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There remains a critical need to synthesize the vast amount of nomenclatural, taxonomical and global distributional data for liverworts and hornworts. This is fundamental in the efforts towards developing a working list of all known plant species under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Such a synthesis has far reaching implications and applications, including providing a valuable tool for taxonomists and systematists, analyzing phytogeographic and diversity patterns, aiding in the assessment of floristic and taxonomic knowledge, and identifying geographical gaps in our understanding of the global liverwort and hornwort flora. We here outline and discuss the methodology as part of an international consortium referred to as the Early Land Plants Today (ELPT) project.
An overview and full details of the project was published in Phytotaxa in 2010 and is freely available (access here)
Lichen collecting in the tropical rainforest of southern Thailand
My students and I are currently exploring the biological underpinnings of our human capacity to say hello even to strangers
With a number of distinguished colleagues, we have just published descriptions of two new species of small mammals (shrews) from the Albertine Rift (Bururi Forest, Burundi; Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Volunteers learn about winter tree identification at a workshop with Shirley Heinze Land Trust & The Field Museum 1/29/11.
The DNA Discovery Center has internships for high school students
Biologists estimate our planet harbors between 10 and 100 million species. These include approx. 100,000 fungi (including lichens) but the true number of fungi and lichens is estimated between 750,000 and 1.5 million. At this rate of discovery, it might seem impossible that the remaining species ever be described.
