Univ.-Prof.

Foreword | How to understand cryptogams? The development of research methods and their impact on the knowledge of cryptogams – A tribute to Josef POELT | Phylogeny of Tremella and cultiviation of T. fuciformis in Taiwan | Fungi on the leaf – a contribution towards a review of phyllosphere microbiology from the mycological perspective | Incentives and challenges for mycologists in the tropics | Fossil lichens from the Lower Devonian and their bacterial and fungal epi- and endobionts | The lichen flora of Germany - regional differences and biogeographical aspects | Towards a checklist of the lichens of the Alps | A contribution to the knowledge on the lichenological exploration of the greater Tibetan region with a special focus on the impact of Austrian scientists or explorers | The “Golden Period” of Italian lichenology and its importance in modern times | How molecular phylogenetics improve our understanding of bryophyte evolution, morphology and ecology – a tribute to the mossy side of Josef POELT | Index | The lichen thallus as a microbial habitat | Current forest pathogenic fungi in Northwest Germany | Mycorrhizas in the tropical montane forest of South Ecuador | Phylogeny, biogeography and host specificity of smut fungi | Phylogeny, diversity and morphological evolution of Amanitaceae | Ultrastructure in basidiomycetes – requirement for function | Fungal natural products – organismal diversity, seen from the (bio)chemical angle | Hypocrealean hyperepiphyllous ascomycetes | Focus on lichenicolous fungi: Diversity and taxonomy under the principle “one fungus – one name” | The Pucciniosiraceae: Taxonomy of a polyphyletic family of the rust fungi (Uredinales) | Distinctiveness of aecia and aeciospores in rust fungi on conifers | Remarks on species concepts in European Florae of rust fungi | Aphyllophorales: Indicators of nature value and habitat formers | Josef POELT – on his personality and his footprints in the history of lichenology | Heading towards a survey of fungi in Bavaria – Josef POELT’s contribution to achieving substantial progress

In September 2015, a scientific conference was held in Graz, Austria, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Josef Poelt’s death. This scientist was one of the most renowned botanists of the last century who worked on many groups of lower plants, fungi and especially lichens. Of the contributions at the conference, 25 have been worked out and are presented in this book. They have been written mainly by former doctoral students of Josef Poelt or their scholars, or by some of his colleagues with whom he had cooperated. 

In the first contribution, a description of Josef Poelt’s life and scientific career, his fields of study, his colleagues, important research trips, his scientific oeuvre and its approval within the scientific community is given. This paper also gives a list of Poelt’s doctoral students and the many fields they worked on. In the second contribution, an overview of the history and development of cryptogamic research is presented in view of more and more refined analysis techniques and the resulting outcome. 

These two reviews are followed by a series of papers on taxonomical, ecological and applied aspects of saprobic, symbiotic or parasitic fungi, or of lichens, respectively. The papers are based on classical, ecological, geographical as well as molecular studies and offer insight into the distribution or into the phylogeny and taxonomy of selected groups of fungi and lichens. A few papers stress aspects on the state of research of groups of organisms in special regions of the world, while others deal with the state of research from a historical point of view. The final contribution deals with phylogenetic aspects in mosses.

The more than 700-page book is complemented by many informative illustrations, schemes and images. 

Kerner von Marilaun Workshop 2015 in memory of Josef Poelt

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Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi, Lichens, and Mosses

Nach den „Rostpilzen Österreichs“ in zwei Teilen (POELT u. ZWETKO 1997 und ZWETKO 2000) wird nun in dem vorliegenden Band „Die Brandpilze Österreichs“ der Serie Catalogi Florae Austriae die zweite große Gruppe parasitischer Basidiomyceten behandelt. Auf der Basis von Herbarbelegen der letzten 160 Jahre, von Angaben ausgewiesener Brandpilzspezialisten sowie von umfangreicher Literatur werden das Vorkommen und die Verbreitung von 168 Arten aus 25 Gattungen von Brandpilzen, die in Österreich nachgewiesen wurden, mit kurzen Anmerkungen zu Taxonomie und Gesamtverbreitung der Taxa in Europa beschrieben. Angaben zum Vorkommen in den entsprechenden Höhenstufen und Naturräumen ergänzen diese Darstellung. Die Mehrzahl der für Österreich belegten Gattungen – 23 Gattungen mit 139 Arten – gehört zu den Ustilaginomycetes, die beiden Gattungen Microbotryum und Sphacelotheca mit 29 Arten gehören zu den Urediniomycetes. Weitere 166 Brandpilzarten, die bisher für Österreich nicht nachgewiesen werden konnten, deren Wirtspflanzen jedoch hier vorkommen und die in manchen Fällen bereits im grenznahen Ausland gefunden wurden, werden im Catalogus in gleicher Weise besprochen. Für zehn Brandpilzarten wurden Wirte, die in VºNKYs „European Smut Fungi“ (1994) nicht erwähnt sind, gefunden. Alle Taxa werden entsprechend ihrer Stellung im neuen System der Brandpilze angeordnet besprochen. Die Verbreitung der Gattung Anthracoidea – sie ist die für das Gebiet am besten dokumentierte Gattung – wird eingehend diskutiert. Für ausgewählte Arten werden Verbreitungskarten beigefügt. Karten für alle aus Österreich nachgewiesenen Arten, Fotografien sowie Artenlisten der Brandpilze für die Bundesländer und Naturräume Österreichs sind auf der dem Buch beigefügten CD enthalten.  An annotated checklist of smut fungi from Austria is presented. Altogether 168 species in 25 genera have been counted so far. The host plants of 166 further smut species occur in Austria. These species are listed also in the catalogus. Ten smut species are recorded on noteworthy host plants, which are not mentioned by VºNKY (1994). All genera recorded from the area are arranged in a synopsis showing their current position in the modern classification system for smut fungi. Grid maps for all species, photographies and check lists of smut fungi from the political and ecological regions of Austria are presented on the CD published with the book. 

Doassansiales, Entorrhizales, Entylomatales, Georgefischeriales, Microbotryales, Tilletiales, Urocystales, Ustilaginales. Catalogus Florae Austriae III/3

Paul A. Blanz

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