Bryophyte photo of the week: Hall of mosses

Source:
http://porbital.deviantart.com/art/Hall-of-mosses-206700899

A new publication on the bryophytes of Québec and Labrador

Good day all bryoneters

Announcing a new publication on the bryophytes of Québec and Labrador :

Faubert, J., J. Gagnon, P. Boudier, C. Roy, R. Gauthier, N. Dignard, D. Bastien, M. Lapointe, N. Dénommée, S. Pellerin et H. Rheault, 2011. Bryophytes nouvelles, rares et remarquables du Québec–Labrador. Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune, Direction de la recherche forestière, 198 p.

It is available on the web site of the Quebec Government ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune at:

http://www.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca/forets/connaissances/recherche/repertoires/cv/DignardNorman.jsp

In french, but readily understandable to all because of the format.

Jean Faubert

Abstract:

Recent botanical investigations in Québec, notably in northern regions difficult to access, allowed us to update our knowledge of the bryoflora of this vast territory. New information is presented on 1 hornworth, 62 liverworts, 4 sphagna and 72 mosses. Of these 139 taxa, 3 mosses and 1 liverwort are new to Canada, and 13 liverworts, 2 sphagna and 14 mosses are mentioned for the first time in Québec–Labrador. Numerous range extensions are reported, notably for rare taxa. Distinctive characteristics are discussed for each taxon and a dichotomic key is presented for difficult taxa. A distribution map within Québec–Labrador completes the information for 135 taxa. Eleven species historically mentioned for this territory are now excluded.

Jean Faubert

The Seattle region's coldest April on record is a boon for moss

FROM:

Seattle shivers in the coldest average high temperature for the first half of April on record. But while some plants are way behind schedule, others, such as moss, are reveling in our cool, damp spring.

By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times staff reporter

STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Chilly?

That doesn't begin to say it: Seattle is shivering — enduring the coldest average high temperature for the first half of April on record at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. And there's no end in sight, the National Weather Service says.

The Februarylike weather has been sticking around, even as rainfall this month has come in at about 3 inches — more than what usually falls in all of April.

Blame it in part on the jet stream, parked to the south, bringing a cool western, northwesterly flow of air our way, and allowing disturbances to ride into the southern states, including deadly tornadoes in the Southeast.

For us, this weather is just a vector for spring fever, with warmer temperatures teasing us during brief sunbreaks amid implacable clouds.

It's all relative, of course. Our crummy spring is a glory for that signature denizen of Seattle: moss. The glorious green yang to our gloomy gray yin, moss is reveling in all this cool, moist weather.

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Lindbergia on-line

As many of you may know, Lindbergia is a journal that publishes original research in any field of bryology, and recently also lichenology.

It is my pleasure as Editor-in-chief of Lindbergia to announce that the journal from now on will be available on-line as an Open Access journal.

Thanks to economic support from the owners of Lindbergia, the Nordic Bryological Society and the Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society, all published papers will be free for download from volume 34 and onwards. For the time being it will also be free for authors to publish papers in Lindbergia.

The scope of the journal will remain unchanged. Submitted manuscripts will be subjected to peer review and published promptly after acceptance and final editing.

Older volumes of Lindbergia (currently until volume 31:1) are already available on-line through JSTOR ( http://www.jstor.org/journals/01050761.html ).

Webb-address for Lindbergia is:

http://www.lindbergia.nu/

Cordially,

Nils Cronberg, Editor-in-chief

Lindbergia – A journal opposing the tracheophytocentric conception of the world!

TROPICOS as a source for bryophyte literature citations

The recent discussions on bryonet concerning the availability of regional floras has led to an enhancement of the References section of TROPICOS as an aid to locating these.
The TROPICOS References database contains just over 120,000 citations, and nearly 38,000 are coded as bryophyte. The TROPICOS system has been used for about 25 years to accumulate the citations in the Recent Literature on Mosses, later Bryophytes, column in The Bryologist.

The keyword search option has recently been modified to allow the use of more than one key word. By adding bryophyte to your key word, you will eliminate items that do not pertain to bryophytes. For example, the keyword Florida returns 226 items; the keywords Florida,bryophyte returns 32 items. Lists are returned sorted by author, but by clicking on the Year column, the list will be resorted by year of publication, oldest to most recent. Click Year again, and the list will be resorted most recent to oldest. Thus one may obtain a list literature on Florida bryophytes that is easily examined for the most recently published literature. Other examples: China - 2,561 records; China,bryophyte - 1355; China,bryophyte,Mniaceae, 6. Finland, - 252; Finland,bryophyte - 220; Finland,bryophyte,Mniaceae - 1. Mniaceae - 85; Mniaceae,cytology - 4.
Notes to assist your searches:
Go to http://www.tropicos.org/Home.aspx
Click References in yellow bar near top of screen
Click Advanced Search in Reference Search rectangle
Enter your keywords in the Keyword rectangle, separating each with a comma
Text is not case-sensitive, so you dont need to bother shifting
Caveat: our keywording is subject to the enterers' whims; we are more precise with systematic and geographic keywords; some items keyed with bryophyte may be marginally bryophytic or not bryophytic at all due to the use of References in the early stages of development for wider subject matter.
Biographical information may be searched by entering bio- followed by the family name of the person, thus bio-hedwig.

Marshall Robert CROSBY