Vegetatively reproducing lichenized fungi in neotropical lowland rainforests: A research projects financed by the Austrian Science Foundation has been performed in which epiphytic sterile lichens of rainforests have been investigated. Study sites are at the Surumoni river in southern Venezuela, in western Panama where STRI has established similar field work facilities, and the "Regenwald der Österreicher" in southern Costa Rica. Scientific collaborator in these projects was Barbara Emmerer. Publication of results achieved in these studies is continuing.
Biodiversity of lichens in Austria (a first checklist has been prepared in cooperation with R. Türk, Univ. Salzburg)
Biodiversity of lichens in the Alps (an multiauthored initiative of P.-L. Nimis, Univ. Trieste)
Biodiversity of lichens in Albania, Macaronesia, and the Sonoran Desert region (in cooperation with local lichenologists)
Biodiversity and indicator species of cryptogams in old growth forests
Red List of Endangered Lichens of Austria (in cooperation with R. Türk, Univ. Salzburg)
Higher taxa of lichenized Ascomycetes, especially taxonomy of Lecanorales on generic and suprageneric level
Taxonomy of several lecanoralean genera including Biatorella coll., Pyrrhospora, Pleopsidium, Megalaria, Lecidea piperis-group, Catillaria coll.
Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of lichenicolous fungi and lichens (worldwide)
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last modified: 02.10.2006