Thomas Hawkes Nash III

Thomas Hawkes Nash III (born November 13, 1945) is an American

Shortly after graduation, he accepted an assistant professorship from Arizona State University in Tempe, where he has spent much of his scientific career. He was promoted to associate professor of botany in 1976, and became a full professor with this institution in 1981. He taught courses in ecology, lichenology, statistics, and, on one occasion, bryology. Nash retired from Arizona State University in 2010.^[1] For thirty years Nash and his students investigated Southern California's lichen communities and used them as biomonitors of air quality in the Los Angeles air basin.^[4] After his retirement, Nash volunteered with the Wisconsin State Herbarium at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[5]

Nash has developed a collection of over 110,000 lichen samples for the Arizona State University herbarium, for which he was the curator;^[6] about 40,000 of these were collected by Nash himself during his nearly four decades at Arizona State University.^[2] The collection features about 450 type specimens, and is represented by about 5,500 different species – about one-quarter of the known lichen species in the world.^[1] It is among the ten largest collections of lichens in the United States.^[2] His research is largely focused on the biology of lichens and the effects of air pollution on plants. He uses an interdisciplinary approach to research, and the topics of his research publications include ecophysiology, ecology, taxonomy, floristics, and biomonitoring.^[7] He developed an interest in lichen physiology after working for a while with Otto Ludwig Lange at the University of Würzburg. Nash's interest in taxonomy developed with his work on the flora of the southwestern United States, and he is considered a leading expert in the family Parmeliaceae, particularly the genera Hypotrachyna and Xanthoparmelia.^[1]

Major works by Nash include a revision of Xanthoparmelia species in South America, a monograph on Hypotrachyna for the journal Flora Neotropica, and a three-volume set on the lichen flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert.^[1][8] The latter project, funded by the National Science Foundation, was a large collaborative work involving more than 90 scientists from 23 countries.^[6][7] Taking almost 18 years to complete, much of the effort was taken up through numerous field trips to hundreds of localities throughout the region. As a result, this work, which covers almost 2,000 species – about 40% of the lichens known in North America – is considered an "authoritative taxonomic treatment" that "profoundly increased the understanding of the lichen biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert and surrounding environs".^[1] These collecting expeditions resulted in the discovery of about 175 species new to science.^[2]

In 2008, Nash was the

Xanthoparmelia nashii Elix & J.Johnst. (1986);^[13] Tephromela nashii Kalb (1991); Lecanactis nashii Egea & Torrente (1992);^[14] Physcia nashii Moberg (1997); Usnea nashii P.Clerc & Herrera-Camp. (1997);^[15] Evicentia nashii Barreno (2000); Harpidium nashii Scheid. (2000);^[16] Caloplaca nashii Nav.-Ros., Gaya & Hladún (2001); Cladonia nashii Ahti (2002); Plectocarpon nashii Hafellner (2002);^[17] Toninia nashii Timdal (2002); Fusicladium nashicola K.Schub. & U.Braun (2003);^[18] Gyalectidium nashii Herrera-Camp. & Lücking (2003);^[19] Phaeophyscia nashii Essl. (2004); Buellia nashii Bungartz (2004); Fellhanera nashii van den Boom (2004); Lecanora nashii B.D.Ryan (2004); Lecidella nashiana Knoph & Leuckert (2004); Sticta nashii D.J.Galloway (2004); Aspicilia nashii Owe-Larss. & A.Nordin (2007); Tremella nashii Diederich (2007);^[20] Acarospora nashii K.Knudsen (2011);^[21] Buellia tomnashiana Giralt & van den Boom (2011);^[22] Caloplaca tomnashii S.Y.Kondr., Elix & Kärnefelt 2011);^[23] Bulbothrix thomasiana Benatti & Marcelli (2011);^[24] Niebla nashii Sipman (2011);^[25] Canoparmelia nashii Jungbluth & Marcelli (2011);^[24] Punctelia nashii Marcelli & Canêz (2011);^[24] Lobariella nashii Moncada & Lücking (2013).^[26] The genus Trinathotrema Lücking, Rivas Plata & Mangold (2011) (family Stictidaceae) also honors Nash; it is constructed from parts of his name: tho from Thomas, na from Nash and tri referring to III.^[27] Tomnashia S.Y.Kondr. & Hur (2017) (family Teloschistaceae) is another generic eponym.^[28]

