A single macrolichen constitutes hundreds of unrecognized species

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 11091-11096

  Lücking, Robert ^a   Dal Forno, Manuela ^b   Sikaroodi, Masoumeh ^b   Gillevet, Patrick M ^b   Bungartz, Frank ^c   Moncada, Bibiana ^d   Yańez Ayabaca, Alba ^c   Chaves, José Luis ^e   Coca, Luis Fernando ^f   Lawrey, James D ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE CALDAS   (Colombia)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE CALDAS   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Diversification; Global diversity prediction; Hygrophoraceae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; DICTYONEMA GLABRATUM; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ICEBERG; LICHEN (ORGANISM); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

DIVERSIFICATION; GLOBAL DIVERSITY PREDICTION; HYGROPHORACEAE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; LICHENS;

EID: 84904991609     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403517111     Document Type: Article

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