Consortium of Lichen Herbaria Inventory Project

Inventory Projects

Arctic Flora

Managers: Arctic Lichen Biodiversity Project

Central America (Centroamérica)

Managers: Frank Bungartz

Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize

Ecuador

Managers: Alba Yánez-Ayabaca, Tania Oña, Ángel Raymundo Benítez Chávez, Fredy Nugra & Frank Bungartz

El Inventario de Líquenes del Ecuador es administrado por el Grupo Ecuatoriano de Liquenología (GEL). El objetivo principal del proyecto es agregar información sobre la biodiversidad de los hongos liquenizados del país.

Florida

Managers: Roger Rosentreter & Ann DeBolt

Georgia

Managers: Malcolm Hodges

Global Checklists of Lichens & Lichenicolous Fungi

Managers: Frank Bungartz, Robert Lücking, Paul Diederich, Adriano Spielmann & Gary Perlmutter

Global IUCN Red-Lists

Managers: Frank Bungartz, Jessica Allen & Rebecca Yahr

In collaboration with the IUCN Lichen Species Specialist group the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria here provides access to three global IUCN assessment lists: Global IUCN Red-List of All Species of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi. Global IUCN Red-List of Threatened Species of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi. Global IUCN List of Least Concern Species of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi.

For best practices how to apply IUCN red-listing criteria to lichenized fungi please refer to this recent open-access paper in The Lichenologist:
Yahr R, Allen JL, Atienza V, Bungartz F, Chrismas N, Dal Forno M, Degtjarenko P, Ohmura Y, Pérez-Ortega S, Randlane T, Reese Næsborg R, Simijaca-Salcedo D, von Hirschheydt G, Anderson F, Aptroot A, Balderas E, Borukhiyah N, Chandler AM, Chesa Marro M, Divakar PK, García RA, Herrera-Campos MÁ, Howe N, Joseph S, Larsen EM, Lendemer JC, McMullin RT, Michlig A, Moncada B, Paulsen J, Roa-García F, Rosentreter R, Scheidegger C, Sparrius LB and Stone DF (2024) Red Listing lichenized fungi: best practices and future prospects. The Lichenologist 56: 345–362. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282924000355

Hawai'i

Managers: n/a

Idaho

Managers: Roger Rosentreter

Illinois

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Indiana

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Iowa

Managers: James Colbert

Kansas

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Kentucky

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Maine

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Maryland

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Massachusetts

Managers: Scott LaGreca

México

Managers: María de los Ángeles (Marusa) Herrera-Campos

Michigan

Managers: n/a

Minnesota

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Mississippi

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Missouri

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Montana

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Nebraska

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Nevada

Managers: Jason Hollinger

New Jersey

Managers: n/a

New Mexico

Managers: n/a

New York

Managers: Scott LaGreca

North America (USA, Canada & Mexico)

Managers: Frank Bungartz

North Carolina

Managers: Gary B. Perlmutter & Scott A. LaGreca

North Dakota

Managers: n/a

Ohio

Managers: n/a

Oklahoma

Managers: n/a

Oregon

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Pennsylvania

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South America

Managers: Not defined

South Carolina

Managers: Gary B. Perlmutter & Scott A. LaGreca

South Dakota

Managers: n/a

Southern Subpolar Region

Managers: Alan Fryday

The Southern Subpolar Region is here taken to be the area between the Antarctic Divergence and Subtropical Convergence. This region is often referred to as the Subantarctic, but that name refers to that part of the region south of the Antarctic Convergence, which has colder summers and a complete lack of arboreal vegetation (Øvstedal & Lewis Smith 2001). As trees are present on some of the areas under consideration they should not be considered "Subantarctic" and so the term "Southern Subpolar" is preferred.

The International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences (TDWG) (Brummitt 2001) include in their -Subantarctic Islands- region:
Australasia: Macquarie Island.
South Atlantic: Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands, Bouvetøya (all except the Falkland Islands included in Antarctica by Øvstedal & Lewis Smith 2001).
Indian Ocean: Tristan da Cunha & Gough Island, Prince Edward & Marion Islands, Crozet Island, Kerguelen, Heard & MacDonald Islands, St Paul Island & New Amsterdam.

This is the area used for this investigation, with the addition of the southern New Zealand Shelf Islands (Auckland Islands and Campbell Island) and the islands at the southern tip of South America: (e.g. Argentina: Tierra del Fuego (Isla Grande, Isla de los Estados); Chile: Cape Horn to Isla Wellington). Brummitt (loc. cit.) included these islands in the ‘New Zealand’ and ‘southern South America’ regions respectively, but I can see no reason to exclude these areas from the "Subantarctic" while including the Falkland Islands, and Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island.

Texas

Managers: n/a

U.S. National Parks

Managers: Jim Bennett

The U.S. National Park project contains over 29,000 records of documented occurrences of lichens in units of the U. S. National Park System. The records were obtained from the scientific literature, National Park Service reports, and the University of Minnesota Herbarium. Unpublished herbarium records from other herbaria are not included because they cannot be cited. Over 511 references reporting almost 2,550 lichen species from 151 park units are included. Only parks with reported lichens are included in the database. We have been unable to locate lichen references for other parks in the National Park system. Visit NPLichen: A Database of Lichens in the U.S. National Parks for more information on the project. All lichen names were standardized to Version 13 (2008) of Esslinger's Checklist of North American Lichens.

This database was developed jointly by James P. Bennett, U. S. Geological Survey and University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Clifford M. Wetmore, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. Funding for this database was provided by the U. S. Geological Survey, Madison, WI and the Great Lakes Network Office, National Park Service, Ashland, WI.

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Región Subpolar del Sur