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Frank Dobson (author of the popular and well-respected "Lichens - An Illustrated Guide") has recently published a new "Field Key to Lichens on Trees". This book contains colour photographs and illustrated keys. These keys use only characters that are visible in the field, by eye, or under a x10 hand lens. This combination enables the user to identify over 500 species of lichens which are likely to be found on trees.
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This joint meeting with the British Lichen Society, British Mycological Society and the Linnean Society is due to take place on 17 October 2013 and will comprise:
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This is due to take place at the University of Nottingham, UK, on 10 and 11 January 2014. The theme is to be "New developments in lichenology: systematics,ecology, and use as indicators of envrironmental quality".
More details are given on our Events Calendar page.
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Wales is home to a large number of abandoned lead, copper and zinc mines and many of these are of exceptional importance for their metallophyte lichen flora.
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New! OPAL guides to lichens (and mosses) in orchards in the East of England. Congratulations to Mark Powell and the East of England team.
Click link to download http://www.opalexplorenature.org/discover-orchards
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One of Wales’ most important sites for lichens of ancient parkland and pasture woodland habitats will be designated a National Nature Reserve on 6th March 2013. Gregynog estate in Montgomeryshire is home to such rarities as Lecanora sublivescens (known worldwide from only the UK and Sweden); the UK endemic Entergrapha sorediata here at it's only site in Wales.
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The Field Studies Council (FSC) supported by Natural England and DEFRA have launched a new scheme aimed at creating a new pool of people with expertise in biological identifcation and recording, and encouraging volunteers to adopt particular taxon groups in order to build and share expertise.
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Lichenologist Sally Eaton makes her debut as a TV presenter in a new series on Channel 4 called Wild Things, with fellow presenters botanist Trevor Dines and landscape gardener Chris Myers.
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A flurry of new locations for Usnea articulata in South Wales suggests this species may be making a spectacular comeback. More details on the Wales Lichens website.
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The implications for lichens of the spread of Chalara Dieback of Ash, a disease of ash trees caused by the fungus Chalara fraxinea, could be very serious. Ash is one of our most common trees, both in woodlands and as isolated trees in fields and hedgerows.