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https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=antarctic_peninsula_lichens
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Photodocumentation_of_Antarctic_Peninsula_Lichens
Paula Casanovas
University of Canterbury
School of Biological SciencesChristchurch8041NEW_ZEALAND
paulacasanovas@gmail.com
Paula Casanovas
University of Canterbury
School of Biological SciencesChristchurch8041NEW_ZEALAND
paulacasanovas@gmail.com
Paula Casanovas
University of Maryland
3205 Bio-Psych buildingCollege ParkMaryland20742UNITED_STATES
3015479899paulacasanovas@gmail.comhttp://www.clfs.umd.edu/biology/faganlab/people/casanovas.html AUTHOR
Heather Lynch
Stony Brook UniversityAssociate Professor
113 Life Sciences Bldg, Ecology & Evolution DepartmentStony BrookNew York11794UNITED_STATES
heather.lynch@stonybrook.eduhttp://lynchlab.com/ AUTHOR
Ron Naveen
Oceanites IncFounder and President
P.O. Box 15259Chevy ChaseMaryland20825UNITED_STATES
ron@oceanites.orghttp://www.oceanites.org/ AUTHOR
William Fagan
University of MarylandProfessor
3205 Bio-Psych buildingCollege ParkMaryland20742UNITED_STATES
bfagan@glue.umd.eduhttp://www.clfs.umd.edu/biology/faganlab/ AUTHOR
2019-03-19
ENGLISH
As part of the Antarctic Site Inventory (e.g. Lynch et al. 2012, Naveen and Lynch 2011), we have developed a database and gathered photographic information on lichen richness for sites that are frequently visited by tourists on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Antarctic Peninsula
parataxonomic units
lichens
citizen science
detectability.
n/a
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
http://www.oceanites.org
Antarctic Peninsula
-73.28
-41.33
-58
-68.84
2011-11-10
2011-11-10
lichens (parataxonomy)
Acarospora
Acarospora badiofusca
Acarospora convoluta
Acarospora flavocordia
Acarospora gwynii
Acarospora macrocyclos
Acarospora wahlenbergii
Acarospora williamsii
Agonimia tristicula
Alectoria nigricans
Amandinea
Amandinea coniops
Amandinea petermannii
Amandinea punctata
Amandinea subplicata
Aspicilia
Aspicilia aquatica
Bacidia johnstonii
Bellemerea
Bellemerea alpina
Bellemerea subsorediza
Bryoria
Buellia
Buellia anisomera
Buellia augusta
Buellia babingtonii
Buellia bouvetii
Buellia cladocarpiza
Buellia darbishirei
Buellia evanescens
Buellia falklandica
Buellia frigida
Buellia granulosa
Buellia grimmiae
Buellia grisea
Buellia illaetabilis
Buellia isabellina
Buellia latemarginata
Buellia melanostola
Buellia pallida
Buellia papillata
Buellia perlata
Buellia pycnogonoides
Buellia russa
Buellia soredians
Buellia subfrigida
Buellia subpedicellata
Caloplaca
Caloplaca ammiospila
Caloplaca approximata
Caloplaca cirrochrooides
Caloplaca citrina
Caloplaca diphyodes
Caloplaca holocarpa
Caloplaca iomma
Caloplaca lucens
Caloplaca millegrana
Caloplaca regalis
Caloplaca saxicola
Caloplaca schofieldii
Caloplaca sublobulata
Candelaria
Candelaria murrayi
Candelariella
Candelariella aurella
Candelariella flava
Candelariella vitellina
Catillaria
Cetraria islandica
Cladonia
Cladonia fimbriata
Cladonia sulphurina
Coccotrema
Coelopogon epiphorellum
Collema
Collema ceraniscum
Collema coccophorum
Collema tenax
Dermatocarpon polyphyllizum
Fuscidea
Fuscopannaria praetermissa
Grass
Haematomma
Haematomma erythromma
Himantormia lugubris
Lecania brialmontii
Lecania gerlachei
Lecania nylanderiana
Lecania racovitzae
Lecanora
Lecanora alutacea
Lecanora atromarginata
Lecanora dancoensis
Lecanora expectans
Lecanora flotowiana
Lecanora frustulosa
Lecanora geophila
Lecanora griseosorediata
Lecanora intricata
Lecanora mons-nivis
Lecanora parmelinoides
Lecanora physciella
Lecanora polytropa
Lecidea
Lecidea atrobrunnea
Lecidea cancriformis
Lecidea lapicida
Lecidea placodiiformis
Lecidea silacea
Lecidea spheniscidarum
Lecidella
Lecidella patavina
Lecidella siplei
Lecidella sublapicida
Lecidoma demissum
Lepraria
Lepraria borealis
Lepraria caesioalba
Lepraria neglecta
Leproloma cacuminum
Leptogium puberulum
Lichenothelia
Lichenothelia antarctica
Massalongia carnosa
Ochrolechia
Ochrolechia frigida
Ochrolechia parella
Ochrolechia tartarea
Pannaria austro-orcadensis
Pannaria hookeri
Parmelia cunninghamii
Pertusaria
Pertusaria coccodes
Pertusaria corallophora
Pertusaria erubescens
Pertusaria excludens
Pertusaria spegazzinii
Phaeophyscia endococcina
Phaeorrhiza nimbosa
Physcia
Physcia caesia
Physcia dubia
Physconia muscigena
Placopsis
Placopsis contortuplicata
Platismatia glauca
Pleopsidium chloropahnum
