University College Cork (UCC): Planning and Management Tools for Biodiversity in a Range of Irish Forests

Name: Howard Fox

Position: PhD Student
Address: Department of Botany,

School of Natural Sciences,
Trinity College, Dublin 2

T: 353 (0)1 896 1051

F: 353 (0)1 896 1147

Biography

Howard Fox is a botanist with a specialist skill in the identification of lichens and mushrooms developed during twenty years of taxonomic and field work in Ireland . He worked for many years as museum curator of the herbarium collections in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin before starting this PhD studentship on epiphyte diversity. He has travelled extensively in Ireland and Northern Ireland exploring the landscape for fungi and lichens and expanding the knowledge of the species biodiversity of conservation designated and other lands. Also, he has made contributions to lichen exploration in the tropics.

He has published botanical research on various topics including bogs, bryophilous fungi, herbaria, the 19^th century Irish lichenologist Isaac Carroll, the vegetation of Brackloon wood. He maintains a special interest in seeing lichenicolous fungi in Ireland , and research on the edible fungi of Irish forests.

Publications

Fox HF & Lonergan J. 1993. Pseudoplectania sphagnophila (Pers.) Kreisel (Ascomycotina: Sarcotomataceae) in Ireland . Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 16: 52-56.

Fox HF, Grant PJ & Moore CR. 1994. Octospora musci-muralis Graddon (Ascomycotina: Humariaceae) in Ireland . Irish Naturalists’ Journal 24(9): 378-379.

Fox HF. 1994. AA Glovebox Atlas Ireland . – Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 17: 215-217

Fox HF. 1996. Marine algae of Northern Ireland . Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 19: 208-210.

Fox HF. 1997. Parasitic fungi growing on lichens in an orchard. British Lichen Society Bulletin 81: 1-2.

Fox HF. 1998. The conservation of lower plants in woodland' by N.G. Hodgetts. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 26 (1-2): 67-68.

Fox HF. 1998. Summer 1998 field meeting in Connemara, Ireland . British Lichen Society Bulletin 83: 30-36.

Fox HF. 1999. Lichens of three mine sites in Co. Wicklow, Ireland . Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 99B(1): 67-71.

Fox HF, Blockeel T & Perry R. 1999. Summer Field Meeting: Dungarvan and New Ross, 1999. Full Text Here.

O’Connor, JP & Fox HF. 2000. The Horse Chestnut Scale Pulvinaria regalis Canard (Hemiptera: Coccidae) new to Ireland . Entomologists Gazette 51: 145-146.

Fox HF. 2000. Lichenicolous fungi from Ireland . In: The Fourth International Association for Lichenology Symposium, Progress and Problems in Lichenology at the Turn of the Millennium. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona , pp. (unpaginated addendum).

Fox HF & Scannell MJP. 2000. Isaac Carroll (1828-1880): a catalogue of lichens collected in Scandinavia in 1863 housed in the Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin . Glasra 4: 63-84. PDF.

Fox HF, Cullen M, Little DJ, Ciaurriz P, Ryan D, Dwyer R, Boyle GM. 2001. Vegetation Monitoring and Survey of Brackloon Wood, Westport, Co. Mayo. Forest Ecosystem Research Group report 31: i-vii, 1-90.

Fox HF. 2001. Lichen herbarium resources in Ireland . In Rushton BS, Hackney P & Tyrie CR, eds. Biological Collections & Biodiversity. Linnean Society, Systematics Association and Ulster Museum, Belfast . pp 55-68.

Fox HF. 2001. Census catalogue of the lichenicolous fungi of Ireland . Full Text Here.

Fox HF. 2001. New records of Ascomycetes from bogs in Ireland . Irish Naturalists' Journal 26(12): 477-478.

Fox HF. 2001. The liverwort flora of the British Isles. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 25: 307-308.

Fox HF. 2004. Checklist of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Ireland - Version 2. Full Text Here.

Fox HF. 2004. Döbbeler & Rambold (eds) Hannes Hertel Festschrift. Mycotaxon 90: 481-482.

Brodeková L, Gilmer A, Dowding P, Fox H, Guttová A. 2006. An Assessment of Epiphytic Lichen Diversity and Environmental Quality in Knocksink Wood Nature Reserve, Ireland . Biology and Environment 106B (3); 215-223. Click here for PDF.

Fox HF, Cullen M. 2008. Checklist of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of St. Lucia. Preliminary version 1 January 2008. Website

Fox H, Kelly D. 2008. Epiphyte diversity in plantation and native forests. EnviroNews 16: 5 PDF

Presentations

Fox HF & Kelly, DK. Epiphyte diversity in native and plantation forests. ENVIRON 2008, Dundalk. Click here for PDF.