Irwin Murray Brodo
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Dr. Irwin M. Brodo is an emeritus scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature
, in Ottawa
, Ontario
, Canada. He is a world authority on the identification and biology of lichens. Irwin Brodo was honored in 1994 with an Acharius Medal
presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology.
Dr. Brodo's list of publications includes 75 research papers, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. One of Irwin Brodo's great achievements was the publication of the 795 page book, "Lichens of North America" which is filled with high quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff. It won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award
(Nature Guidebook).
Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing...
, in Ottawa
Ottawa
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, Ontario
Ontario
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, Canada. He is a world authority on the identification and biology of lichens. Irwin Brodo was honored in 1994 with an Acharius Medal
Acharius Medal
The Acharius Medal is awarded for lifetime achievement in lichenology.The first Acharius Medal was made by the Royal Swedish Mint for the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1846, although the medal's original purpose has not been recorded...
presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology.
Dr. Brodo's list of publications includes 75 research papers, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. One of Irwin Brodo's great achievements was the publication of the 795 page book, "Lichens of North America" which is filled with high quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff. It won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award
National Outdoor Book Award
The National Outdoor Book Award was formed in 1997 as a US-based non-profit program which each year honors the best in outdoor writing and publishing. It is housed at Idaho State University and chaired by Ron Watters. Awards are presented in ten categories. The award is announced in early November...
(Nature Guidebook).
List of lichen species named by Irwin Brodo
- Alectoria imshaugii Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Alectoria vancouverensis (Gyelnik) Gyelnik ex Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Amygdalaria consentiens (Nyl.) Hertel, Brodo & Mas. Inoue
- Amygdalaria continua Brodo & Hertel
- Amygdalaria elegantior (H. Magn.) Hertel & Brodo
- Amygdalaria haidensis Brodo & Hertel
- Amygdalaria panaeola (Ach.) Hertel & Brodo
- Amygdalaria subdissentiens (Nyl.) Mas. Inoue & Brodo
- Aspicilia laxula (H. Magn.) Brodo
- BryoriaBryoriaBryoria is a genus of lichenized fungi within the Parmeliaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in boreal and cool temperate areas, and contains 51 species.-Species:*Bryoria bicolor*Bryoria capillaris...
Brodo & D. Hawksw. - Bryoria bicolor (Ehrh.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria capillaris (Ach.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria carlottae Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria cervinula Mot. ex Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria chalybeiformis (L.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria fremontii (Tuck.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria friabilis Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria furcellata (Fr.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria fuscescens (Gyelnik) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria glabra (Mot.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria implexa (Hoffm.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria lanestris (Ach.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria nadvornikiana (Gyelnik) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria nitidula (Th. Fr.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria pikei Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria pseudocapillaris Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria pseudofuscescens (Gyelnik) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria salazinica Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria simplicior (Vainio) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria spiralifera Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria subcana (Nyl. ex Stizenb.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria tenuis (E. Dahl) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria tortuosa (G. Merr.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Bryoria trichodes (Michaux) Brodo & D. Hawksw. subsp. trichodes
- Bryoria trichodes subsp. americana (Mot.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Caloplaca litoricola Brodo
- Cladonia albonigra Brodo & Ahti
- Cladonia labradorica Ahti & Brodo
- Cladonia novochlorophaea (Sipman) Brodo & Ahti
- Cladonia schofieldii Ahti & Brodo
- Coccotrema maritimum Brodo
- Coccotrema pocillarium (Cummings) Brodo
- Fuscidea thomsonii Brodo & Wirth
- Lecanora albella var. rubescens (Imshaug & Brodo) Lumbsch
- Lecanora caesiorubella subsp. glaucomodes (Nyl.) Imshaug & Brodo
- Lecanora caesiorubella subsp. merrillii Imshaug & Brodo
- Lecanora caesiorubella subsp. saximontana Imshaug & Brodo
- Lecanora californica Brodo
- Lecanora cinereofusca var. appalachensis Brodo
- Lecanora circumborealis Brodo & Vitik.
- Lecanora hybocarpa (Tuck.) Brodo
- Lecanora imshaugii Brodo
- Lecanora luteovernalis Brodo
- Lecanora opiniconensis Brodo
- Lecanora perplexa Brodo
- Loxospora pustulata (Brodo & Culb.) R. C. Harris
- Loxosporopsis corallifera Brodo, Henssen & Imshaug
- Megalaria corallifera Brodo, Henssen & Imshaug
- NodobryoriaNodobryoriaNodobryoria is a genus of medium to large, reddish-brown lichens that are hair-like to shrubby in shape and grow on conifer trees. The genus contains three species, distributed in North America and Greenland, which were previously included in the genus Bryoria...
Common & Brodo - Nodobryoria abbreviata (Müll. Arg.) Common & Brodo
- Nodobryoria oregana (Tuck.) Common & Brodo
- Nodobryoria subdivergens (E. Dahl) Common & Brodo
- Ochrolechia antillarum Brodo
- Ochrolechia gowardii Brodo
- Ochrolechia juvenalis Brodo
- Ochrolechia laevigata (Räsänen) Vers. ex Brodo
- Ochrolechia montana Brodo
- Ochrolechia pseudopallescens Brodo
- Ochrolechia rhodoleuca (Th. Fr.) Brodo
- Ochrolechia subisidiata Brodo
- Ochrolechia subplicans (Nyl.) Brodo subsp. subplicans
- Ochrolechia subplicans subsp. hultenii (Erichsen) Brodo
- Ochrolechia trochophora var. pruinirosella Brodo
- Pertusaria geminipara (Th. Fr.) C. Knight ex Brodo
- Pertusaria suboculata Brodo & Dibben
- Pertusaria subpertusa Brodo
- Placopsis roseonigra Brodo
- Polysporina urceolata (Anzi) Brodo
- Porina pacifica Brodo
- Porpidia ochrolemma (Vainio) Brodo & R. Sant.
- Pseudophebe minuscula (Nyl. ex Arnold) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Pseudocyphellaria anomala Brodo & Ahti
- Rhizocarpon hensseniae Brodo
- Sulcaria badia Brodo & D. Hawksw.
- Sulcaria isidiifera Brodo
- Thelotrema petractoides P. M. Jørg. & Brodo
List of lichens named in honor of Irwin Brodo
- Bactrospora brodoi Egea & Torrente
- Brodoa oroarctica (Krog) Goward
- Bryoria trichodes subsp. brodoana Bystr. & Fabiszewski
- Lecanora brodoana Lumbsch & T. Nash
- Lecidea brodoana Hertel & Leuckert