James D. Lawrey

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James Donald Lawrey
Born(1949-12-15)December 15, 1949
Arlington, Virginia, USA
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of South Dakota
Alma materOhio State University
AwardsAcharius Medal
Scientific career
Fieldslichenology
InstitutionsGeorge Mason University, USA
Doctoral advisorsEmanuel Rudolph
Author abbrev. (botany)Lawrey

James Donald Lawrey is a biologist, specialising in

lichens. He is known for leading long-term monitoring projects, taxonomy and studies of the evolution of the fungi in lichens.[1]

Early life and education

After growing up in Rockville, Maryland, James (Jim) Donald Lawrey attended the University of South Dakota and was awarded a master's degree in biology in 1973. He gained his doctorate from Ohio State University in 1977 working on the plant, lichen and fungal communities in an abandoned coal mine, supervised by Emanuel Rudolph.[2]

Career

After the award of his doctorate in 1977, he was immediately employed by George Mason University and was promoted to full professor in 1993 where he remained throughout his career.[2][3][1]

The focus of his research is fungal diversity and ecology and he particularly makes use of

lichens and the fungi that form part of them. His work has provided new insight into the basidiolichens, focusing on the Dictyonema clade.[4]
[5][3] From the 1970s he has been part of programmes to monitor lichens in natural environments, initially collaborating with Mason Hale on a long-term programme at Plummers Island in the Potomac River, Maryland and then working with the National Park Service at other sites within their remit.[1] During the 1990s he worked extensively on the role of the secondary metabolites synthesised by the fungi within lichens, especially as mechanisms of defence.[3]

Honours and awards

In 2015 he became a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2021 he was awarded the Acharius Medal by the International Association for Lichenology for his outstanding lifetime achievements with lichens. Lawrey has been President of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society and the Washington Biologists Field Club (1996–1999), associate editor of The Lichenologist and senior editor of The Bryologist.[3]

The genus of lichenicolous fungi Lawreymyces Lücking & Moncada has been named in his honour,[6] as has the lichen species Parmotrema lawreyi Bungartz & Spielmann.[7]

Publications

Lawrey is the author or co-author of at least a hundred scientific papers and book chapters as well as a book about the fungi of lichens. His most significant include:

  • Diederich, P., J. D. Lawrey & D. Ertz. 2018. The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa. The Bryologist 121: 340-425.
  • Lücking, R., M. Dal-Forno, M. Sikaroodi, P. M. Gillevet, F. Bungartz, B. Moncada, A. Yánez-Ayabaca, J. L. Chaves, L. F. Coca & J. D. Lawrey. 2014. A single macrolichen constitutes hundreds of unrecognized species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 111: 11091-11096.
  • James Lawrey (1984) Biology of Lichenized Fungi Praeger 418pp
    ISBN 978 0275912116

By 2019 Lawrey had established two new orders of lichens (Lichenoconiales Diederich, Lawrey & K.D. Hyde and

Lepidostromataceae Ertz, Eb. Fisch., Killmann, Sérusiaux, & Lawrey and Lichenoconiaceae Diederich & Lawrey), eight new genera, and 37 species.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Lawrey is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2478/pfs-2019-0014
    . Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  2. ^
    doi:10.2478/pfs-2019-0013
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  3. ^ a b c d "Acharius Medallists James D. Lawr". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  4. ^ "James Lawrey". George Mason University. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Lawrey Lab". George Mason University. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  6. S2CID 256066054
    .
  7. S2CID 210075798. Open access icon
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Lawrey.
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