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Pier Luigi Nimis
Pier Luigi Nimis is Professor of Botany at the University of Trieste in Italy. He specialises in lichenology and phytogeography, including the uses of lichens as indicators of pollution and devising methods for web-based identification keys. Early life and education He studied for his doctorate at the University of Trieste and it was awarded in 1977. Career After his doctorate, Nimis became a member of staff at the University of Trieste and by 1986 he was Professor of Systematic Botany. He has since also held several administrative posts such as the chair of the School of Biological Sciences from 1988 to 1990 and Dean of the Doctoral School of Biomonitoring from 2009 until 2011. Nimis's research was initially on phytogeography and methods for the joint mapping of plant distribution ranges with multivariate methods, mainly in the Boreal and Arctic zones. Later he began to concentrate on lichens, including their identification and role as indicators of atmospheric pollution. Af ...
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University Of Trieste
The University of Trieste ( it, Università degli Studi di Trieste, or UniTS) is a public research university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 10 departments, boasts a wide and almost complete range of university courses and has about 15,000 students and 1,000 professors. It was founded in 1924. The historical international vocation of the University of Trieste is witnessed by its intense and high-level activity: Trieste is the centre of many research facilities, with which the university is connected by cooperation agreements. Among them, there are the International School for Advanced Studies, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the National Institute of Oceanography, the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste Facility, the Trieste sections of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Italian National Institute for Astrophysic ...
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Rinodina Nimisii
''Rinodina'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 265 species. It is hypothesized that a few saxicolous species common to dry regions of western North America, southern Europe, North Africa and central Asia may date back 240 million years to the Middle Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period .... See also List of ''Rinodina'' species. References Caliciales Caliciales genera Lichen genera Taxa named by Erik Acharius Taxa described in 1810 {{Caliciales-stub ...
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University Of Trieste Alumni
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school Postgraduate or graduate education refers to Academic degree, academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by higher education, post-secondary students who have earned an Undergraduate education, un .... The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools ...
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Acharius Medal Recipients
Acharius may refer to: * Acarius, a 6th-century bishop in Gaul * Erik Acharius, an 18th-century scientist ** The Acharius Medal __NOTOC__ The Acharius Medal is awarded by the International Association for Lichenology (IAL) for lifetime achievement in lichenology. The organization resolved at its 1990 meeting that it would simultaneously honor professional achievement and c ...
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Plant Ecologists
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability ...
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Lichenologists
Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a filamentous fungus. Study of lichens draws knowledge from several disciplines: mycology, phycology, microbiology and botany. Scholars of lichenology are known as lichenologists. History The beginnings Lichens as a group have received less attention in classical treatises on botany than other groups although the relationship between humans and some species has been documented from early times. Several species have appeared in the works of Dioscorides, Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus although the studies are not very deep. During the first centuries of the modern age they were usually put forward as examples of spontaneous generation and their reproductive mechanisms were totally ignored. For centuries naturalists had included lichens in diverse groups until in the early 18th century a French researche ...
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Pat Wolseley
Pat Wolseley is a botanist and illustrator, specialising in lichen. Patricia Anne Wolsely studied botany at Somerville College, Oxford and then was employed at the Natural History Museum, London from 1960. She had always made illustrations of her research and later attended an art school. From 1966 until 1977 she worked at the University of Malta then returning to the Natural History Museum in London first as a Leverhulme Research Fellow and then as a Scientific Associate. Wolseley studied aquatic plants for a decade and then moved on to lichens. This change was prompted by attending a course about lichens and she was attracted by their diversity and beauty. Her first research project about lichens, working with Peter James, was in the Celtic rain forest on the west Wales coast which resulted in adding 250 species to the list of those present in the area. She has subsequently worked at many sites in the UK and also other countries. The effects of the composition of the air on ...
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Sphaerellothecium Nimisii
''Sphaerellothecium'' is a genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae. All of the species in the genus are lichenicolous, meaning they grow parasitically on lichens. Species *'' Sphaerellothecium abditum'' *'' Sphaerellothecium aculeatae'' – Ukraine *'' Sphaerellothecium aipoliae'' *''Sphaerellothecium araneosum'' *'' Sphaerellothecium arctoparmeliae'' *'' Sphaerellothecium arnoldii'' *'' Sphaerellothecium atryneae'' *''Sphaerellothecium breussii'' *'' Sphaerellothecium buelliae'' *'' Sphaerellothecium cinerascens'' *'' Sphaerellothecium cladoniae'' *''Sphaerellothecium cladoniicola'' *''Sphaerellothecium coniodes'' *''Sphaerellothecium contextum'' *''Sphaerellothecium epilecanora'' *''Sphaerellothecium episoralium'' *''Sphaerellothecium episquamarinae'' *''Sphaerellothecium gallowayi'' *''Sphaerellothecium giraltiae'' *''Sphaerellothecium gowardii'' *''Sphaerellothecium heterodermiae'' – Portugal *''Sphaerellothecium icmadophilae'' *'' Sphaerellothec ...
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Topelia Nimisiana
''Topelia'' is a genus of fungi within the family Stictidaceae. The genus name of ''Topelia'' is an anagram in honour of Josef Poelt (1924-1995), who was a German-Austrian botanist (Bryology, Mycology and Lichenology) and was Professor of Systematic Botany at the Free University of Berlin in 1965. The genus was circumscribed by Per Magnus Jørgensen and Antonin Vězda Antonin may refer to: People * Antonin (name) Places ;Poland * Antonin, Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Ostrów ... in Nova Hedwigia Beih. vol.79 on page 502 in 1984. Species As accepted by Species Fungorum; * ''Topelia aperiens'' * ''Topelia argentinensis'' * ''Topelia brittonii'' * ''Topelia californica'' * ''Topelia gyalectodes'' * ''Topelia heterospora'' * ''Topelia jasonhurii'' * ''Topelia loekoesiana'' * ''Topelia nimisiana'' * ''Topelia rosea'' * ''Topelia tetr ...
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Acharius Medal
__NOTOC__ The Acharius Medal is awarded by the International Association for Lichenology (IAL) for lifetime achievement in lichenology. The organization resolved at its 1990 meeting that it would simultaneously honor professional achievement and commemorate Erik Acharius (recognized as the "Father of Lichenology") by presenting a medal in his name. The first Acharius Medal was made in 1846 by the Royal Swedish Mint for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, although the original purpose for that medal is not known. Because the Swedish Mint still had the dies for the original medal, the IAL arranged for new medals to be made. The first of the new medals were awarded in that same year (1992) at the association's congress in Båstad, Sweden. The medal The medal is silver, with Acharius' profile on one side and the recipient's name on the other. Recipients Source: 2021: * Per Magnus Jørgensen * James D. Lawrey 2018: * William Alfred Weber 2016: * Thomas George Allan Gre ...
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