Botany 2001
"Plants and People"

Abstracts received so far:

1. BELL, NEIL E.* AND ANGELA E. NEWTON. - Phylogenetic studies of the Rhizogoniaceae (Bryales): unravelling the origins of pleurocarpy. [Poster]
2. BONINE, MARY L.* AND LLOYD R. STARK. - Growth and gametangial maturation in the desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis.
3. BRAGGINS, JOHN E., JOHN J. ENGEL, MATTHEW J. VON KONRAT*, AND PETER J. DE LANGE. - Rare and threatened liverworts: an overlooked area of conservation in the New Zealand botanical region.
4. BRAY, JR., JAMES R., ABEL J. KINSER*, AND BARBARA J. CRANDALL-STOTLER. - Community Structure and Spore Bank Dynamics in the Fossombroniineae of South-central Texas. [Poster]
5. BRODO, IRWIN M. - Patterns of distribution for North American lichens.
6. BUNGARTZ, FRANK* AND THOMAS H. NASH III. - Is Buellia subalbula (Nyl.) Müll. Arg. a "Diplotomma" with one-septate ascospores?
7. COX, CYMON J.*, A. JONATHAN SHAW, AND SANDRA B. BOLES. - Toward a sub-familial classification of the recircumscribed Mniaceae (Bryopsida).
8. DAVIS, CHRISTINE. - Molecular identification of endophytic Xylariaceae (Ascomycota) from Jamaican species of Bazzania (Lepidoziaceae: Jungermanniopsida).
9. DE LUNA, EFRAIN* AND BEATRIZ BIASUSO. - Morphometric variation and species delimitation in the Braunia exserta complex (Hedwigiaceae).
10. DILLMAN, KAREN L.*, LINDA H. GEISER, JIM RILEY, AND GARY LAURSEN. - Lichens of the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes of Northwestern Alaska. [Poster]
11. EVERSMAN, SHARON*, CLIFFORD M. WETMORE, KATHERINE GLEW, AND JAMES P. BENNETT. - Lichen ecology in Yellowstone National Park. [Poster]
12. FAHSELT, DIANNE. - Detection of pigments in specimens of recent and subfossil Umbilicaria from north Greenland.
13. FUSELIER, LINDA C.* AND D. NICHOLAS MCLETCHIE. - Sex-specific and environment-dependent phenotypic selection on pre-adult traits in Marchantia inflexa.
14. GOFFINET, BERNARD*, A. JONATHAN SHAW, AND SANDRA BOLES. - Multigene phylogenetic reconstruction of the family Orthotrichaceae (Bryophyta).
15. HASTINGS, ROXANNE I.* AND DONNA M. CHERNIAWSKY. - Species separation in the Grimmia longirostris-G. pilifera (Grimmiaceae) complex in North America. [Poster]
16. HAX, NEVA P.* AND BERNARD GOFFINET. - Systematic inferences in Bryoxiphium based on morphological and molecular characters.
17. INDOE, KEVIN E. - The New York Botanical Garden's American Bryophyte Catalog. [Poster]
18. JONES, NICOLE L.*, SHARON E. BARTHOLOMEW-BEGAN, AND TATSUWO FURUKI. - A preliminary overview of gemmae morphologies in Cavicularia densa Steph. [Poster]
19. KOBIYAMA, YUKI. - Diversity of central strand structure in the Metzgeriidae.
20. KRAYESKY, DAVID M. AND BARBARA J. CRANDALL-STOTLER.* - An SEM Photo Atlas of Spore Terminology in the Fossombroniineae.
21. LAWREY, JAMES D.*, PAUL DIEDERICH, AND PAULA T. DEPRIEST. - Genetic differentiation among populations of the widespread lichenicolous fungus Marchandiomyces corallinus.
22. MCLETCHIE, D. NICHOLAS*, GISELA GARCIA-RAMOS, AND PHILIP H. CROWLEY. - A model of local sex-ratio dynamics and spore production in the dioecious liverwort Marchantia inflexa.
23. MORGAN, SARA M. AND ROBERT S. EGAN.* - Lichens of the ponderosa pine forests of Nebraska. [Poster]
24. NOBLE, SARAH MARIE* AND DAVID K. SMITH. - Floristic and ecological studies of bryophytes in a Southern Appalachian gorge. [Poster]
25. O'BRIEN, TERRY J. - The dubious origins of pleurocarpous mosses: molecular evidence for the phylogenetic positions of Aulacomnium Schwägr. and Rhizogoniaceae.
26. OLIVER, MELVIN J.*, JOHN A. WHEELER, BRENT D. MISHLER, AND JEFF VELTEN. - A bryophyte rehydrin trackable marker for the evolution of desiccation tolerance.
27. PETERSON, ERIC B. - Tour of a lichenological black-hole (Nevada).
28. PETERSON, ERIC B.* AND PETER NEITLICH. - Lichen communities, pollution signals, and an issue of scale.
29. PUTERBAUGH, MARY N. - Preliminary investigation of the interaction between the liverwort Frullania eborascensis and Bdelloid rotifers. [Poster]
30. RISK, ALLEN C. - On the distribution, abundance, biology, and habitat of Fissidens hyalinus Wils. & Hook.
31. SAVILLO, ISIDRO. - Growth of Lichens on Palm Trees.
32. SCHOENINGER, ROBIN*, CORINNA GRIES, AND THOMAS H. NASH. - Herbarium Databases: Creation, Maintenance and Access via the Internet. [Poster]
33. SCHOENINGER, ROBIN*, THOMAS H. NASH, AND JACK A. ELIX. - The chemistry of Acarospora subgenus Xanthothallia (Lichenized Ascomycete, Lecanorales) in Southwestern North America. [Poster]
34. SCHUETTE, SCOTT W. - Morphology of the simple thalloid liverwort Jensenia Lindb. (Pallaviciniaceae).
35. SELF, SHERRY L.* AND BARBARA J. CRANDALL-STOTLER. - The systematic status of Pellia X appalachiana.
36. SELVA, STEVEN B. - Coniocybe gracilescens and Sphinctrinas with 2-celled spores.
37. SHAW, JON. - What can molecular data tell us about species delineation in the peatmosses (Sphagnum)?
38. SMAW, SHERCODA*, LAFAYETTE FREDERICK, AND RAYMOND L. PETERSEN. - The urban moss Bryum capillare Hedw.: cyanobacterial and agal assoicates as biogenic crusts. [Poster]
39. ST. CLAIR, SAMUEL B.*, LARRY L. ST. CLAIR, NOLAN F. MANGELSON, DARRELL J. WEBER, AND ALAN WHALON. - Using Cu/Zn ratios in lichens to determine anthropomorphic sources of copper pollution.
40. STARK, LLOYD R.* AND CLAUDIO DELGADILLO M. - Is Crossidium really an annual? Initial observations from the Mojave Desert.
41. SYDNEY, CAREY* AND D. NICHOLAS MCLETCHIE. - Testing for sex-specific life history traits under field conditions in a dioecious liverwort. [Poster]
42. WALL, DENNIS P. - Population structure and patterns of island radiation in the paleotropic endemic moss, Mitthyridium: insights from a rapidly evolving nuclear gene, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpd).
43. YIP, KWOK LEUNG. - A revision of the genus Pleuridium (Ditrichaceae, Musci).