CURRICULUM VITAE Dr. Robert Lücking Research Collections Manager / Adjunct Curator Department of Botany, The Field Museum 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496 Phone: 1-312-665-7154 Fax: 1-312-665-7158 E-mail: rlucking@fieldmuseum.org

PERSONAL DATA

• Nationality: German.
• Date and place of birth: 24.10.1964 in Ulm, Germany.
• Parents: Werner Lücking, electronics engineer (retired), Roswitha Lücking, chemical-technical assistant.
• Present address: 5307 South Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, IL 60615, U.S.A.

• 1971-1974: Basic School in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• 1974-1975: Basic School in Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• 1975-1984: High School in Bad Säckingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• 1984: Final exam with score = 1.4 (close to best).

• 1984-1990: Studies in Biology at the University of Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
• 1986: Graduation exam (Vordiplom) with score = 1.0 (best).
• 1987-1988: One-year studies in Tropical Biology at the University of Costa Rica (IAS programme of the DAAD).
• 1989: Diploma exam (Diplom) with score = 1.0 (best).
• 1990: Diploma thesis " Taxonomy and Biogeography of Foliicolous Lichens from Costa Rica, Central America", guided by the late Prof. Dr. S. Winkler, with final score = 1.0 (best).
• 1990-1994: Doctoral thesis "Foliicolous Lichens and their Microhabitat Preferences in a Tropical Rain Forest in Costa Rica", guided by the late Prof. Dr. S. Winkler and Prof. Dr. G. Gottsberger, with final score = excellent (summa cum laude). l 2002: Habilitation (Botany) at the University of Bayreuth.

• 1987-1988: 12-month stay in Costa Rica (university studies).
• 1991-1992: 18-month stay in Costa Rica (field work for doctoral thesis).
• 1991: 3-week stay in Guatemala (collection trip).
• 1991-1992: 1-week stays in Panamá at the Smithsonian Institution (scientific exchange).
• 1994: 4-week stay in Costa Rica (field work for doctoral thesis).
• 1994: 1-week stay in Vancouver, Canada (5. International Mycological Congress).
• 1995: 3-week stay in French-Guiana and Brazil (exploration trip for COPAS project).
• 1995: 1-week stay in Mérida, Venezuela (2. Meeting of the GLAL).
• 1995-1996: 4-week stay in Venezuela (collection trip).
• 1996: 4-week-stay in Guyana (collection trip, invited by the Smithsonian Institution).
• 1996: 4-week stay in Ecuador (collection trip).
• 1996: 3-week stay Recife, Brazil (herbarium revision).
• 1996: 1-week stay in Uppsala, Sweden (herbarium revision).
• 1997: 7-month stay in Costa Rica (field work for post-doctoral project).
• 1998: 3-month stay in Recife, Brazil (short term professorship).
• 1998: 1-week stay in Jerusalem, Israel (6. International Mycological Congress).
• 1999: 3-week stay in Costa Rica (field work for habilitation project).
• 1999: 2-month stay in Recife, Brazil (supervision of master's thesis of Marcela Cáceres).
• 1999: 1-week stay in St. Louis, U.S.A. (16. International Botanical Congress).
• 1999: 2-month stay in Chicago, U.S.A. (molecular studies and herbarium revision).
• 2000: 1-week stay in Chicago, U.S.A. (lecture and job interview).
• 2000: 1-week stay in Barcelona, Spain (4. International Lichenological Congress).
• 2000: 5-week stay in Brazil (field work, supervision of Ph.D. thesis of Marcela Cáceres).
• 2001: 1-week stay in Chicago, U.S.A. (collaborative project with F. Lutzoni).
• 2001: 3-week stay in Mexico (collaborative project with UNAM, M. Herrera-Campos).
• 2001: 3-week stay in Brazil and Chile (field work and 5. GLAL meeting).
• 2002: 5-week stay in Mexico (collaborative project with UNAM, M. Herrera-Campos).
• 2002: 5-week stay in Costa Rica (field work for NSF sponsored lichen inventory).
• 2002: 3-week stay in Costa Rica (giving lichen course at the University of Costa Rica).
• 2002: 2-week stay in Mexico (holding lichen workshop at UNAM).
• 2003: 3-week stay in Mexico (collaborative project with UNAM, M. Herrera-Campos).
• 2003: 6-week stay in Costa Rica (field work for NSF sponsored lichen inventory).

• 1994-1998: Participation in project "Tropical Forest Canopies ­ Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards the Understanding of the Functional Diversity of a Little Known Environment", coordinated by Prof. Dr. G. Gottsberger (Körber European Science Award 1996, University of Ulm).
• 1995-1997: Post-doctoral project "Neotropical Foliicolous Lichens: Taxonomy, Systematics, Biogeography, Diversity, Ecology, and Applications" (supported by DFG and University of Ulm).
• 1998: Short-term professorship at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, courses in Lichenology (identification and biology of tropical lichens) and Biological Statistics (application of statistical tests and multivariate techniques to biological data).
• 1998-2001: Habilitation project "Phylogeny of the Lichen Families Gomphillaceae and Asterothyriaceae" (supported by DFG; University of Bayreuth).
• 2001-2003: Adjunct Curator (Lichens) at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
• Since 2003: Research Collections Manager (Mycology) at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

• 1988-1998: Local coordination of the IAS programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for student exchange with the University of Costa Rica.
• 1995: Co-organization of the workshop "Tropical Forest Canopies as an Environment for Arthropods and Epiphytes, with Special Reference to the Phyllosphere", held on Reisensburg Castle, Germany (supported by the European Science Foundation, ESF).
• 1996: Co-organization of the "IAB & IAL Symposium on Foliicolous Cryptogams" in Eger, Hungary.
• Since 1995: Scientific referee for the journals Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, Plant Biology, Revista de Biología Tropical, Tropical Bryology, The Lichenologist, The Bryologist, Acta Botanica Brasilica, and Lichens.
• Since 2002: Scientific advisor for grant review process for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Member: International Association for Lichenology (IAL), British Lichen Society (BLS), American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS), Bryological-Lichenological Working Group of Central Europe (BLAM), Association for Tropical Bryology (ATB), German Society for Tropical Ecology (GTÖ), Grupo Latinoamericano de Liquenólogos (GLAL).