Pleopsidium chlorophanum
Protothelenella sphinctrinoidella
Pseudephebe minuscula
Pseudephebe pubescens
Psoroma cinnamomeum
Pyrenopsis
Ramalina
Ramalina terebrata
Rhizocarpon
Rhizocarpon adarense
Rhizocarpon disporum
Rhizocarpon geminatum
Rhizocarpon geographicum
Rhizocarpon superficiale
Rhizoplaca
Rhizoplaca aspidophora
Rhizoplaca melanophthalma
Rimularia impavida
Rimularia psephota
Rinodina
Rinodina archaea
Rinodina endophragmia
Rinodina occulta
Rinodina olivaceobrunnea
Rinodina peloleuca
Sphaerophorus globosus
Sporastatia
Sporastatia polyspora
Sporastatia testudinea
Staurothele
Staurothele frustulenta
Stereocaulon
Stereocaulon ramulosum
Tephromela atra
Turgidosculum complicatum
Umbilicaria
Umbilicaria antarctica
Umbilicaria aprina
Umbilicaria cristata
Umbilicaria decussata
Umbilicaria kappeni
Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii
Umbilicaria polyphylla
Umbilicaria thamnodes
Umbilicaria umbilicarioides
Usnea
Usnea acromelana
Usnea antarctica
Usnea sphacelata
Usnea subantarctica
Verrucaria
Verrucaria ceuthocarpa
Verrucaria elaeoplaca
Verrucaria psychrophila
Xanthoria
Xanthoria Candelaria
Xanthoria elegans
Xanthoria mawsonii
unkown
Paula Casanovas
University of Canterbury
School of Biological SciencesChristchurch8041NEW_ZEALAND
paulacasanovas@gmail.com
Understanding lichen diversity on the Antarctic Peninsula using parataxonomic units as a surrogate for species richness
Paula Casanovas
AUTHOR
US National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs (Award No NSF/OPP – 739515).
NASA headquarters under the NASA Earth and Space Fellowship Program – grant NNX10AN55H.
Antarctic Peninsula (including the South Shetland Islands)
Expert collection of specimens in the field and further determination of species is the best method for determining species richness. However, the relative paucity of botanists working in Antarctica makes this approach impractical for broad-scale surveys of Antarctic floral biodiversity. Lichens are the dominant macrophytes of terrestrial Antarctica and, as such, play a fundamental part of the ice-free terrestrial ecosystem. Many distinct ice-free terrestrial habitats in the Antarctic are not represented in the current network of Antarctic protected areas. However, it is difficult to identify appropriate areas for conservation because comprehensive data on distributional patterns of Antarctic flora are not available, and existing data for most Antarctic lichen species are not compiled. Consequently, cost-effective survey methods and surrogates for the prediction of species richness are needed to accelerate assessments of local biodiversity and help select areas for conservation. A combination of a photographic “citizen scientist” approach for the collection of data, and the use of parataxonomic unit (PU) richness as a surrogate for species richness, might be a possible solution to effectively collect preliminary information and rapidly build databases on species diversity. We have developed a database and gathered photographic information on lichen occurrences for sites that are frequently visited by tourists. We test the identification capabilities with a reference dataset of Antarctic lichen images from the U.S. National Herbarium, and showed that all species used in this test can be detected, and that for 74% of the images, all classifiers were able to identify the genus of the specimen. Twenty-nine sites were photographically surveyed by researchers and tourists between 2009/10 and 2011/12 in the Antarctic Peninsula region. We estimated PU richness as a proxy for species richness for each of the 29 sites surveyed, and provide two examples of potential applications. These surveys provide preliminary information for identifying areas for protection and priorities for future research.
More detail will be available at "Understanding lichen diversity on the Antarctic Peninsula using parataxonomic units as a surrogate for species richness", data Paper accepted in Ecology.
2024-03-19T06:49:04Z
P Casanovas, HJ Lynch, WF Fagan, R Naveen (2013) Understanding lichen diversity on the Antarctic Peninsula using parataxonomic units as a surrogate for species richness. Ecology 94 (9), 2110-2110 https://doi.org/10.15468/zaly0d accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-03-19.
Antarctic Site Inventory
citizen scientists
Antarctic Peninsula lichen photodocumentation
NO_TREATMENT
digital specimens (from photographs)
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