Collecting & Curating

Curating Lichens Here we provide some general recommendations on best practices for curating specimens of lichenized fungi, i.e., processing these specimens to be archived in a collection. Before learning how to curate the material, it might help to understand about collecting lichens. Please review the recommendations how to collect specimens. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________________ … Curating Specimens

Collecting Lichens Here we provide some general recommendations on best practices for collecting specimens of lichenized fungi. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________________ Why collect specimens? Generally speaking, there are two main objectives why you may want to collect lichen specimens: (1) For identification: Even though image quality has much improved with the advance of digital … Collecting Specimens