• 1987-1988: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for university studies in Costa Rica in the framework of the IAS programme ($ 5.000,--).
• 1991-1992: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for field work in Costa Rica in the framework of the doctoral thesis ($ 13.000,--).
• 1992-1994: Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg for preparation of the doctoral thesis ($ 8.000,--).
• 1995: Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Biology of the University of Ulm.
• 1995: Initial support by the University of Ulm for postdoctoral project ($ 3.000,--).
• 1995-1997: German Research Society (DFG) for post-doctoral project ($ 36.000,--).
• 1996: Mason-Hale-Award of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL) for best doctoral thesis in lichenology in the period from 1994 to 1996.
• 1996: Participation in Körber European Science Award for project "Living Space Tropical Forest Canopies" coordinated by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gottsberger ($ 750.000,--).
• 1998-2001: German Research Society (DFG) for habilitation project ($ 70.000,--).
• 2001-2004: Mexican CONACYT for collaborative project with M. A. Herrera-Campos, UNAM ($ 20.000,--).
• 2002-2006: National Science Foundation (NSF) for Costa Rican lichen inventory (TICOLICHEN) as collaborative project with INBio ($ 217.000,--).
• 2006-2009 (pending): National Science Foundation (NSF) for systematic work on the lichen family Thelotremataceae in collaboration with Thorsten Lumbsch ($ 300.000,--).

• Languages: German (native), fluently English, Spanish, partly Portuguese.
• Computer: Knowledge in computer programming and particular mathematical algorithms, databases, statistical data evaluation (biostatistics), web site design.
• Hobbies: Photography (nature, macro, scientific), drawing (scientific illustrations), sports (badminton, soccer, Jiu Jitsu), music (history of Afro-Cuban music, www.salsa-charts.com).

• 1989-1990: Scientific assistant in Plant Ecology course (biology of fresh water organisms, chemical analysis of water quality) at the University of Ulm, Germany.
• 1989-1990: Scientific assistant in Plant Physiology course (biology of photosynthesis of C3 and CAM plants) at the University of Ulm, Germany.
• 1989-1991: Scientific assistant in Animal Physiology course (isoenzyme analysis) at the University of Ulm, Germany.
• 1990-1995: Scientific assistant in Systematic Botany course (morphology and anatomy of fungi, algae, bryophytes, and higher plants) at the University of Ulm, Germany.
• 1995: Bryology course for adult education in Sigmaringen, Germany.
• 1989-1998: Scientific excursions covering cryptogams, trees and tropical plants (in botanic gardens) at the University of Ulm, Germany.
• 1994-1998: Tropical Biology course (identification, ecomorphology and use of tropical plants, including lichens and bryophytes) at the University of Ulm, Germany.
• 1998: Three-month short term professorship at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, implying two courses in Lichenology (identification and biology of tropical lichens) and Biological Statistics (application of statistical tests and multivariate techniques to biological data).
• 1998-2001: Cryptogamic course (identification and biology of lichens and bryophytes) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• 1998-2001: Scientific assistant in Systematic Botany course (morphology and anatomy of fungi, algae, bryophytes, and higher plants) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• 1998-2001: Scientific excursions covering cryptogams and vascular plants at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• 2002: Tropical lichen taxonomy and ecogeography course at the University of Costa Rica.

• 1988-1998: Guidance of students participating in the IAS programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for exchange with the University of Costa Rica.
• since 1996: Doctoral thesis of Lidia Itati Ferraro, Corrientes (Argentina), with the working title "Flora Liquénica Foliícola del Nordeste de Argentina".
• 1997: Diploma thesis of Marc Greber, Ulm, with the title "Foliicolous Lichens in a Montane Rain Forest in Costa Rica, Central America: Species Composition along an Altitudinal Transect".
• 1997: Diploma thesis of Rainer Schubert, Ulm, with the title "Ecological Studies on Foliicolous Lichens in a Tropical Rain Forest in Costa Rica with Respect to Anthropogenic Disturbance".
• 1997-1999: Master's thesis of Marcela Cáceres, Recife (Brazil), with the title "Liquens Foliícolas da Mata Atlântica de Pernambuco (Brasil): Diversidade, Ecogeografia e Conservação".
• 1999: Diploma thesis of Andreas Frisch, Regensburg (Germany), with the working title "Foliicolous Lichens of Tanzania".
• since 2000: Doctoral thesis of Marcela Cáceres, Recife (Brazil) and Bayreuth (Germany), with the working title "The Corticolous Lichen Flora of Northeastern Brazil".
• since 2001: Master's thesis of Khwanruan Papong, Bangkok (Thailand), with the working title "The Foliicolous Lichen Flora of Thailand".
• since 2001: Master's thesis of Ludmilla Fitri Untari, Yogyakarta (Indonesia), with the working title "Trichotheliaceae (Porina, Trichothelium) from Kalimantan (Indonesia)"
• since 2001: Scientific research project of Athokpam Pinokiyo, Shillong (India), with the working title "The Foliicolous Lichens of India (Botanical Survey of India)"
• since 2002: Licenciatura thesis of Paola Colín, Mexico, with the working title "Microclimate and phorophyte preferences of foliicolous lichens in a lowland rainforest in Veracruz"
• since 2003: Licenciatura thesis of Alejandrina Bárcenas Peña, Mexico, with the working title "Influence of anthropogenic disturbance on foliicolous lichen biodiversity in a lowland rainforest in Veracruz"

