Tropical Lichens: Their Systematics, Conservation, and Ecology

Tropical lichenology is just beginning to achieve the status of a coherent subject, and a conference drawing the widely dispersed lichenologists together was a very timely action. * D.H. Brown, 1991 Annals of Botany Company * 18 contributions are included in these well edited proceedings, covering many aspects of the lichen biology of tropical America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific ... A wider availability of this valuable book in the libraries of higher education institutions in the tropics would enhance the possibility of more studies of tropical lichens being undertaken by local scientists in the future. * Mien A. Rifai, Herbarium Bogoriense, Puslitbang Biologi - LIPI, Bogor, Indonesia * The volume provides an overview of the current status of tropical lichenology, and identifies many problem areas.