Commission on Bryophytes (2007-2013)

Secretary:        R. M. Ros, Murcia

Members:         M. Aleffi, Camerino
                       T. Blockeel, Sheffield
                       W. El-Sayed El-Saadawi, Cairo
                       Adnan Erdag, Aydin
                       A. Ganeva, Sofia
                       I. Herrnstadt, Jerusalem
                       H. Kürschner, Berlin
                       V. Mazimpaka, Madrid
                       M. Sabovljević, Beograd
                       C. Sérgio, Lisboa

2007. On 14th September 2007 the members of this commission attended to a dedicated meeting during the XII OPTIMA Meeting in Pisa. Here it is possible to download the Report of this meeting. The Checklist of the Hepatics of the Mediterranean Area has been published and the Commission firmly consider its most important task to carry out the Checklist of the mosses of the Mediterranean Area.

During the same day the 9th Symposium of the OPTIMA meeting was dedicated to Bryofloristics and Bryotaxonomy here it is possible to download the Abstracts of the lectures and some of the posters (1, 2, 3) presented.

2004. This Commission held a virtual meeting in July 2004 via e-mail as the majority of its members were unable to attend the meeting in Belgrade . With regard to the hepatic and moss checklists, work will be continued during the next three years.  A bryological excursion will be organised by Marko Sabovljevic to an interesting region of the ex-Yugoslavia within 1-2 years. Tom Blockeel will organise another excursion to Greece within 3-4 years. The Secretary of the Commission will seek funds in order to organise bryological courses on problematic genera. Lastly, the bryologists participating in this Commission were requested to send the Secretary a list of their published papers by the end of the year in order to start compiling recent bryophyte literature.

This page last updated 22 October, 2007.