• Arizona State University, U.S.A. (2002)
• Field Museum, U.S.A. (1999)
• Smithsonian Institution, Panama (1992)
• Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (1996, 1998)
• National Autonomous
• University of Mexico (UNAM) (2002) University of Costa Rica (1997, 2000)
• O.T.S. La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica (1997)
• University of Uppsala, Sweden (1996)
• University of Budapest, Hungary (1995)
• University of Kiel, Germany (1997)
• Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft Zürich, Switzerland (1997)

• Prof. Dr. Francois Lutzoni, Department of Biology, Duke University, Box 90338 Durham, NC 27708 U.S.A. -- Phone: 1-919-660-7261 / E-mail: flutzoni@duke.edu. -- Principal research area: Molecular phylogeny of fungi.
• Dr. Irwin M. Brodo, Canadian Museum of Nature, PO Box 3443 Stn D, Ottawa ON K1P 6P4, Canada. -- Phone: 1-613-364-4072 / Fax: 1-613-364-4027 / E-mail: ibrodo@mus-nature.ca. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy and ecology of North American lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Nash III, Lichen Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, P. O. Box 871601, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1601, U.S.A. -- Phone: 1-480-965-7735 / Fax: 1-480-965-6899 / E-mail: tom.nash@asu.edu. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy and ecophysiology of North American lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Mark Seaward, Department of Environmental Science, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, United Kingdom. -- Phone: 011-44-1274-384212 / Fax: 011-44-1274384-231 / e-mail: m.r.d.seaward@bradford.ac.uk. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation of lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Teuvo Ahti, Department of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki, Box 47, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. -- Phone: 011-358-9-191-4782 / Email: teuvo.Ahti@helsinki.fi. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, systematics, biodiversity and conservation of lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Emmanuël Sérusiaux, Department of Botany, University of Liège, Sart Tilman, B4000 Liège, Belgium. -- E-mail: e.serusiaux@ulg.ac.be. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, systematics, biodiversity and conservation of lichens.
• Dr. Harrie Sipman, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, KöniginLuise-Straße 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany. -- Phone: 011-49-30-8300-6149 / Fax: 011-4930-8300-6186 / E-mail: hsipman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy and distribution of tropical lichens.
• Dr. Patrick McCarthy, Australian Biological Resources Study, GPO Box 787, Canberra A.C.T. 2601, Australia. -- E-mail: patrick.mccarthy@ea.gov.au. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, systematics, biodiversity and conservation of Australian and tropical crustose lichens.
• Dr. María de los Angeles Herrera-Campos, Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cd. Universitaria, C.P. 04510 Coyoacán, México, D.F., Mexico. -- Phone: 011-52-55-5622-5696 / Fax: 011-52-55-55501760 / E-mail: mahc@ibunam.ibiologia.unam.mx. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation of Mexican lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Leonor Costa Maia, Departamento de Micologia, CCB, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, CEP 50670-420, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. -- Email: lcm@ufpe.br. -- Principal research area: Ecophysiology and agricultural applications of fungal mykorrhizae.
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rambold, Lehrstuhl für Pflanzensystematik, Universität Bayreuth, D95440 Bayreuth, Germany. -- Phone: 011-49-921-552453 / Fax: 011-49-921-552786 / Email: gerhard.rambold@uni-bayreuth.de. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy and systematics of fungi, taxonomic and biogeographic database applications.
• Prof. Dr. Helmut Mayrhofer, Institut für Botanik, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Holteigasse 6, A-8018 Graz, Austria. -- Fax: 011-43-316-380-9883 / E-mail: helmut.mayrhofer@kfunigraz.ac.at. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, systematics, biodiversity and conservation of lichens in Central Europe.
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Kalb, Lichenologisches Institut Neumarkt, Im Tal 12, D-92318 Neumarkt/Opf. -- E-mail: klaus.kalb@neumarkt.netsurf.de. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy and systematics of tropical lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gottsberger, Department of Systematic Botany and Ecology, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany. -- Phone: 011-49-731-502-2700 / Fax: 011-49-731-502-2720 / E-mail: gerhard.gottsberger@biologie.uni-ulm.de. -- Principal research area: Pollination ecology and canopy research.
• Prof. Dr. Hannes Hertel, Botanische Staatssammlung, Menzinger Straße 67, D-80638 München, Germany. -- Phone: 011-49-89-17861-266 / Fax: 011-49-89-17861-193. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy and systematics of lichens.
• Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wirth, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstrasse 13, D-76133 Karlsruhe. -- Phone: 011-49-721-175-2111 / Fax: 011-49-721-175-2110 / Email: direktor@naturkundeka-bw.de. -- Principal research area: Taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation of lichens in Central Europe.

• Original papers and literature revisions (peer reviewed)

  APTROOT, A. & LÜCKING, R. (2001): The Sphaerella species described from Hymenophyllaceae (filmy ferns) belong to Strigula and Trichothelium (lichenized ascomycetes). Mycological Research 105: 510-512.

  APTROOT, A. & LÜCKING, R. (2003): Phenotype-based phylogenetic analysis does not support generic separation of Gyalidea and Solorinella (Ostropales: Asterothyriaceae). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 86: 53-78.

