Bryophyte Locality Data From the Near and Middle East 1775-2019 Vol. 4

Harald KURSCHNER · Adnan ERDAĞ

Jul 2021 · Hiperlink Eğitim İletişim Yayın Gıda Sanayi ve Pazarlama Tic. Ltd. Şti.

About this eBook

With the fourth volume of 'Bryophyte locality data from the Near and Middle East' (Gigaspermaceae till Mniaceae ; families in alphabetical order), consequently all published data of mosses between are presented to provide ‒ in addition to volume 3 (Bruchiaceae till Funariaceae) ‒ a complete data base and background for the whole area. Starting with the beginning of the collection activities (e.g., Forsskål 1775) it covers the whole period till the end of 2019 and is the first comprehensive catalogue for these organisms including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sinai Peninsula, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen (incl. Socotra).

With the fourth volume, the catalogue of 'Bryophyte locality data from the Near and Middle East' allows an easy access to what is recorded and known from the different countries of the Near and Middle East.

About the author

Born in Chemnitz, Germany (26 December 1950). His academic life started at the University of Tübingen with a master degree on the bryophyte vegetation of Northern Iran (1978), followed by a doctoral thesis (1980) on the high mountain vegetation in southeast and central Anatolia (Erciyes and Aladaglar Mts.). He worked as a researcher at Tübingen University from 1978 to 1984. In 1984, he moved to the Freie Universität Berlin, where he served as “Akademischer Rat” till 1993, and since this time as “Akademischer Oberrat”. In 2006, he was appointed Professor, a position he hold until 2016 (retirement)

During his academic life, he especially focused on flora and vegetation of the Near and Middle East and Central Asia. Additionally, he conducted important scientific projects on taxonomy and systematics, phytosociology, life strategies and ecomorphological adaptations of bryophytes especially from the Tropics (Borneo, Congo, Ecuador, Peru, Rwanda), Old World deserts (including China/Inner Mongolia, Egypt/Sinai, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Yemen/Socotra), and Europe (Canary Islands, Crete, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Madeira). He is still actively working especially on bryophytes of Turkey and other parts of the world.

Born in Turgutlu/Manisa, Turkey in 1966. He held Master of Science (Moss flora of Spil Mountain, 1991) and PhD (Moss flora and vegetation of Kaz Mountain, 1995) degrees from Ege University. In 1996, Aydın Adnan Menderes University accepted him as a university lecturer in botany.He was appointed as Associate Professor in 2004 and Professor in 2009 at the same institution. He is still working as Professor in Aydın Adnan Menderes University.

During his academic life he focused on Turkish bryophytes (floristically and ecologically) as a relatively neglected scientific field of Turkish botany. He conducted and published a number of projects and studies with Dr. Kürschner and other colleagues in the last 25 years on Mediterranean, Turkish and Middle East bryophytes. He is continuing study on Turkish and Middle East bryophyte taxonomy and ecology.