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Abed, R. M. M., A. M. Al-Sadi, M. Al-Shehi, S. Al-Hinai & M. D. Robinson. 2013. Diversity of free-living and lichenized fungal communities in biological soil crusts of the Sultanate of Oman and their role in improving soil properties. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57: 695–705. Abollino, O., M. Malandrino, I. Zelano, A. Giacomino, S. Buoso & E. Mentasti. 2012. Characterization of the element content in lacustrine ecosystems in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. Microchemical Journal 105: 142–151. Adams, M. D. & C. Gottardo. 2012. Measuring lichen specimen characteristics for trace element biomonitoring to reduce relative local uncertainties. Atmospheric Pollution Research 3(3): 325–330. Achotegui-Castells, A., J. Sardans, A. Ribas & J. Penuelas. 2013. Identifying the origin of atmospheric inputs of trace elements in the Prades Mountains (Catalonia) with bryophytes, lichens, and soil monitoring. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 185(1): 615–629. Ahti, T. & S. Stenroos. 2012. New data on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution of some species of the lichen genus Cladonia. Botanica Complutensis 36: 31–34. Anderson, F. & T. H. Neily. 2012. New and noteworthy macrolichen records for Nova Scotia. Evansia 29(1): 1–3. Andreas, B. & R. Showman. 2012. OMLA 2012 Summer Forray– Fayette County. OBELISK 9(1): 2–4. Andreas, B. 2012. 2012 Fall Forray. Monroe County, Ohio: OBELISK, 9(1): 10–14. Angelica Casanova-Katny, M. & L. A. Cavieres. 2012. Antarctic moss carpets facilitate growth of Deschampsia antarctica but not its survival. Polar Biology 35(12): 1869–1878. Arvidsson, L., S. Hultengren & U. Larsson. 2012. Mangfruktig silverlav Parmelina quercina en for Sverige ny bladlav [Parmelina quercina new to Sweden]. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 106(5): 214–216. [In Swedish with English abstract.] Aslan, A., M. Gulluce, G. Agar, M. Karadayi, S. Bozari & F. Orhan. 2012. Mutagenic and antimutagenic properties of some lichen species grown in the eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Cytology and Genetics 46(5): 291–296. Asplund, J., A. Sandling & D. A. Wardle. 2012. Lichen specific thallus mass and secondary compounds change across a retrogressive firedriven chronosequence. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49081. Bąbelewska, A. 2012. Porosty rezerwatu Kaliszak (Wyz_yna KrakowskoCzestochowska) [Lichens of the Kaliszak Nature Reserve (Wyz_yna Krakowsko-Czestochowska)]. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Polonica 19(1): 153–159. [In Polish.] Bauer, J., B. Waltenberger, S. M. Noha, D. Schuster, J. M. Rollinger, J. Boustie, M. Chollet, H. Stuppner & O. Werz. 2012. Discovery of depsides and depsidones from lichen as potent inhibitors of microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase-1 using pharmacophore models. ChemMedChem 7(12): 2077–2081. Bessadottir, M., M. Egilsson, E. Einarsdottir, I. H. Magnusdottir, M. H. Ogmundsdottir, S. Omarsdottir & H. M. Ogmundsdottir. 2012. Proton-shuttling lichen compound usnic acid affects mitochondrial and lysosomal function in cancer cells. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51296. Blum, J. D., M. W. Johnson, J. D. Gleason, J. D. Demers, M. S. Landis & S. Krupa. 2012. Mercury concentration and isotopic composition of epiphytic tree lichens in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Developments in Environmental Science 11: 373–390. Bowker, M. A. & F. T. Maestre. 2012. Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: A test using biological soil crusts. Oikos 121(11): 1914–1922. Breuss, O. 2012. A European record of Verrucaria marinomuralis (lichenised Ascomycetes, Verrucariales). Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Pilzkunde (Austrian Journal of Mycology) 21: 1–3. Breuss, O. & F. Berger. 2012. Validation of Verrucaria finitima and comments on the group of Verrucaria tristis (lichenised Ascomycetes, Verrucariaceae). Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Pilzkunde 21: 117–126. [In German, with English abstract and diagnosis; new species: Verrucaria finitima Breuss & F. Berger.] Burgaz, A. R. & R. Pino-Bodas. 2012. Notes on species of the genus Cladonia from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Botanica Complutensis 36: 13–18. Cameron, R. P. & S. Bondrup-Nielsen. 2012. Coral lichen (Sphaerophorus globosus (Huds.) Vain) as an indicator of coniferous old-growth forest in Nova Scotia. Northeastern Naturalist 19(4): 535–540. Canha, N., M. C. Freitas & A. M. G. Pacheco. 2013. Response of airpollution biomonitors under three different meteorological conditions. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 295(1): 489–496. 3 Corresponding author’s e-mail: brendan.hodkinson@gmail.com The cumulative database for this series is available in searchable form on the World Wide Web at http://nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/ lav/RLL/RLL.HTM with full abstracts of electronically available articles. We owe thanks to the following: Einar Timdal for his work on the RLL database, Bill Buck for highlighting the more obscure sources, Jim Bennett for sharing his Scopus alerts, and the authors who send reprints or electronic versions of their works to us for inclusion. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-116.2.213