  APTROOT, A. & LÜCKING, R. (2002): Proposal to conserve Gyalidea (lichenized fungi: Asterothyriaceae, Ostropales) against an additional name, Solorinella. Taxon 51: 565.

  BARILLAS, R. & LÜCKING, R. (1992): Líquenes foliícolas de Guatemala. Un estudio taxonómico preliminar. Cryptogamie, Bryologie Lichénologie 13: 297-317.

  BARILLAS, R., LÜCKING, R. & WINKLER, S. (1993): Vergesellschaftungen foliikoler Flechten im Biotopo del Quetzal, Guatemala. Cryptogamie, Bryologie, Lichénologie 14: 49-68.

  BECKER, U. & LÜCKING, R. (1995): Foliikole Flechten aus dem Taï-Nationalpark, Elfenbeinküste (Tropisches Afrika). I. Neue Arten. In: DANIELS, F. J. A., SCHULZ, M. & PEINE, J. (eds): Flechten Follmann. Contributions to Lichenology in Honour of Gerhard Follmann: 161-173. Geobotanical and Phytotaxonomical Study Group, Cologne.

  CÁCERES, M. E. S. & LÜCKING, R. (1999): Three new species and one new combination of foliicolous lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Atlantic rain forest in Pernambuco state, Brazil. Nova Hedwigia 70: 217-226.

  CÁCERES, M. E. S., MAIA, L. C. & LÜCKING, R. (2000): Foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil: diversity, ecogeography and conservation. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 75: 47-70.

  CÁCERES, M. E. S., DIEDERICH, P., LÜCKING, R. & Sérusiaux, E. (2001): Chiodecton epiphyllum is a lichenicolous fungus on Coenogonium flavicans and belongs in the genus Plectocarpon (Arthoniales: Roccellaceae). Lichenologist 33: 503-506.

  CHAVES, J. L., LÜCKING, R., SIPMAN, H. J. M., UMAÑA, L., AND NAVARRO, E. (2004): A first assessment of the Ticolichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica: the genus Dictyonema (Polyporales: Atheliaceae). Bryologist 107: 242-249.

  DE OLIVEIRA, L. F. C., EDWARDS, H. G. M., FEO-MANGA, J. C., SEAWARD, M. R. D. & LÜCKING, R. (2002): FT-Raman spectroscopy of three foliicolous lichens from Costa Rican rain forests. Lichenologist 34: 259-266.

  ELIX, J. A., LUMBSCH, H. T. & LÜCKING, R. (1995): The chemistry of foliicolous lichens 2. Constituents of some Byssoloma and Sporopodium species. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 58: 8196.

  ETAYO, J. & LÜCKING, R. (1999): Anisomeridium musaesporoides, a new foliicolous lichen from tropical America. Lichenologist 31: 145-148.

  FERRARO, L. I. & LÜCKING, R. (1997): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. III. Arthonia crystallifera (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Arthoniaceae), with a world-wide key to the foliicolous Arthoniaceae. Phyton (Horn, Austria) 37: 61-70.

  FERRARO, L. I. & LÜCKING, R. (1999): New species of interesting records of foliicolous lichens. V. Two new species of Fellhanera (lichenized Ascomycotina: Pilocarpaceae) with 1-septate ascospores. Mycotaxon 73: 163-167.

  FERRARO, L. I. & LÜCKING, R. (2000): Adiciones a la flora liquénica foliícola de Argentina, Paraguay Oriental y regiones limítrofes de Brasil. Tropical Bryology 19: 59-72.

  FERRARO, L. I. & LÜCKING, R. (2003): Gyalectidium aurelii (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae), a new foliicolous lichen from the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Acta Botanica Bras. 17.

  FERRARO, L. I., LÜCKING, R. & SÉRUSIAUX, E. (2001): A world monograph of the lichen genus Gyalectidium (Gomphillaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 311-345.

  GOTTSBERGER, G., FREIBERG, E., LÜCKING, A., FREIBERG, M., LÜCKING, R. & DÖRING, J. (1995): Baumkronen tropischer Wälder ­ Interdisziplinäre Ansätze zum Verständnis der Diversität und Funktion eines wenig erforschten Lebensraums. Ulmensien 10: 51-96.

  GOTTSBERGER, G., FREIBERG, E., LÜCKING, A., FREIBERG, M., LÜCKING, R. & DÖRING, J. (1998): COPAS, ein dreidimensionales Zugangssystem, in Verbindung mit einem interdisziplinären Konzept zur Erforschung der Baumkronen tropischer Wälder. Mitteilungen der Bundesanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft Hamburg 190: 325-330.

  GRADSTEIN, S. R. & LÜCKING, R. (1997): Synthesis of the symposium and priorities for future research. In: FARKAS, E. É & PÓCS, T. (eds): Cryptogams in the Phyllosphere: Systematics, Distribution, Ecology, and Use. Abstracta Botanica 21: 207-214.

  GRADSTEIN, S. R., HIETZ, P., LÜCKING, R., LÜCKING, A., SIPMAN, H. J. M., VESTER, H. F. M., WOLF, J. H. D. & GARDETTE, E.: How to sample the epiphytic diversity of tropical rain forests. Ecotropica 2: 59-72.

  GRUBE, M. & LÜCKING, R. (2001): Ascogenous hyphae in foliicolous species of Arthonia and allied genera. Mycological Research 105: 1007-1013.

  GRUBE, M. & LÜCKING, R. (2002): Fine structures of foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi studied by epifluorescence. Symbiosis 32: 229-246.

