Joel Alejandro Mercado-Díaz, Puerto Rican ecologist and lichenologist.

IPNI standard form: Merc.-Díaz

Taxon names authored

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• 6 taxon names authored by Joel Alejandro Mercado-Díaz

Publications

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• Lücking, R., Seavey, F., Common, R.S., Beeching, S.Q., Breuss, O., Buck, W.R., Crane, L., Hodges, M., Hodkinson, B.P., Lay, E., Lendemer, J.C., McMullin, R.T., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Nelsen, M.P., Rivas Plata, E., Safranek, W., Sanders, W.B., Schaefer, H.P., Jr. & Seavey, J. 2011. The lichens of Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida: Proceedings from the 18th Tuckerman Workshop. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 49(4): 127–186. Florida Museum of Natural History (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Lücking, R., Rivas Plata, E., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Ertz, D., Mangold, A., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Papong, K.B., Van den Broeck, D., Weerakoon, G. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Revisiting the phylogeny of Ocellularieae, the second largest tribe within Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 189(1): 52–81. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.6 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Lumbsch, H.T., Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Rivas Plata, E., Aptroot, A., Caceres, M.E.S., Ertz, D., Feuerstein, S.C., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Staiger, B., Van den Broeck, D. & Lücking, R. 2014. New higher taxa in the lichen family Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) based on a three-gene skeleton phylogeny. Phytotaxa 189(1): 39–51. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.5 . ResearchGate . USDA (PDF). Reference page. 
• Nelsen, M.P., Lücking, R., Andrew, C.J., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Rivas Plata, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Molecular phylogeny reveals the true colours of Myeloconidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales). Australian systematic botany 27(1): 38–47. DOI: 10.1071/SB13040 Reference page. 
• Aptroot, A., Ertz, D., Etayo, J.A., Gueidan, C., Mercado Díaz, J.A., Schumm, F. & Weerakoon, G. 2016. Forty-six new species of Trypetheliaceae from the tropics. The Lichenologist 48(6): 609–638. DOI: 10.1017/S002428291600013X . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Nelsen, M.P., Aptroot, A., Barillas de Klee, R., Bawingan, P.A., Benatti, M.N., Nguyen, Q.B., Bungartz, F., Cáceres, M.E.S., Canêz, L.S., Chaves, J.L., Ertz, D., Esquivel, R.E., Ferraro, L.I., Grijalva, A., Gueidan, C., Hernández, J.E., Knight, A., Lumbsch, H.T., Marcelli, M.P., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Moncada, B., Morales, E.A., Naksuwankul, K., Orozco, T., Parnmen, S., Rivas Plata, E., Salazar-Allen, N., Spielmann, A.A. & Ventura, N.E. 2016. A phylogenetic framework for reassessing generic concepts and species delimitation in the lichenized family Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes). The Lichenologist 48(6): 739–762. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282916000505 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Moncada, B., Mercado-Díaz, J.A. & Lücking, R. 2018. The identity of Sticta damicornis (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae): a presumably widespread taxon is a Caribbean endemic. The Lichenologist 50(5): 591–597. RLL List # 255 / Rec.# 40702 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0024282918000373 Reference page.