Pier Luigi Nimis
@plnimis
Senior Professor of Systematic Botany, University of Trieste Lichens, Plant Ecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity Informatics, Radioecology, Biomonitoring
Getting ready for the first Symposium of Alpine Lichenology Programme: parcopan.org/wp-content/upl…
1st INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ALPINE LICHENOLOGY Parco Naturale Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino, Italy - July 1-4, 2025 Deadline for abstracts: March, 31, 2025 Link: parcopan.org/le-attivita/la…
Work on the lichen "Flora" of Italy is proceeding well: today the general key has reached 3.400 taxa Link: dryades.units.it/home/index.php…
Today the image archive of ITALIC has reached 9.000 species of lichens and lichenicolous fungi... Link: italic.units.it/index.php?proc…
Glad to see that people find ITALIC useful even on sunday: accesses today, last 6 hours. Meanwhile, I am revising all keys and descriptions, alphabetically: I am at Ochrolechia, 2020 out of 3373 species (60%) are done: now I am going downslope… italic.units.it
Just published! Here an example of the progress in the lichenological exploration of Italy: the known distribution of Pycnora praestabilis before and after this article Link: italianbotanist.pensoft.net/article/154467/
A new Mediterranean-Macaronesian Gyalolechia is born today Link to the paper: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Portal to the Flora of Italy updated today: it includes all nomenclatural and distributional changes up to the end of 2024. Link: dryades.units.it/floritaly/
Sure, there's still plenty of time, but why wait? Submit your #symposium now at ial10.units.it/?page_id=8246! #lichens #lichenology #congress #IAL10 #trieste
Workshop on Taxonomy in Italy - Palermo, April 15-16
Sono aperte le iscrizioni al Workshop "La Tassonomia in Italia" del 15-16 aprile a Palermo, organizzato per NBFC tra le attività di formazione del Biodiversity Gateway. ismar.cnr.it/web-content/la… Il programma prevede due giorni intensi di presentazioni di vari esperti di tassonomia.
and also the NW corner of Italy is filled... Link: bdj.pensoft.net/article/134717/
Today the image archive of ITALIC has reached 8.000 species of lichens! You can explore their fascinating diversity here: italic.units.it/index.php?proc…
A very important paper on the black, difficult, often neglected and poorly understood ones. The new genera are already in ITALIC, tomorrow I’ll fix the descriptions. Thanks to the Authors! Link: studiesinmycology.org/sim/Sim109/Vol…
Today Felix Schumm sent me hundreds of new pictures of Stereocaulon, which are already online. With this, the image archive of ITALIC has reached 65.006 images (7.654 species). Link to the archive: italic.units.it/index.php?proc…
Another funny/instructive video by Daniele Armaleo (Duke University), this time on loving Ramalina in the morning and...cancer cells Link to the video: youtube.com/watch?v=Xf70zZ…
Anamylopsora pulcherrima and last day of work in Armenia: we'll come back!
Welcome to the youngest lichenologists of the congress, winners of the Premio Scuola SLI 2024 for the development of lichen projects! Istituto comprensivo don Lorenzo Milani di Civitavecchia and Istituto C. Berretta di Gardone Val Trompia Brescia. #school #TeachingScience
ITALIC 8.0 is now online. The new “Keymaker” allows users to rapidly generate keys to subsets of species defined by distribution, traits and ecology. The image archive has a new layout, and descriptions are now available for c. 3.330 species. Link: italic.units.it/index.php
A love song to Cladonia, by Daniele Armaleo Link to the video: youtube.com/watch?v=rymMfJ…