  GRUBE, M., LÜCKING, R., AND UMAÑA-TENORIO, L. (2004): A new isidiate species of Arthonia (Ascomycota: Arthoniaceae) from Costa Rica. Mycologia 96: 1159-1162.

  HENSSEN, A. & LÜCKING, R. (2002): Morphology, anatomy, and ontogeny in the Asterothyriaceae (Ascomycetes: Ostropales), a greatly misunderstood group of lichenized fungi. Annales Botanici Fennici 39: 273-299.

  HERRERA-CAMPOS, M. A. & LÜCKING, R. (2002): The foliicolous lichen flora of Mexico. I. New species from Los Tuxtlas Tropical Biological Station, Veracruz. Lichenologist 34: 211-222.

  HERRERA-CAMPOS, M. A. & LÜCKING, R. (2003): The foliicolous lichen flora of Mexico. II. New species from the montane forest in Oaxaca and Puebla. The Bryologist 106: 1-8.

  HERRERA-CAMPOS, M. A., COLÍN, P. M., BÁRCENAS PEÑA, A., AND LÜCKING, R. (2004): The foliicolous lichen flora of Mexico. III. New species from Volcán San Martín Tuxtla (Sierra de Los Tuxtlas), Veracruz, with notes on Fellhanera santessonii. Phyton (Horn) 44: 167-185.

  HERRERA-CAMPOS, M. A., LÜCKING, R., PÉREZ PÉREZ, R.-E., CAMPOS, Á., COLÍN, P. M., AND BÁRCENAS PEÑA, A. (2004): The foliicolous lichen flora of Mexico. V. Biogeographical affinities, altitudinal preferences, and an updated checklist of 293 species. Lichenologist 36: 309-327.

  KALB, K., LÜCKING, R. & SÉRUSIAUX, E. (2000): Studies in Bacidia sensu lato (lichenized Ascomycetes: Lecanorales). I. The genus Bapalmuia. Mycotaxon 75: 281-309.

  LENDEMER, J. C., AND LÜCKING, R. (2004): Gyalideopsis moodyae (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae), a new lichen species from Eastern North America. Bryologist 107: 234-236.

  LÜCKING, A. & LÜCKING, R. (1993): Passerina cyanea (Passeriformes, Emberizidae), nuevo informe ornitológico para la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 41: 928-929.

  LÜCKING, A. & LÜCKING, R. (1998): Anpassungen und Konvergenzen in der Phyllosphäre am Beispiel epiphyller Moose, Flechten und Insekten. Mitteilungen der Bundesanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft Hamburg 190: 115-119.

  LÜCKING, R. (1991): Neue Arten foliikoler Flechten aus Costa Rica, Zentralamerika. Nova Hedwigia 52: 267-304.

  LÜCKING, R. (1992): Foliicolous Lichens ­ A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Lichen Flora of Costa Rica, Central America. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 104: 1-179.

  LÜCKING, R. (1992): Zur Verbreitungsökologie foliikoler Flechten in Costa Rica, Zentralamerika. Teil I. Nova Hedwigia 54: 309-353.

  LÜCKING, R. (1992): Zur Verbreitungsökologie foliikoler Flechten in Costa Rica, Zentralamerika. Teil II. Herzogia 9: 81-112.

  LÜCKING, R. (1994): A new species of Microtheliopsis from Costa Rica, Central America. Mycotaxon 51: 69-73.

  LÜCKING, R. (1995): Additions and corrections to the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa Rica. The family Arthoniaceae, with notes on the genus Stirtonia. Lichenologist 27: 127-153.

  LÜCKING, R. (1995): Lista preliminar de líquenes foliícolas de las principales areas protegidas de Costa Rica. Brenesia 43-44: 39-46.

  LÜCKING, R. (1995): Foliikole Flechten auf Cecropiaceen im Kronendach eines tropischen Regenwaldes. In: FARKAS, E. É., LÜCKING, R. & WIRTH, V. (eds): Scripta Lichenologica ­ Lichenological Papers Dedicated to Antonín Vezda. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 58: 261274.

  LÜCKING, R. (1995): Biodiversity and conservation of foliicolous lichens in Costa Rica. In: SCHEIDEGGER, C., WOLSELEY, P.A. & THOR, G. (eds): Conservation Biology of Lichenised Fungi. Mitteilungen der Eidgenössischen Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft 70: 63-92.

  LÜCKING, R. (1995): Cryptogams in the phyllosphere: diversity, ecology, and interactions. In: LÜCKING, R., FREIBERG, M., LÜCKING, A, FREIBERG, E. & GOTTSBERGER, G. (eds): Tropical Forest Canopies as Environment for Arthropods and Epiphytes, Special Reference to the Phyllosphere. Second International ESF Workshop on Tropical Canopy Research, 27-30 July 1995, Günzburg, Alemania. Final Scientific Report: 19-23.

  LÜCKING, R. (1996): Taxonomic studies in foliicolous species of the genus Porina. I. The Porina rufula aggregate. Botanica Acta 109: 248-260.

  LÜCKING, R. (1997): Additions and corrections to the knowledge of the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa Rica, Central America. The family Gomphillaceae. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 65: 1109.

  LÜCKING, R. (1997): Additions and corrections to the knowledge of the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa Rica, Central America. The genus Fellhanera, with notes on Bacidia pauciseptata. Tropical Bryology 13: 141-173.

  LÜCKING, R. (1997): Estado actual de investigaciones sobre líquenes foliícolas en la región neotrópica, con un análisis biogeográfico preliminar. Tropical Bryology 13: 87-114.

