Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Lichenized Fungi

Dear Colleagues,

Research on lichenized fungi relies on many approaches and pursues multiple objectives, ranging from basic research to more applied studies on conservation, biomonitoring, and biotechnology. However, basic research is essential for creating solid foundations for the development of applicative perspectives. In particular, names and localities are the essential starting point towards understanding, protecting, and using the biodiversity of lichenized fungi and to outline new research frontiers. Field exploration, georeferenced species inventories, descriptions of new taxa, and critical nomenclature revisions are expected to trigger multiple developments in many fields, including conservation, symbiosis mechanisms, biomonitoring, pharmaceutical uses, and the discovery of evolutionary patterns.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Fungi is therefore intended to stimulate and aggregate original research devoted to increasing our knowledge on the biodiversity, distribution, and taxonomy of lichenized fungi. We encourage multiple approaches, from morphological, molecular, metabolomic, and eco-distributional analyses (integrative taxonomy) to analyses of species functional traits and bioinformatics. Species inventories and studies based on recent and historical herbarium material are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Juri Nascimbene
Dr. Luana Francesconi
Guest Editors

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