Robert Lücking

Robert Lücking (born 1964) is a German lichenologist. He earned his master's and PhD from the University of Ulm, focusing on the taxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity of foliicolous lichens (lichens that live on leaves). He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Mason E. Hale award for his doctoral thesis, the Augustin Pyramus de Candolle prize for his monograph, and the Tuckerman Award twice for his publications in The Bryologist. Since 2015, he has been serving as the curator of lichens, fungi, and bryophytes at the Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, and several lichen species and a genus have been named in his honour.

Robert Lücking
Born1964
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Ulm
AwardsMason E. Hale Award (1996); Augustin Pyramus de Candolle prize (2008); Tuckerman Award (2008, 2017)
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
InstitutionsField Museum of Natural History; Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
Author abbrev. (botany)Lücking[1]

Life and career

Born in Ulm in 1964, Lücking earned both his master's (1990) and PhD degree (1994) at the University of Ulm in biology. Both degrees concerned the taxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity of foliicolous lichens.[2] His graduate supervisor was mycologist and bryologist Sieghard Winkler, who had previously studied epiphyllous (upper leaf-dwelling) fungi in El Salvador and Colombia.[3] In 1996 Lücking was awarded the Mason E. Hale award for an "outstanding doctoral thesis presented by a candidate on a lichenological theme". His thesis was titled Foliikole Flechten und ihre Mikrohabitatpraferenzen in einem tropischen Regenwald in Costa Rica ("Foliicolous lichens and their microhabitat preferences in a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica"). In this work, Lücking recorded 177 foliicolous lichen species from the shrub layer in a Costa Rican tropical forest.[4] Lücking later won the 2008 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle prize for a monograph he published based on this work;[5] this award is given every four years by the Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève to "reward the author or -authors of the best monograph of a genus or family of plants".[6]

After a short-term assignment as a visiting professor in Recife, Brazil, he undertook a two-year post-doctoral stint in Ulm to further study foliicolous lichens. Lücking earned his habilitation from his studies (1998–2001) at the University of Bayreuth, under the supervision of Gerhard Rambold. In 2001, he was hired as adjunct curator at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, and was later promoted to research collections manager for mycology.[2] Lücking and co-authors have twice been bestowed with the Tuckerman Award from the American Bryological and Lichenological Society; this award is given to the most outstanding lichenological paper published each year in the scientific journal The Bryologist. The first (awarded in 2008) was for their publication about the Gomphillaceae in eastern North America,[7] while the second (awarded in 2017) was the highly cited "2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota".[8] Since 2015, Lücking has been the curator of lichens, fungi, and bryophytes at the Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum. Other research interests of his include fungal evolution, systematics, and nomenclature.[9]

Eponymy

Several lichen species have been named to honour Lücking. These include: Aspidothelium lueckingii Flakus (2009);[10] Byssoloma lueckingii Sérus. (1995);[11] Calenia lueckingii C.Hartmann (1996);[12] Chapsa lueckingii Kalb (2009);[13] Coenogonium lueckingii Y.Joshi, Gagarina, J.P.Halda & Hur (2015);[14] Dictyomeridium lueckingii Flakus & Aptroot (2016);[15] Enterographa lueckingii Kalb (2001); Graphis lueckingii Dal-Forno & Eliasaro (2010);[16] Hypotrachyna lueckingii Sipman (2011); Kalbographa lueckingii Kalb (2009);[17] Mazosia lueckingii Kr.P.Singh & Pinokiyo (2008);[18] Palicella lueckingii Rodr.Flakus (2018);[19] Pertusaria lueckingii Bungartz, A.W.Archer & Elix (2015);[20] Phlyctis lueckingii Weerakoon & Aptroot (2016);[21] Platygramme lueckingii Z.F.Jia & Kalb (2012);[22] and Thelotrema lueckingii Breuss (2013).[23] The genus Lueckingia Aptroot & Umaña (2008) is also named after him.[24]

Selected publications

Lücking is a highly published scientist, and has formally described hundreds of fungal and lichen species new to science. A few of his major or highly cited works include:

  • Lücking, Robert; Buck, William R.; Plata, Eimy Rivas (2007). "The lichen family Gomphillaceae (Ostropales) in eastern North America, with notes on hyphophore development in Gomphillus and Gyalideopsis". The Bryologist. 110 (4): 622–672. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[622:tlfgoi]2.0.co;2. S2CID 85989163.
  • Rivas Plata, Eimy; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2011). "A new classification for the family Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes: Ostropales)". Fungal Diversity. 52 (1): 107–121. doi:10.1007/s13225-011-0135-8. S2CID 6905176.
  • Lücking, Robert; Dal-Forno, Manuela; Sikaroodi, Masoumeh; Gillevet, Patrick M.; Bungartz, Frank; Moncada, Bibiana; et al. (2014). "A single macrolichen constitutes hundreds of unrecognized species". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (30): 11091–11096. doi:10.1073/pnas.1403517111. PMC 4121827. PMID 24982168.
  • Aptroot, André; Lücking, Robert (2016). "A revisionary synopsis of the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Trypetheliales)". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 763–982. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000487. S2CID 89119724.
  • Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 361–416. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. JSTOR 44250015. S2CID 90258634.
  • Hawksworth, David L.; Lücking, Robert (2017). "Fungal Diversity Revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 Million Species". Microbiology Spectrum. 5 (4): 1–17. doi:10.1128/microbiolspec.funk-0052-2016. PMID 28752818.
  • Lücking, Robert; Aime, M. Catherine; Robbertse, Barbara; Miller, Andrew N.; Ariyawansa, Hiran A.; Aoki, Takayuki; et al. (2020). "Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?". IMA Fungus. 11 (1): 14. doi:10.1186/s43008-020-00033-z. PMC 7353689. PMID 32714773.