  LÜCKING, R. (1997): Notes on "Lichenes Foliicoli Exsiccati", Fasc. I-VI. In: FARKAS, E. É & PÓCS, T. (eds): Cryptogams in the Phyllosphere: Systematics, Distribution, Ecology, and Use. Abstracta Botanica 21: 89-98.

  LÜCKING, R. (1997): The use of foliicolous lichens as bioindicators in the tropics, with special reference to the microclimate. In: FARKAS, E. É & PÓCS, T. (eds): Cryptogams in the Phyllosphere: Systematics, Distribution, Ecology, and Use. Abstracta Botanica 21: 99-116.

  LÜCKING, R. (1998): Additions and corrections to the knowledge of the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa Rica, Central America. The genus Trichothelium (lichenized Ascomycetes: Trichotheliaceae). Nova Hedwigia 66: 375-417.

  LÜCKING, R. (1998): Foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi collected during the Smithsonian International Cryptogamic Expedition to Guyana 1996. Tropical Bryology 15: 45-76.

  LÜCKING, R. (1998): 'Plasticolous' lichens in a tropical rain forest at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Lichenologist 30: 287-301.

  LÜCKING, R. (1998): Blattbewohnende Flechten und ihre Mikrohabitatpräferenzen in einem tropischen Regenwald in Costa Rica. Mitteilungen der Bundesanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft Hamburg 190: 110-114.

  LÜCKING, R. (1998): Ecology of foliicolous lichens at the Botarrama trail (Costa Rica), a neotropical rain forest site. II. Patterns of diversity and area cover and their dependence on microclimate and phorophyte species. Ecotropica 4: 1-24.

  LÜCKING, R. (1998): Ecology of foliicolous lichens at the Botarrama trail (Costa Rica), a neotropical rain forest. III. Phorophyte ranges and patterns of phorophyte preferences. Phyton (Horn) 38: 195-219.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Ecology of foliicolous lichens at the Botarrama trail (Costa Rica), a neotropical rain forest. I. Species composition and ist ecogeographical implications. Biotropica 31: 553-564.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Ecology of foliicolous lichens at the Botarrama trail (Costa Rica), a neotropical rain forest. IV. Species associations, their salient features, and their dependence on environmental variables. Lichenologist 31: 269-289.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Líquenes foliícolas de la Estación Biológica La Selva, Costa Rica: Inventario, comunidades y comparación florística de tipos de vegetación. Revista de Biología Tropical 47: 287-308.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Additions and corrections to the knowledge of the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa Rica. The family Gyalectaceae. Lichenologist 31: 359-374.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Ergänzungen und Verbesserungen zur Kenntnis der foliikolen Flechtenflora Costa Ricas. Die Familie Ectolechiaceae. Phyton (Horn) 39: 131-165.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Addiciones y correcciones al conocimiento de la líquenoflora foliícola de Costa Rica. La familia Asterothyriaceae y el género Chroodiscus (Thelotremataceae), con un análisis filogenético. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20: 193-224.

  LÜCKING, R. (1999): Foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi from Ecuador, with a comparison of lowland and montane rainforest. Willdenowia 29: 299-335.

  LÜCKING, R. (2001): Lichens on leaves in tropical rain forests: life in a permanently ephemerous environment. In: Gottsberger, G. & Liede, S. (eds): Life forms and dynamics in tropical forests. Dissertationes Botanicae 346: 41-77.

  LÜCKING, R. (2001): Nuevos registros de líquenes foliícolas para la Estación Biológica La Selva (Costa Rica) y para el Neotrópico. Revista de Biología Tropical 49: 765.

  LÜCKING, R. (2003): Takhtajan's floristic regions versus foliicolous lichen biogeography: a compatibility analysis. Lichenologist 35: 33-54.

  LÜCKING, R. (2003): Liquens foliícolas da Estação Biológica Ferreira Penna (Reserva Florestal de Caxiuanã, Pará, Brasil): diversidade, taxonomia e biogeografia. In: Lisboa, P. (ed.): A flora e fauna da Estação Biológica Ferreira Penna. Museo Goeldi, Belém.

  LÜCKING, R. (2004): A revised key to foliicolous Porinaceae (Ascomycota: Trichotheliales). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 88: 409-426.

  LÜCKING, R. (2004): Gyalectidium. In Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. II (Nash III, T. H., Ryan, B. D., Gries, C. & Bungartz, F., eds). Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe: 115-116.

  LÜCKING, R. (2004): Sporopodium. In Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. II (Nash III, T. H., Ryan, B. D., Gries, C. & Bungartz, F., eds). Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe: 499-501.

  LÜCKING, R. & BERNECKER-LÜCKING, A. (2000): Lichen feeders and lichenicolous fungi: do they affect dispersal and diversity in tropical foliicolous lichen communities? Ecotropica 6: 2341.

  LÜCKING, R. & BERNECKER-LÜCKING, A. (2002): Distance, dynamics, and diversity in tropical rain forests: an experimental approach using lichens on artificial leaves. Ecotropica 8: 1-13.

  LÜCKING, R. & BERNECKER-LÜCKING, A. (2005): Drip-tips do not impair the development of epiphyllous rain-forest lichen communities. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21: 171-177.

  LÜCKING, R. & CÁCERES, M. E. S. (1999): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. IV. Porina pseudoapplanata (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Trichotheliaceae), a remarkable new species with Phyllophiale-type isidia. Lichenologist 31: 349-358.

  LÜCKING, R., AND CÁCERES, M. E. S. (2004): Corticolous species of Trichothelium (Ascomycota: Porinaceae). Mycol. Res. 108: 571-575.

  LÜCKING, R. & FERRARO, L. I. (1997): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. I. Trichothelium argenteum (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Trichotheliaceae). Lichenologist 29: 217-220.

