Festschrift to Wolfgang Frey - a Scientist's Life Between 'Deserts' and 'Rain Forests'

About this book

This volume is dedicated to Professor Wolfgang Frey to commemorate his formal retirement from The Freie Universität Berlin. It reflects his wide range of research interest, spanning from bryophytes (systematics, morphology, phytosociology, phytogeography, ecology, dispersal and distribution) to vascular plant geobotany. The volume includes contributions from the following fields: morphology-based and molecular-based taxonomy, phytosociology, life-strategy and dispersal of bryophytes, clonal reproduction and population structure of phanerophytes, ecology, physiology and vegetation. Most of the papers have been written by colleagues, former scholars and friends to honour his scientific and academic career.

Contents

- Kürschner, H.: A tribute to Wolfgang Frey   V
- Goffinet, B., W. R. Buck & M. A. Wall: Orthotrichum freyanum (Orthotrichaceae), a new epiphytic moss from Chile   1
- Hässel de Menéndez, G. & C. Villagrán: New species of Fossombronia (Hepatophyta, Fossombroniopsida) from Chile   13
- Quandt, D., N. Bell & M. Stech: Unravelling the knot: the Pulchrinodaceae, fam. nov. (Bryales)   21
- Crandall-Stotler, B. J. & R. E. Stotler: On the identity of Moerckia hibernica (Hook.) Gottsche (Moerckiaceae fam. nov., Marchantiophyta)   41
- Ochyra, R.: Pleurogonium Wilson, a forgotten generic name for a bryalean moss   61
- Ros, R. M. & O. Werner: The circumscription of the genus Pottiopsis (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) based on morphology and molecular sequence data   65
- Fischer, E.: The genera Anthoceros, Phaeoceros and Notothylas (Anthocerotopsida) in Rwanda   81
- Stech, M., M. Sim-Sim & J.-P. Frahm: Campylopus (Leucobryaceae, Bryopsida) on Madeira Island - Molecular relationships and biogeographic affinities   91
- Pócs, T.: Bryophyte communities at the edge of Tunisian Sahara with the description of Gymnostomum viridulum Brid. subsp. saharae, subsp. nov. (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta)   101
- Kürschner, H. & G. Parolly: Life forms and life strategies in tropical trunk-epiphytic bryophytes - a case study from Ecuador   121
- During, H. J.: Relations between clonal growth, reproduction and breeding system in the bryophytes of Belgium and The Netherlands   133
- Heinken, T., M.-S. Rohner & M. Hoppert: Red wood ants (Formica rufa group) disperse bryophyte and lichen fragments on a local scale   147
- Lieske, K. & T. Pfeiffer: May lily’s multiplication: morpho-ecological and molecular analyses in a patch of Maianthemum bifolium (Convallariaceae)   165
- Hensen, I. & K. Wesche: Genetic structure of the rare Poa badensis (Poaceae) in central Germany   177
- Deil, U.: Habitat shift as a successful strategy - an analysis based upon Phonus riphaeus (Compositae) and closely related taxa   187
- Bergmeier, E. & S. Abrahamczyk: Ecology and distribution of the Aegean wetland endemics Carex cretica and Lathyrus neurolobus   207
- Lösch, R., U. Biron, T. Patrias & B. Höptner: Gas exchange and water relations of Asplenium ferns growing on limestone rocks   221
- Porembski, S.: Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on the vegetation of granitic and gneissic rock outcrops (‘inselbergs’) in West Africa   237
- König, P.: Soil and vegetation studies in coastal halophytic communities of Oman   247
- Akhani, H. & M. Ghasemkhani: Diversity of photosynthetic organs in Chenopodiaceae from Golestan National Park (NE Iran) based on carbon isotype composition and anatomy of leaves and cotyledons   265

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