The next webinar will be devoted to “Lichens and Citizen Science” with Deborah Isocrono (Università di Torino, Italy). Citizen science (CS) engages public in research and has become a popular approach in many scientific fields, including the natural sciences. In this talk we present some CS projects involving lichens and …
The next Lichen Journal Club will happen on Thursday (November 16th) at 11 AM (CST time). We’ll discuss the paper “Can we trust iNaturalist in lichenology? Evaluating the effectiveness and reliability of artificial intelligence in lichen identification” by Munzi et al. (2023). More info here. Download the paper here.
The Cabinet of Lichens’ activities start with the presentation of online resources for (beginner) lichenologists. Frank Bungartz (Arizona State University) will present “A beginner’s course to managing records of lichenized fungi in the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria – managing specimen data, benefiting from taxonomic resources, and creating checklists”. The Consortium …
The next Lichen Journal Club will happen on Thursday (August 3rd) at 11 AM (CST time). We’ll discuss the paper “Water regulation dynamics of lichens as functional traits could predict future climate change scenarios in an elevational gradient from Central Argentina” by Dominguez et al. (2022). More info here.
The Questions and Answers session on 21st of July will be the last activity of the Cabinet Of Lichens before the summer break. Read more at https://ial-lichenology.org/the-cabinet-of-lichens/
A final bunch of presentations from the IAL9 meeting is available on the IAL YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@internationalassociationfo5577.
The last seminar (before summer) of the Cabinet of Lichens series is approaching. Holger Thüs (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany) and Gothamie Weerakoon (Natural History Museum, London, UK) will present “Thinking beyond the moment – a beginners guide to lichen collecting and collections”
The next Lichen Journal Club will happen on Thursday (June 15th) at 11 AM (CST time). We’ll discuss the paper “Nuanced qualitative trait approaches reveal environmental filtering and phylogenetic constraints on lichen communities” by Koch et al. (2022). More info here.
Ready for the second seminar of the Cabinet of Lichens series! Adriano Spielmann – Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil – will present “Microscopic and macroscopic characters: What to look at in lichen identification.
We are pleased to announce the first Canadian IAL lichen foray in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on Sept. 7–10, 2023! Organized by Toby Spribille, Diane Haughland & Bruce McCune, is open to members of the IAL. Lichenologists of all experience levels are welcome. Participants will have an opportunity …