  LÜCKING, R. & GRUBE, M. (2002): Facultative parasitism and reproductive strategies in Chroodiscus (Ascomycota, Ostropales). Stapfia 80: 267-292.

  LÜCKING, R. & KALB, K. (2000): Foliikole Flechten aus Brasilien (vornehmlich Amazonien), inklusive einer Checkliste und Bemerkungen zu Coenogonium und Dimerella (Gyalectaceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik 122: 1-61.

  LÜCKING, R. & KALB, K. (2001): New Caledonia, foliicolous lichens, and island biogeography. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78: 247-273.

  LÜCKING, R. & KALB, K. (2001): Echinoplaca vezdana (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae): a new lichenized fungus. Taxon 50: 837-840.

  LÜCKING, R. & KALB, K. (2002): New species and further additions to the foliicolous lichen flora of Kenya (East Africa), including the first lichenicolous Aulaxina (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 171-180.

  LÜCKING, R. & LÜCKING, A. (1995): Foliicolous lichens and bryophytes from Cocos Island, Costa Rica. A taxonomical & ecogeographical study. I. Lichens. Herzogia 11: 143-174.

  LÜCKING, R. & LÜCKING, A. (1996): Foliicolous bryophytes and lichens. In: GRADSTEIN, S. R., HIETZ, P., LÜCKING, R., LÜCKING, A., SIPMAN, H. J. M., VESTER, H. F. M., WOLF, J. H. D. & GARDETTE, E.: How to sample the epiphytic diversity of tropical rain forests. Ecotropica 2: 67-72.

  LÜCKING, R. & LUMBSCH, H. T. (2001): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. VI. Sporopodium aeruginascens (Lecanorales), with notes on the chemistry of Sporopodium. Mycotaxon 78: 23-27.

  LÜCKING, R. & MALCOLM, W. M. (1997): Additional lichen records from New Zealand. 22. Porina applanata. Australasian Lichenological Newsletter 40: 14-15.

  LÜCKING, R. & MATZER, M. (1996): Ergänzungen und Verbesserungen zur Kenntnis der foliikolen Flechtenflora Costa Ricas. Die Familie Opegraphaceae (einschließlich der Gattung Mazosia). Nova Hedwigia 63: 109-144.

  LÜCKING, R. & MATZER, M. (2001): High foliicolous lichen alpha-diversity on individual leaves in Costa Rica and Amazonian Ecuador. Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 2139-2152.

  LÜCKING, R. & MATZER, M. (2003): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. IX. Opegrapha fuscothallina (Ascomycota: Roccellaceae). Mycotaxon (in press).

  LÜCKING, R. & SANTESSON, R. (2001): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. VIII. Two new taxa from tropical Africa, with a key to sorediate Fellhanera species. Lichenologist 33: 111-116.

  LÜCKING, R. & SANTESSON, R. (2001): On the identity of Pyrenotrichum 'atrocyaneum', P. 'mirum' and P. 'podosphaera', campylidia of lichenized Ascomycota (Lecanorales: Ectolechiaceae). Bryologist 105: 57-62.

  LÜCKING, R. & SÉRUSIAUX, E. (1997): Musaespora kalbii (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Melanommatales), a new foliicolous lichen with pantropical distribution. Nordic Journal of Botany 16: 661-668.

  LÜCKING, R. & SÉRUSIAUX, E. (1998): Gyalideopsis cochlearifera, a new pantropical, commensalistic species on foliicolous Gomphillaceae. Lichenologist 30: 543-549.

  LÜCKING, R. & SÉRUSIAUX, E. (2001): Lasioloma stephanellum comb. nov. (lichenized Ascomycetes, Ectolechiaceae). Mycotaxon 77: 301-303.

  LÜCKING, R. & VEZDA, A. (1995): Proposal to conserve Badimia against Pseudogyalecta (Lichenized Ascomycotina). Taxon 44: 227-228.

  LÜCKING, R. & VEZDA, A. (1998): Taxonomic studies in foliicolous species of the genus Porina (lichenized Ascomycotina: Trichotheliaceae). II. The Porina epiphylla group. Willdenowia 28: 181-225.

  LÜCKING, R., LUMBSCH, T. H. & ELIX, J. A. (1994): Chemistry, anatomy and morphology of foliicolous species of the genera Fellhanera and Badimia (Lichenized Ascomycotina: Lecanorales). Botanica Acta 107: 393-401.

  LÜCKING, R., APTROOT, A. & THOR, G. (1997): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. II. Flavobathelium epiphyllum (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Melanommatales). Lichenologist 29: 221-228.

  LÜCKING, R., BECKER, U. & FOLLMANN, G. (1998): Foliikole Flechten aus dem Taï-Nationalpark, Elfenbeinküste (Tropisches Afrika). II. Ökologie und Biogeografie. Herzogia 13: 207-228.

  LÜCKING, R., SÉRUSIAUX, E., Maia, L. C. & Pereira, E. C. G. (1998): A revision of the names of foliicolous lichenized fungi published by Batista and co-workers between 1960 and 1975. Lichenologist 30: 121-191.

  LÜCKING, R., CÁCERES, M. E. da S. & MAIA, L. C. (1999). Revisão taxonômica e nomenclatural de liquens foliícolas e respectivos fungos liquenícolas registrados para o estado de Pernambuco, Brasil, por Batista e colaboradores. Acta Botânica Brasilica 13: 115-128.

  LÜCKING, R., SÉRUSIAUX, E. & SIPMAN, H. J. M. (2000): New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens. VII. Calenia flava (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae). Tropical Bryology 19: 55-58.