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Robert Lücking

References
  1. "Lücking, Robert (fl. 1991)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  2. Kärnefelt, Ingvar (2009). "Fifty influential lichenologists". In Thell, Arne; Seaward, Mark R.D.; Feuerer, Tassilo (eds.). Diversity of Lichenology – Anniversary Volume. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 100. Stuttgart: J. Kramer. p. 320. ISBN 978-3-443-58079-7.
  3. "Lichenology – Past, Present and Future « Life Sciences# « Cambridge Core Blog". Cambridge Core blog. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  4. Kärnefelt, E.I. "The presentation of the Mason E. Hale Award to Robert Lücking" (PDF). International Lichenological Newsletter. 29 (3): 60.
  5. Clerc, Philippe (2008). "Eloge de Robert Lücking: Laureat 2008 du prix SPHN Augustin Pyramus de Candolle" (PDF). Archives des Sciences (in French). 61: 74.
  6. Audard, Marc (24 August 2022). "Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, SPHN". Université de Genève (in French). Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  7. "News from the Annual ABLS meeting". The Bryologist. 111 (4): 688–689. 2008. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-111.4.688. S2CID 198153592.
  8. "News and Notes". The Bryologist. 120 (3): 370. 2017. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-120.3.370. S2CID 198151864.
  9. Hawksworth, David L. (2020). "MycoNews 2020: President's message, news, reports, awards, personalia, book news, and correspondence". IMA Fungus. 11 (1): 28. doi:10.1186/s43008-020-00049-5. PMC 7774014. PMID 33384025.
  10. Flakus, A. (2009). "Aspidothelium lueckingii: a new lichenized fungus from Bolivia". Nova Hedwigia. 88 (1–2): 139–143. doi:10.1127/0029-5035/2009/0088-0139.
  11. Sérusiaux, E. (1995). "Further new lichen species producing campylidia or complex conidiomata". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 58: 411–431.
  12. Hartmann, Claudia (1996). "Two new foliicolous species of Calenia (lichens, Gomphillaceae) from Costa Rica". Mycotaxon. 59: 483–488.
  13. Kalb, Klaus (2009). "New taxa and new records of thelotremoid Graphidaceae" (PDF). Herzogia. 22: 17–42 [25].
  14. Joshi, Y.; Gagarina, L.; Halda, J.P.; Oh, S.-O.; Hur, J.-S. (2015). "A new species and a new record of the lichen genus Coenogonium (Ostropales: Coenogoniaceae) from South Korea, with a world-wide key to crustose Coenogonium having prothalli". Mycosphere. 6 (6): 667–672. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/6/6/3.
  15. Flakus, Adam; Kukwa, Martin; Aptroot, André (2016). "Trypetheliaceae of Bolivia: an updated checklist with descriptions of twenty-four new species". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 661–692. doi:10.1017/s0024282915000559. S2CID 89161746.
  16. Dal-Forno, Manuela; Eliasaro, Sionara (2009). "Four new species of Graphis (Ostropales: Graphidaceae) from Brazil". The Lichenologist. 42 (1): 77–81. doi:10.1017/s002428290999034x. S2CID 86059236.
  17. Kalb, K.; Buaruang, K.; Papong, K.; Boonpragob, K. (2009). "New or otherwise interesting lichens from the tropics, including the lichen genus Ramboldia in Thailand". Mycotaxon. 110 (1): 109–123. doi:10.5248/110.109.
  18. Singh, Krishna Pal; Pinokiyo, Athokpam (2008). "New taxa of foliicolous lichens from eastern India". The Lichenologist. 40 (1): 23–29. doi:10.1017/s0024282908006889. S2CID 86336921.
  19. Rodriguez-Flakus, P. (2018). "Palicella lueckingii (Lecanorales, Ascomycota), a new lichen species inhabiting Araucaria from the extratropical South America". Phytotaxa. 344 (1): 24–30. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.3.
  20. Bungartz, Frank; Elix, John A.; Yánez-Ayabaca, Alba; Archer, Alan W. (2015). "Endemism in the genus Pertusaria (Pertusariales, lichenized Ascomycota) from the Galapagos Islands". Telopea. 18: 325–369. doi:10.7751/telopea8895.
  21. Weerakoon, Gothamie; Wolseley, Patricia A.; Arachchige, Omal; Eugenia da Silva Cáceres, Marcela; Jayalal, Udeni; Aptroot, André (2016). "Eight new lichen species and 88 new records from Sri Lanka". The Bryologist. 119 (2): 131–142. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.2.131. S2CID 89247649.
  22. Jia, Ze-Feng; Kalb, Klaus (2013). "Taxonomical studies on the lichen genus Platygramme (Graphidaceae) in China" (PDF). The Lichenologist. 45 (2): 145–151. doi:10.1017/s0024282912000709. ISSN 0024-2829. S2CID 85130935.
  23. Breuss, O. (2013). "Byssoloma laurisilvae und Thelotrema lueckingii, zwei neue Flechtenarten aus Madeira" (PDF). Österreichische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde (in German). 22: 99–105.
  24. Aptroot, A.; Umaña, L.; Chaves, J.L.; Trest, M.T. (2006). "A first assessment of the Ticolichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica: three new squamulose genera (Lecanorales: Ramalinaceae and Pilocarpaceae)". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 100: 617–624.
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