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Adawadkar, B. & U. Makhija. 2006. New species and new records of Graphis from India: transseptate species with completely carbonized exciples and norstictic acid. Mycotaxon 96: 51–60. [Treatment of 10 spp.; key. New: G. albidofarinacea, G. cinnamomea, G. colliculoides, G. kollaimalaiensis, G. nirgocarpa, G. verruciformis and G. nilgiriensis spp. nov. All spp. are reported from Tamil Nadu except G. verruciformis (Kerala).] Aho, K. & T. Weaver. 2006. Measuring water relations and pH of cryptogam rock-surface environments. The Bryologist 109(3): 348–357. [‘‘ ... we devised and tested methods for measuring absorption of liquid and atmospheric water, water retention and pH of rock surfaces. To adjust these measurements to cryptogam-relevant units we also developed an inexpensive method for determining rock surface area ....’’ Field studies were done on volcanic (andesitic) and limestone rocks in Yellowstone National Park.] Alstrup, V. & S. N. Christensen. 2006. New records of lichens with cyanobacteria from Tanzania and Kenya. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 27(1): 57–68. [Reports on 62 taxa. New to Africa: Fuscopannaria leucosticta (Tanzania) and Leptogium rivulare (Tanzania). New to East Africa: Collema subnigrescens, Parmeliella triptophylla and Polychidium dendriscum. Ten taxa new to Tanzania.] Appel, P. W. U., N. Abrahamsen & T. M. Rasmussen. 2006. Unusual features caused by lightning impact in West Greenland. Geological Magazine 143(5): 737–741. [Lightning strike on metacherts burned away all lichens and other plants for several meters.] Aptroot, A., V. John & V. Wirth. 2006. Flechten und lichenicole Pilze im Dreilandereck bei der Saarschleife mit Neufunden aus Lothringen, Saarland und Rheinland-Pfalz (BLAMExkursion 2005). Herzogia 19: 63–76. [Report on field excursion of BLAM in France and Germany in 2005. New to France: Bacidia neosquamulosa and Caloplaca britannica. New to Germany: Chaenothecopsis epithallina. Twenty taxa are reported for the first time from Saarland and 3 for Rhineland-Pflaz.] ——— & L. B. Sparrius. 2006. Additions to the lichen flora of Vietnam, with an annotated checklist and bibliography. The Bryologist 109(3): 358–371. [‘‘The total lichen flora to date comprises 275 species, 122 of which are reported here from Vietnam for the first time.’’] Archer, A. W. 2006. Additional lichen records from Australia 60. Sclerophyton elegans Eschw. Australasian Lichenology 59: 19. [First report is from Queensland.] ———. 2006. The lichen family Graphidaceae in Australia. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 94: 1–191. [Monographic treatment of 129 taxa in 16 genera; keys. Several taxa are listed as new synonyms. New: Platygramme mucronata (Stirt.) comb. nov.] Arvidsson, L. & S. Hultengren. 2005. Svenska landskapslavara. Naturcentrum AB, Stenungsund. 62 pp. [Beautiful popular book highlighting one special lichen species from each of Sweden’s 25 provinces with gorgeous color photographs and distribution maps. Available from Naturcentrum AB, Strandtorget 3, 444 30 Stenungsund, Sweden. Price 15 € or US$19.00 þ postage. E-mail ncab@naturcentrum.se.] Atienza, V. & J. G. Segarra-Moragues. 2006. Evaluation of the conservation status of threatened lichens list from coastal areas of the Valencian Community (eastern Spain). Cryptogamie, Mycologie 27(2): 167–183. [Discussion of 11 threatened taxa. Survey documented numbers of individuals and included cover estimates. ‘‘Most of the threats found are due to human activity in the form of urbanism and fires. With this in mind, the IUCN categories and criteria were reassigned to the lichen species.’’] Backor, M., B. Pawlik-Skowronska, J. Tomko, J. Bud’ova & L. Sanita di Toppi. 2006. Response to copper stress in aposymbiotically grown lichen mycobiont Cladonia cristatella: uptake, viability, ergosterol and production on nonprotein thiols. Mycological Research 110(8): 994–999. [Cultured mycobiont showed increased Cu uptake corre* The cumulative database for this series is available in searchable form on the World Wide Web at http://www.nhm.uio.no/botanisk/ bot-mus/lav/sok_rll.htm. I owe special thanks to Bill Buck for providing copies of papers by other authors, which were otherwise unavailable to me, and to the cooperating authors who send reprints or electronic versions of their works to me for inclusion in this series.