Musgo y anfibio

Esta bellísima foto la comparte con todos nosotros Felipe Osorio (Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela de Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología y Evolución, Valdivia, Chile).

Bufo variegatus (Gunther, 1870) sobre Tetraplodon mnioides (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.

Briolatina 59 ya esta disponible

Visiten el sitio web de la SLB para leer el interesante número más reciente de Briolatina, el boletín informativo de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Briología.
El boletín es editado en Merida-Venezuela por Yelitza León V. La correspondencia debe ser dirigida a la editora: Yelitza León, "yetleon@ula.ve"

Indice

Editorial

Noticias:

Desde Puerto Rico
Desde Brasil
En Colombia
En Panamá
En Venezuela

Los nuevos blogs en briología

Literatura interesante para Latinoamérica

Nuestras Briofitas

Nuestras Briofitas: Aneura pinguis (L.) Dum

Fuente de la información:

Briolatina 59



Aneura pinguis (L.) Dum Una especie de amplia distribución es mostrada en esta foto de Ricardo Rico con sus ramas anteridiales.

Foto botanica del dia : Hylocomium splendens

Fuente de la información:
Botany Photo of the Day: Hylocomium splendens

BRIOFITAS DE LOS BOSQUES TEMPLADOS DE CHILE

BRIOLOGOS DE LATINOAMERICA Y EL MUNDO,

Felipe Osorio ha tenido la amabilidad de enviarnos el enlace electrónico de una excelente guía de briofitas de acceso gratuito.

El libro se puede ver en este enlace electrónico:
http://www.chilebosque.cl/guiabriofitas.html

Aqui un nuevo link para que la gente pueda tener acceso al mismo.

http://www.cormabiobio.cl/6accionar/bibliotecas/documentos/Briofitas_web.pdf

Nuevo libro: Bryophyte Biology

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Bryophyte Biology
Cambridge University Press

9780521872256 - Bryophyte Biology - By Bernard Goffinet and A. Jonathan Shaw

Bryophyte Biology provides an extensive overview of the hornworts, liverworts, and mosses; diverse groups of land plants that occupy a great variety of habitats throughout the world. This new edition covers essential aspects of bryophyte biology, from morphology, physiological ecology and conservation, to speciation, and genomics. Revised classifications incorporate contributions from recent phylogenetic studies. Six new chapters complement fully updated chapters from the original book to provide a completely up-to-date resource. New chapters focus on the contributions of Physcomitrella to plant genomic research, population ecology of bryophytes, mechanisms of drought tolerance, a phylogenomic perspective on land plant evolution, and problems and progress of bryophyte speciation and conservation. Written by leaders in the field, this book offers an authoritative treatment of bryophyte biology, with rich citation of the current literature, suitable for advanced students and researchers.

• Up-to-date classifications of mosses, liverworts and hornworts based on the latest molecular results • Coverage of all aspects of bryophyte biology by experts in the field. • The book is rich in references to primary literature, providing an entry point for more intensive research.

Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
1 Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta Barbara Crandall-Stotler, Raymond E. Stotler and David G. Long	1
2 Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta Bernard Goffinet, William R. Buck and A. Jonathan Shaw	55
3 New insights into morphology, anatomy, and systematics of hornworts Karen S. Renzaglia, Juan C. Villarreal and R. Joel Duff	139
4 Phylogenomics and early land plant evolution Brent D. Mishler and Dean G. Kelch	173
5 Mosses as model organisms for developmental, cellular, and molecular biology Andrew C. Cuming	199
6 Physiological ecology Michael C. F. Proctor	237
7 Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in bryophytes Melvin J. Oliver	269
8 Mineral nutrition and substratum ecology Jeff W. Bates	299
9 The structure and function of bryophyte-dominated peatlands Dale H. Vitt and R. Kelman Wieder	357
10 Population and community ecology of bryophytes Hakan Rydin	393
11 Bryophyte species and speciation A. Jonathan Shaw	445
12 Conservation biology of bryophytes Alain Vanderpoorten and Tomas Hallingbäck	487
Index	535

IAB inicia su blog

Con el propósito de promover la comunicación entre los miembros de la International Association of Bryologists se ha iniciado un blog.

El sitio puede ser revisado aqui >>>

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Index Hepaticarum now available online

Dear Bryologists,

I am pleased to announce that Index Hepaticarum is available online through the website of Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques (G) as the Index Hepaticarun Names Database on the following link:
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/hepatic/index.php

Index Hepaticarum, a list of all specific and infra-specific hornwort and liverwort names published between the effective dates of 01.01.1853 and 31.12.1973, was started at G in the 1950's by the then curator of bryophytes Charles Bonner. The aim of the project was to collate together all published hornwort and liverwort names and make these available to the scientific community to facilitate systematic research on these two groups of plants. Upon Bonner's death it was decided that the project Index Hepaticarum would remain based at G with Patricia Geissler and Helene Bischler responsible for editing the second editions of the original Index Hepaticarum series with P. Geissler at G responsible for running the project database. A total of 13 volumes of Index Hepaticarum have been published to date and the final two volumes in this series are currently in preparation at G.

Index Hepaticarum as it stands today, the reference for liverwort and hornwort nomenclature, was an international collaboration greatly facilitated by the IAB. The project was assisted extensively in the collation and verification of data by the larger bryological community: H. Bischler, J. J. Engel, S. R. Gradstein, P. Geissler, R. Grolle, A. J. Harrington, S. Hattori, H. Inoue, S. Jovet, Y. Kuwahara, D. Lamy, D. Long, H. A. Miller, T. Pocs, G. A. M. Scott, R. E. Stotler, J. Vana, D. A. J. Vogelpoel, S. Willi-Bonner, K. Yamada, G. Zijlstra.

The Index Hepaticarum Names Database contains over 30'000 entries and its strength lies in the provision of publication, basionym and brief type data for the older names of hornworts and liverworts published between the effective publication dates 1853-1973. Names published after 1973 were collated at F by Dr. J.J. Engel and have been published as a series of Index Hepaticarum supplements in TAXON and more recently by Crosby & Engel (2006) as the Index of Hepatics 1974-2000 by The Hattori Botanical Laboratory.

In the Index Hepaticarum Names Database the search fields are presently written in French (to be provided in English in the near future) but here is a brief summary of the search process in the meantime:

From the menu bar at the top of the page choose "Recherche".

On this page you can enter the generic name in the search field "saisie le nom de genre ici" and the epithet can be entered in the search field "saisie le non d'espèce ici". A search can be performed by genus only, by species epithet only or for a particular name by using the two fields combined. You can add partial names followed by a "%" sign to capture all data under the shortened entry, ie. "Jungerman%" would pull all entries for Jungermannia, Jungermanniopsis and Jungermannites.

The presentation of our data still needs a bit of work (upcoming!) but the data is there for you to use now in its electronic format. I would greatly appreciate any corrections that you may have regarding the data, especially as I would like the Index Hepaticarum Names Database to be as accurate as possible for those names published during the time period with which it is concerned.

I thank everyone who has assisted with this project both in the past and more recently, especially Anne Streiff who worked hard on correcting for data of names A-Jubula and on standardising the database (authorities by Brummit & Powell for example), and I hope that Index Hepaticarum will be useful to you all in its new electronic format.

With my best wishes,

Michelle Price
Curator of bryophytes, ferns and gymnosperms (G)
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
Chemin de l’Impératrice, 1
Case postale 60
1292 Chambésy-GE
Switzerland