Selected publications

A comprehensive list of Nash's publication from the period 1971 to 2010 is given in Bates and colleagues' 2011 Festschrift.^[11] Some representative publications include:

Books

• Nash III, Thomas H.; Wirth, Volkmar, eds. (1988). Lichens, Bryophytes and Air Quality. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 30. Berlin: J. Cramer.
  ISBN 978-3-443-58009-4.^[29]
• Nash III, Thomas H., ed. (1996). Lichen Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-521-45974-7
  . (reprinted in 2008)
• Nash III, T. H.; Ryan, B. D.; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F., eds. (2002). Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. 1. The Pyrenolichens and most of the Squamulose and Macrolichens. Tempe: Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Department of Plant Biology.
  ISBN 978-0-9716759-0-2
  .
• Nash III, T. H.; Ryan, B. D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F., eds. (2004). Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. 2. Most of the Microlichens, Balance of the Macrolichens, and Lichenicolous Fungi. Tempe: Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Department of Plant Biology.
  ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9
  .
• Nash III, T. H.; Gries, C.; F., Bungartz, eds. (2007). Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. 3. Balance of the Microlichens, and the Lichenicolous Fungi. Tempe: Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Department of Plant Biology.
  ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9
  .

• Sigal, Lorene L.; Nash III, T. H. (1983). "Lichen communities on conifers in southern California mountains: An ecological survey relative to oxidant air pollution". Ecology. 64 (6): 1343–1354.
  JSTOR 1937489
  .
• Boonpragob, Kansri; Nash III, T. H. (1991). "Physiological responses of the lichen Ramalina menziesii Tayl. to the Los Angeles urban environment". Environmental and Experimental Botany. 31 (2): 229–238.
  doi:10.1016/0098-8472(91)90075-Y
  .
• Ernst-Russell, Michael A.; Elix, John A.; Chai, Christina L.L.; Willis, Anthony C.; Hamada, Nobuo; Nash III, T. H. (1999). "Hybocarpone, a novel cytotoxic naphthazarin derivative from mycobiont cultures of the lichen Lecanora hybocarpa". Tetrahedron Letters. 40 (34): 6321–6324.
  doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(99)01220-4
  .
• Zambrano, A.; Nash III, T.H. (2000). "Lichen responses to short-term transplantation in Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City". Environmental Pollution. 107 (3): 407–412.
  doi:10.1016/S0269-7491(99)00169-4
  .
• Herrera-Campos, M.A.; Nash III, T.H.; Zambrano, A. (2001). "A revision of the Usnea fragilescens group for Mexico". Bryologist. 104: 235–259.
  S2CID 86233759
  .
• Hafellner, J.; Triebel, D.; Ryan, B.D.; Nash III, T.H. (2002). "On lichenicolous fungi from North America II". Mycotaxon. 84: 293–329.
• Nash III, T.H.; Gries, C. (2002). "Lichens as bioindicators of sulfur dioxide" (PDF). Symbiosis. 33 (1): 1–21.
• Zschau, T.; Getty, S.; Gries, C.; Ameron, Y.; Zambrano, A.; Nash III, T.H. (2003). "Historical and current atmospheric deposition to the epilithic lichen Xanthoparmelia in Maricopa County, Arizona". Environmental Pollution. 125 (1): 21–30.
  PMID 12804824
  .
• Bungartz, F.; Garvie, L.A.J.; Nash III, T.H. (2004). "Anatomy of the endolithic Sonoran Desert lichen Verrucaria rubrocincta Breuss: implications for biodeterioration and biomineralization". Lichenologist. 36 (1): 55–73.
  S2CID 86211017
  .
• Riddell, Jennifer; Nash III, Thomas H.; Padgett, Pamela (2008). "The effect of HNO₃ gas on the lichen Ramalina menziesii". Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants. 203 (1): 47–54.
  doi:10.1016/j.flora.2007.10.001
  .
• Bates, Scott T.; Nash III, T. H.; Sweat, Ken G.; Garcia-Pichel, Ferran (2010). "Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover". Journal of Arid Environments. 74 (10): 1192–1199.
  doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.05.033
  .

See also

• Category:Taxa named by Thomas Hawkes Nash III

References