  LÜCKING, R., KALB, K., SÉRUSIAUX, E. & VEZDA, A. (2000): Proposals to reject the names Pyrenotrichum, Chlorocyphella and Cyrta (lichenised Fungi Imperfecti: form-class Coelomycetes). Taxon 49: 558-560.

  LÜCKING, R., CÁCERES, M. E. S., KALB, K. & SÉRUSIAUX, E. (2001): Studies in Bacidia sensu lato (lichenized Ascomycetes: Lecanorales). II. Six new combinations in Fellhanera Vezda. Lichenologist 33: 189-194.

  LÜCKING, R., STREIMANN, H. & ELIX, J. A. (2001): Foliicolous lichens from Australasia (Papua New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu Isls.), with an updated checklist for continental Australia. Lichenologist 33: 195-210.

  LÜCKING, R., SÉRUSIAUX, E. & SANTESSON, R. (2002): Ceratopycnidium citricola is Byssoloma lueckingii. Lichenologist 34: 270-272.

  LÜCKING, R., WIRTH, V., FERRARO, L. I. & CÁCERES, M. E. S. (2003): Foliicolous lichens from Valdivian temperate rainforest of Chile and Argentina: evidence of an austral element, with the description of seven new taxa. Global Ecology Biogeography 12: 21-36.

  LÜCKING, R., STUART, B. L., AND LUMBSCH, H. T. (2004): Phylogenetic relationships of Gomphillaceae and Asterothyriaceae: evidence from a combined Bayesian analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial sequences. Mycologia 96: 283-294.

  LÜCKING, R., SÉRUSIAUX, E. & VEZDA, A. (2005): Phylogeny and systematics of the lichen family Gomphillaceae (Ostropales) inferred from cladistic analysis of phenotype data. Lichenologist 37 (in press).

  LUMBSCH, H. T., MANGOLD, A., LÜCKING, R., GARCÍA, M. A., AND MARTÍN, M. P. (2004): Phylogenetic position of the genera Nadvornikia and Pyrgillus (Ascomycota) based on molecular data. Symb. Bot. Ups. 34: 9-17.

• Internet publications and websites

  LÜCKING, R. (2000): Lichenes Foliicoli Exsiccati. [www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/planta2/ass/robert/lichens/listexsi.html].

  LÜCKING, R. (2000): List of environmental index values for foliicolous lichens. [www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/planta2/ass/robert/lichens/listindi.html].

  LÜCKING, R. (2000): Key to foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi. Part I. Foliicolous lichens. [www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/planta2/ass/robert/lichens/key_genera.html].

  LÜCKING, R. (2003): TICOLICHEN. Official site of the Costa Rican lichen biodiversity inventory. [www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany/botany_sites/ticolichen/ticolichen.html].

  LÜCKING, R. (2003): The foliicolous lichen homepage (new version). [www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany/botany_sites/foliicolous/index.html].

  LÜCKING, R., FARKAS, E. É., SÉRUSIAUX, E. & SIPMAN, H. J. M. (2000): Checklist of foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi. Part I. Foliicolous lichens. [www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/planta2/ass/robert/lichens/checkfol.html].

  LÜCKING, R., DIEDERICH, P. & ETAYO, J. (2001): Checklist of foliicolous lichens and their lichenicolous fungi. Part II. Lichenicolous fungi. [www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/planta2/ass/robert/lichens/checkfun.html].

  LÜCKING, R., LUMBSCH, H. T. & KALB, K. (2003): The Thelotremataceae website. [www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany/botany_sites/thelotrema/thelotrema.html].

  UMAÑA TENORIO, L., SIPMAN, H. J. M. & LÜCKING, R. (2002): Preliminary checklist of lichens from Costa Rica (Version 1.1). [www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany/botany_sites/ticolichen/page_checklist.html].

• Popular-cientific publications

  BERNECKER, A., FREIBERG, E. & LÜCKING, R. (2000): Die Phyllosphäre ­ ein Mikrokosmos im tropischen Regenwald. In: Der verborgene Garten ­ Forschung und Arbeit im Botanischen Garten der Universität Ulm. Botanischer Garten der Universität Ulm und Abteilung für Systematische Botanik und Ökologie, Ulm.

  GOTTSBERGER, G., FREIBERG, M., FREIBERG, E., LÜCKING, R., LÜCKING, A. & STEVENS, A.-D. (1997): Lebensraum tropische Baumkronen. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 50: 379385.

  LÜCKING, R. (2001): Evolution: Divergenz ­ Konvergenz. Spektrum 2001(2): 23.

  LÜCKING, R. & LÜCKING, A. (1999): Der Mikrokosmos im tropischen Wald. Forschung (DFG) 1999(1): 18-23.

  LÜCKING, R. & LÜCKING, A. (1999): The microcosmos in the tropical forest. German Research (DFG) 1999: 4-9.

  LÜCKING, R. & LÜCKING, A. (2000): Mikrokosmos i tropeskogen. Naturen 124: 145-150.

• Reports about scientific projects

  ANONYMOUS (1999): Ein Ökosystem auf Blättern. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28.04. 1999, p. N1.

  HÖHNEISEN, R. (1999): Eine fantastische Artenvielfalt auf tropischen Blättern. Factum 19 (7/8): 20-21.

  PIETSCHMANN, P. (1995): Operation Tarzan ­ Swinging research im Kronendach. Uni Ulm Intern 195: 2-7.

  PIETSCHMANN, P. (1996): Lebensraum tropische Baumkronen. Das Ulmer COPAS-Projekt wird mit dem Körber-Preis für die Europäische Wissenschaft gefördert. Uni Ulm Intern 208: 7.