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Aguilar, A. J., E. Huber-Sannwald, J. Belnap, D. R. Smart & J. T. A. Moreno. 2009. Biological soil crusts exhibit a dynamic response to seasonal rain and release from grazing with implications for soil stability. Journal of Arid Environments 73(12): 1158–1169. [Study conducted in northern Mexico with respect to moisture, grazing and soil erosion. ‘‘Lichen and cyanobacteria morphotypes differentially enhanced resistance to soil erosion ....’’] Altemoller, M., T. Gehring, J. Cudaj, J. Podlech, H. Goesmann, C. Feldmann & A. Rothenberger. 2009. Total synthesis of graphislactones A, C, D, and H, of ulocladol, and of the originally proposed and revised structures of graphislactones E and F. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2009: 2130–2140. [This class of compounds was first isolated from species of Graphis and later from other fungi; some are antioxidants or enzyme inhibitors.] Amo de Paz, G. 2009. Environmental factors and diversity of epiphytic communities on the trunks of the Mediterranean beech forest in Hayedo de Montejo (Madrid, Spain). Cryptogamie, Mycologie 30(1): 85–97. [Study of 32 releves and 76 lichen species. ‘‘There are big microclimatic differences between the exposures in the epiphytic habitats and the different location into the forest, which is reflected in the composition and cover of the epiphytic lichen species.’’] Aptroot, A. 2009. The lichen genus Traponora. Pages 21–30. In A. Thell, M. R. D. Seaward & T. Feuerer (eds.), Diversity of Lichenology — Anniversary Volume. Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 100. J. Cramer in der Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin and Stuttgart. [Treatment of 5 species; key. New: Traponora fusca sp. nov. (Taiwan, Philippines), T. globosa sp. nov. (Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Brazil, Philippines, Madagascar), T. macrospora sp. nov. (Papua New Guinea) and T. pallida sp. nov. (Papua New Guinea).] Archer, A. W. 2009. Platythecium nothofagi (A. W. Archer) A. W. Archer, a new combination in the Australian Graphidaceae. Australasian Lichenology 65: 40–41. [New: Platythecium nothofagi (A. W. Archer) comb. nov. (formerly placed in Diorygma and Graphina).] ——— & J. A. Elix. 2009. A new species, new combination, and new report in the Australian Graphidaceae. Australasian Lichenology 65: 24–29. [New: Phaeographis neotriconica sp. nov. (Northern Territory) with notes on Acanthothecis abaphoides (Nyl.) Staiger & Kalb. Also new: Diorygma australasicum (Elix) Lucking, Elix & A. W. Archer comb. nov. (formerly placed in Leprocaulon).] ——— & ———. 2009. New taxa and new reports of Australian Pertusaria (lichenized Ascomycota, Pertusariaceae). Australasian Lichenology 65: 30–39. [New: Pertusaria albopunctata comb. nov., P. alectoronica var. thiophanica Elix & A. W. Archer var. nov. (Tasmania), P. georgeana var. methylstenosporonica var. nov. (New South Wales), P. georgeana var. occidentalis Elix & A. W. Archer var. nov. (Western Australia), P. minispora sp. nov. (Victoria), P. tjaetabensis sp. nov. (Northern Territory), and P. malmei Elix & A. W. Archer nom. nov. (5 P. quassuae var. sordida).] Arnold, A. E., J. Miadlikowska, K. L. Higgins, S. D. Sarvate, P. Gugger, A. Way, V. Hofstetter, F. Kauff & F. Lutzoni. 2009. A phylogenetic estimation of trophic transition networks for ascomycetous fungi: are lichens cradles of symbiotrophic fungal diversification? Systematic Biology 1 Corresponding author e-mail: regan@unomaha.edu 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. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-113.1.192