Helge Thorsten Lumbsch

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Helge Thorsten Lumbsch
Born1964
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Marburg; University of Duisburg-Essen
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
InstitutionsField Museum of Natural History
Author abbrev. (botany)Lumbsch[1]

Helge Thorsten Lumbsch (born 1964) is a German-born lichenologist living in the United States. His research interests include the phylogeny, taxonomy, and phylogeography of lichen-forming fungi; lichen diversity; lichen chemistry and chemotaxonomy. He is the Associate Curator and Head of Cryptogams and Chair of the Department of Botany at the Field Museum of Natural History.

Biography[]

Lumbsch was born in Frankfurt in 1964. Interested in lichens already as a schoolboy, he studied natural sciences at the University of Marburg, under the tutelage of Aino Henssen. He received his diploma in 1989, with a dissertation titled Ontogenetisch-systematische Studien der Trapeliaceae und verwandter Familien (Lichenisierte Ascomyceten) ("Ontogenic-systematic studies of the Trapeliaceae and related families (lichenized ascomycetes"). After Henssen's retirement in 1990, he transferred to the University in Essen, where he worked on the group in Australasia, a subject that was the topic of his PhD dissertation. In 1993 he completed his doctorate under the supervision of .[2]

Between 1994 and 1997, Lumbsch did postdoctoral research at the Botanical Garden of the University of Duisburg-Essen; in 1998–2003 he was a private lecturer there. Between 2003 and 2006 he was the Assistant curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. Since 2004, Lumbsch has been a member of committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, an interdepartmental and inter-institutional graduate student training program. In the years 2005–2009 he was the head of Cryptogams at the Field Museum, and between 2006 and 2014, the Associate Curator.[2] Lumbsch was the president of the International Association for Lichenology in the years 2012–2016.[3]

Lumbsch has been the author or coauthor of more than 500 publications, many of which deal with molecular phylogenetics of various taxa of lichens.[2] In his 2009 survey of influential lichenologists, Ingvar Kärnefelt calls him "a leading scientist on systematics and evolution of lichenized fungi."[4]

Eponymy[]

Several lichen species have been named in honour of Lumbsch, including:[2] Elix (1996);[5] A.W.Archer (2001);[6] Moncada & Lücking (2013);[7] Weerakoon, Jayalal & Lücking (2015);[8] S.Joshi & Hur (2015);[9] and A.W.Archer & Elix (2017).[10]

Selected publications[]

  • Printzen, Christian; Lumbsch, H.Thorsten (2000). "Molecular evidence for the diversification of extant lichens in the late Cretaceous and Tertiary". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 17 (3): 379–387. doi:10.1006/mpev.2000.0856. PMID 11133192.
  • Lumbsch, H. T.; Ahti, T.; Altermann, S.; De Paz, G. A.; Aptroot, A.; Arup, U.; et al. (2011). "One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 18 (1): 1–127. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1.
  • Huang, Jen-Pan; Kraichak, Ekaphan; Leavitt, Steven D.; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2019). "Accelerated diversifications in three diverse families of morphologically complex lichen-forming fungi link to major historical events". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 8518. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-44881-1. PMC 6599062. PMID 31253825.
  • Mercado‐Díaz, Joel A.; Lücking, Robert; Moncada, Bibiana; Widhelm, Todd J.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2020). "Elucidating species richness in lichen fungi: The genus Sticta (Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae) in Puerto Rico". Taxon. 69 (5): 851–891. doi:10.1002/tax.12320.

A partial list of his publications (249) may be found by accessing the Scholia link above.

See also: Category:Taxa named by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch

References[]

  1. ^ "Lumbsch, Helge Thorsten (1964–)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Hertel, Hannes; Gärtner, Georg; Lőkös, László (2017). "Forscher an Österreichs Flechtenflora" [Investigators of Austria's lichen flora] (PDF). Stapfia (in German). 104 (2): 1–211 (see p. 205).
  3. ^ "IAL COUNCIL 2012–2016". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  4. ^ Kärnefelt 2009, p. 318.
  5. ^ Elix, John A. (1996). "New species in the lichen family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycotina) from Australasia and Oceania". Mycotaxon. 59: 407–417.
  6. ^ Archer, A.W. (2001). "The lichen genus Graphina (Graphidaceae) in Australia: new reports and new species". Mycotaxon. 77: 153–180.
  7. ^ Moncada, Bibiana; Lücking, Robert; Coca, Luis Fernando (2013). "Six new apotheciate species of Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) from the Colombian Andes". The Lichenologist. 45 (5): 635–656. doi:10.1017/S0024282913000376. S2CID 86204092.
  8. ^ Weerakoon, Gothamie; Jayalal, Udeni; Wijesundara, Siril; Karunaratne, Veranja; Lücking, Robert (2015). "Six new Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) from Horton Plains National Park, Sri Lanka". Nova Hedwigia. 101 (1): 77–88. doi:10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2015/0241.
  9. ^ Joshi, Santosh; Upreti, Dalip Kumar; Plata, Eimy Rivas; Nguyen, Thi Thuy; Nguyen, Anh Dzung; Oh, Soon-Ok; Hur, Jae-Seoun (2015). "Ocellularia lumbschii and O. saxicola spp. nov. from Vietnam". Mycotaxon. 130 (3): 911–919. doi:10.5248/130.911.
  10. ^ Archer, A.W.; Elix, J.A. (2017). "Seven new species and a new record in the lichen genus Pertusaria (Pertusariales, lichenized Ascomycota) from eastern Australia". Australasian Lichenology. 80: 3–15.

Cited literature[]

  • Kärnefelt, Ingvar (2009). "Fifty influential lichenologists". In Thell, Arne; Seaward, Mark R. D.; Feuerer, Tassilo (eds.). Diversity of Lichenology – Anniversary Volume. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 100. Stuttgart: J. Kramer. pp. 283–368. ISBN 978-3-443-58079-7.
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