combination of classical field inventory and extensive deployment of chemical and molecular analysis, we assessed the diversity of lichens and associated fungi in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (USA), a mixed landscape of coastal boreal rainforest and early successional low elevation habitats deglaciated after the Little Ice Age. We collected nearly 5000 specimens and found a total of 947 taxa, including 831 taxa of lichen-forming and 96 taxa of lichenicolous fungi together with 20 taxa of saprotrophic fungi typically included in lichen studies. A total of 98 species (10.3% of those detected) could not be assigned to known species and of those, two genera and 27 species are described here as new to science: Atrophysma cyanomelanos gen. et sp. nov., Bacidina circumpulla , Biatora marmorea , Carneothele sphagnicola gen. et sp. nov., Cirrenalia lichenicola , Corticifraga nephromatis , Fuscidea muskeg , Fuscopannaria dillmaniae , Halecania athallina , Hydropunctaria alaskana , Lambiella aliphatica , Lecania hydrophobica , Lecanora viridipruinosa , Lecidea griseomarginata , L. streveleri , Miriquidica gyrizans , Niesslia peltigerae , Ochrolechia cooperi , Placynthium glaciale , Porpidia seakensis , Rhizocarpon haidense , Sagiolechia phaeospora , Sclerococcum fissurinae , Spilonema maritimum , Thelocarpon immersum , Toensbergia blastidiata and Xenonectriella nephromatis . An additional 71 ‘known unknown’ species are cursorily described. Four new combinations are made: Lepra subvelata (G. K. Merr.) T. Sprib., Ochrolechia minuta (Degel.) T. Sprib., Steineropsis laceratula (Hue) T. Sprib. & Ekman and Toensbergia geminipara (Th. Fr.) T. Sprib. & Resl. Thirty-eight ... Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Alaska Cambridge University Press Glacier Bay The Lichenologist 52 2 61 181 |
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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Spribille, Toby Fryday, Alan M. Pérez-Ortega, Sergio Svensson, Måns Tønsberg, Tor Ekman, Stefan Holien, Håkon Resl, Philipp Schneider, Kevin Stabentheiner, Edith Thüs, Holger Vondrák, Jan Sharman, Lewis Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska |
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Abstract Lichens are widely acknowledged to be a key component of high latitude ecosystems. However, the time investment needed for full inventories and the lack of taxonomic identification resources for crustose lichen and lichenicolous fungal diversity have hampered efforts to fully gauge the depth of species richness in these ecosystems. Using a combination of classical field inventory and extensive deployment of chemical and molecular analysis, we assessed the diversity of lichens and associated fungi in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (USA), a mixed landscape of coastal boreal rainforest and early successional low elevation habitats deglaciated after the Little Ice Age. We collected nearly 5000 specimens and found a total of 947 taxa, including 831 taxa of lichen-forming and 96 taxa of lichenicolous fungi together with 20 taxa of saprotrophic fungi typically included in lichen studies. A total of 98 species (10.3% of those detected) could not be assigned to known species and of those, two genera and 27 species are described here as new to science: Atrophysma cyanomelanos gen. et sp. nov., Bacidina circumpulla , Biatora marmorea , Carneothele sphagnicola gen. et sp. nov., Cirrenalia lichenicola , Corticifraga nephromatis , Fuscidea muskeg , Fuscopannaria dillmaniae , Halecania athallina , Hydropunctaria alaskana , Lambiella aliphatica , Lecania hydrophobica , Lecanora viridipruinosa , Lecidea griseomarginata , L. streveleri , Miriquidica gyrizans , Niesslia peltigerae , Ochrolechia cooperi , Placynthium glaciale , Porpidia seakensis , Rhizocarpon haidense , Sagiolechia phaeospora , Sclerococcum fissurinae , Spilonema maritimum , Thelocarpon immersum , Toensbergia blastidiata and Xenonectriella nephromatis . An additional 71 ‘known unknown’ species are cursorily described. Four new combinations are made: Lepra subvelata (G. K. Merr.) T. Sprib., Ochrolechia minuta (Degel.) T. Sprib., Steineropsis laceratula (Hue) T. Sprib. & Ekman and Toensbergia geminipara (Th. Fr.) T. Sprib. & Resl. Thirty-eight ... |
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Spribille, Toby Fryday, Alan M. Pérez-Ortega, Sergio Svensson, Måns Tønsberg, Tor Ekman, Stefan Holien, Håkon Resl, Philipp Schneider, Kevin Stabentheiner, Edith Thüs, Holger Vondrák, Jan Sharman, Lewis |
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Spribille, Toby Fryday, Alan M. Pérez-Ortega, Sergio Svensson, Måns Tønsberg, Tor Ekman, Stefan Holien, Håkon Resl, Philipp Schneider, Kevin Stabentheiner, Edith Thüs, Holger Vondrák, Jan Sharman, Lewis |
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Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska |
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Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska |
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Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska |
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Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska |
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Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska |
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lichens and associated fungi from glacier bay national park, alaska |
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