National Park Lichens (NPLichen): a database of lichens in U.S. National Parks
Bennett JP and Wetmore CM. National Park Lichens (NPLichen): a database of lichens in U.S. National Parks. U.S. Geological Survey
Database contains over 29,000 records of documented occurrences of lichens in NPS units. The records were obtained from the scientific literature, from National Park Service reports, and from the University of Minnesota Herbarium. Unpublished herbarium records from other herbaria are not included because they cannot be cited. Over 530 references reporting over 2650 lichen species from 153 park units are included. Only parks with reported lichens are included in the database. We have been unable to locate lichen references for other parks in the National Park system. All lichen names were standardized to Version 13 (2008) of Esslinger's Checklist of North American Lichens.
- Type
- Generic Dataset
- Authors
- Bennett, James; Wetmore, Clifford
- Publisher
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Units
- AKR , IMRO , MWR , NCR , NER , PWR , SER
- Keywords
- Checklist, Database, Database, Esslinger, Lichen