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O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R occasions, it was confirmed that the book “Plant Landscapes of the Mediterranean” was to be published commercially. Prof. Heywood, who undertook contact publishers such as Oxford University Press, received a detailed list of contents and synopsis of the book from the Commission Secretary, as well as a description of the rationale behind the book, a list of contributors, expected target groups and estimated numbers of buyers. At the 2004 Meeting in Belgrade, highlights or extracts of some chapters were presented in the frame of the symposium “Landscape Ecology of the Mediterranean”. By then most of the chapters had been revised, but those on “cultivated landscapes”, Sicily, the Balkan Peninsula and Lebanon-Syria were still in preparation. A translator was needed to translate into English three chapters submitted in French (on North Africa, France, and Corsica). Later on, authors would be approached with a request to provide photographs and maps. By the 2007 meeting in Pisa, little progress, if any, could be noted. Heywood’s contacts with prospective publishers had been unsuccessful so far. Publication by OPTIMA, perhaps through the Herbarium Mediterraneum and with help from the Publications Commission, is the best available option. The Committee’s preference is for a book in DIN-B5 overall size, with a print layout of 11.8 x 19 cm and a Times New Roman 11.5 points font for the general text and 10 points for indices, footnotes and literature cited. Plans for future books (Red Book of Mediterranean plants, Orchids of the Mediterranean) will have to wait till after the present one is completed. COMMISSION ON BRYOPHYTES Secretary: R. M. Ros, Murcia Members: M. Aleffi, Camerino T. Blockeel, Sheffield W. El-Sayed El-Saadawi, Cairo Adnan Erdag, Aydin A. Ganeva, Sofia I. Herrnstadt, Jerusalem H. Kürschner, Berlin V. Mazimpaka, Madrid M. Sabovljević, Beograd C. Sérgio, Lisboa 2004. This Commission held a virtual meeting in July 2004 via e-mail, as the majority of its members were unable to attend the Meeting in Belgrade. 2006-2007. During that period, the main activity of the Bryophyte Commission has been the preparation of a manuscript entitled “Hepatics and Anthocerotes of the Mediterranean. An annotated checklist”, edited by Rosa María Ros (the Commission’s Secretary) and Vicente Mazimpaka. A total of 26 authors from 18 research centers contributed, representing 14 Mediterranean and non- Mediterranean countries. The names of all hepatics and anthocerotes published up to the end of May 2007 and occurring in the Mediterranean countries plus Bulgaria, were compiled in an annotated, synonymic checklist of 403 accepted species and 12 infraspecific taxa, with critical notes on ambiguous and disputed names. By the time when the Commission met in Pisa, that checklist had been published in the journal “Cryptogamie, Bryologie”. The main difficulties encountered were the establishment of the current taxonomic identity of many old names in Mediterranean literature, the accurate assessment of the authors of many such old names, and the lack of literature on hepatic names and of regional lists. Also, upon request of the editor of the Bryological Times, a report on the Bryophyte Commission was prepared by the Secretary (published in Bryological Times 122: 6. 2007), so as to inform bryologists worldwide on the Commission’s aims, composition, and activities. The goals of the Commission for the six– year period 2007-2013 will be: (a) to prepare a check-list of Mediterranean mosses; (b) to meet in three years’ time, either at a Symposium within the XIII OPTIMA Meeting or at a workshop organised by the Commission, to include both field work 18 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 May 2009
O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R and presentation of papers; (c) to begin with the preparatioin of the Red Data Book of Mediterranean bryophytes. Bryological excursions are being organised, taking into account the former offers of Marko Sabovljevic for field work in ex-Yugoslavia and of Tom Blockeel for Greece. Funds are being sought to organise bryological courses on problematic genera. The Commission Secretary, assisted by members, is compiling a list of recent bryophyte literature. The Commission stands ready to participate, for bryology, in the organisation of an OP- TIMA meeting devoted exclusively to Cryptogams, as proposed by the OPTIMA Commission for Fungi, to which the Lichens Commission is also invited. It suggests the following topics as being of common interest to specialists of the various groups: Biodiversity and Conservation; Taxonomy; Databases; Inventorying and mapping; phylogeny and phylogeography. For additional information, contact R. M. Ros (mros@um.es). COMMISSION ON FUNGI Chair: S. Onofri, Viterbo Secretary: G. Venturella, Palermo Members: C. Denčev, Sofia D. L. Hawksworth, Madrid B. Ivančević D. Minter, U.K. J. Mouchacca, Paris 2004. A checklist of Italian Basidiomycetes (“Check-list dei funghi italiani - Parte I - Basidiomycetes”) was prepared, with the financial support of the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Instruction, University and Research. It includes accepted names, nomenclatural references, synonymy, critical notes, indication of endemic or exotic status, rarity, legal protection, distribution by regions, and pertinent bibliography. It was published in 2005 by the publisher Carlo Delfino, with funding by the Italian Botanical Society and the University of Tuscia. The 384-pages volume contains a list of 4198 fungal taxa. At a forum of Mediterranean mycology held in Palermo, the need for a working group of Mediterranean mycologists was recognised. Thus, one of the objectives of the Fungi Commission was to consolidate the different groups of Mediterranean mycologists working in parallel. Promoting a meeting or round table discussion on Mediterranean mycology was envisaged. A new international journal on mycology entitled "Mycologia Balkanica" has been created, with the participation of OPTIMA member Cvetomir Denčev from Bulgaria. Volume 2(1) of that journal corresponds to the “Catalogue of the lichenized and lichenicolous fungi of Bulgaria”; it was published in February 2005. 2007. The Commission met in Pisa, where several new members were appointed. It supported the idea of organising an OPTIMA meeting on fungi and, subject to participation of the other avascular plants’ Committees, lichens and bryophytes. Such a meeting might take place in Montpellier in autumn 2009. It could have a common theme of relevance to all major groups, such as Conservation and Biodiversity, and could be organised jointly with other (e.g. national) mycological or phytopathological associations. The Commission will work toward a Mediterranean Checklist of Fungi (for which the Italian Checklist constitutes the starting point) and intends to create a database of Mediterranean mycological literature, to be made available on-line. COMMISSION ON MEDITERRANEAN HERBARIA Chair: M. Fennane, Rabat Secretary: G. Domina, Palermo Members: D. Jeanmonod, Geneva J. Mathez, Montpellier J. Molina, Montpellier J. M. Montserrat, Barcelona P. A. Schäfer, Montpellier E. Vitek, Wien R. Vogt, Berlin May 2009 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 19
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