10.15468/zaly0d https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=antarctic_peninsula_lichens http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=antarctic_peninsula_lichens a2e308bf-e9ec-4651-906e-956c963df0ca 14942 Paula Casanovas University of Canterbury

School of Biological Sciences Christchurch 8041 NEW_ZEALAND

paulacasanovas@gmail.com Paula Casanovas University of Canterbury

School of Biological Sciences Christchurch 8041 NEW_ZEALAND

paulacasanovas@gmail.com Paula Casanovas University of Maryland

3205 Bio-Psych building College Park Maryland 20742 UNITED_STATES

3015479899 paulacasanovas@gmail.com http://www.clfs.umd.edu/biology/faganlab/people/casanovas.html AUTHOR Heather Lynch Stony Brook University Associate Professor

113 Life Sciences Bldg, Ecology & Evolution Department Stony Brook New York 11794 UNITED_STATES

heather.lynch@stonybrook.edu http://lynchlab.com/ AUTHOR Ron Naveen Oceanites Inc Founder and President

P.O. Box 15259 Chevy Chase Maryland 20825 UNITED_STATES

ron@oceanites.org http://www.oceanites.org/ AUTHOR William Fagan University of Maryland Professor

3205 Bio-Psych building College Park Maryland 20742 UNITED_STATES

bfagan@glue.umd.edu http://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. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 http://www.oceanites.org https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/archive.do?r=antarctic_peninsula_lichens 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 Sciences Christchurch 8041 NEW_ZEALAND

paulacasanovas@gmail.com 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. 2026-05-17T19:44:59Z 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 2026-05-17. Antarctic Site Inventory citizen scientists Antarctic Peninsula lichen photodocumentation NO_TREATMENT digital specimens (from photographs) 1,762