Irwin M. Brodo

Canadian lichenologist and botanist

Irwin M. Brodo (born 1935) is an emeritus scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is an authority on the identification and biology of lichens. Irwin Brodo was honored in 1994 with an Acharius Medal presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology.[1]

Brodo did his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, and received a master's degree from Cornell University. He earned a Ph.D. in lichenology under the supervision of Henry Imshaug at Michigan State University.[1] He later went on to teach at Université Laval and the University of Alaska, and he also supervised master's students at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.[2]

Brodo's list of publications includes 75 research papers, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. In 1993, Brodo was awarded the Mary E. Elliot Service Award for his meritorious service to the Canadian Botanical Association[3] — and in 2003, for lifetime achievement, the association's George Lawson Medal.[4] One of Irwin Brodo's great achievements was the publication in 2001 of the 795 page book, "Lichens of North America" with high-quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff. It won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award (Nature Guidebook).[5] In 2016, the trio, with additional collaborator Susan Laurie-Bourque, produced Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded.[6] In 2013, Brodo was presented with an honorary doctorate from Carleton University, "in recognition of his distinguished career in lichenology and scientific leadership in the international biosystematics community".[2]

In 1970, Brodo started to edit the exsiccata series Lichenes Canadenses exsiccati.[7]

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

## Eponyms

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Several lichen taxa have been named to honour Brodo. These eponyms include:

* Brodoa Goward (1987)[9]
* Bactrospora brodoi Egea & Torrente (1993)[10]
* Bryoria trichodes subsp. brodoana Bystr. & Fabiszewski (1998)[11]
* Lecanora brodoana Lumbsch & T.Nash (1995)[12]
* Lecidea brodoana Hertel & Leuckert (2004)[13]

## See also

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* Category:Taxa named by Irwin Brodo

## References

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1. ^ a b Kärnefelt, Ingvar (19 August 1994). "Acharius Medallists: Irwin M. Brodo". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
2. ^ a b "Carleton Presents Renowned Lichenologist With Honorary Doctorate". Carleton University. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
3. ^ "Award for Irwin Brodo" (PDF). International Lichenological Newsletter. 27 (1): 13–14. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
4. ^ "Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal". Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada.
5. ^ Watters, Ron. "Winners of the 2002 National Outdoor Book Awards". National Outdoor Book Awards. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
6. ^ Brodo, Irwin M; Laurie-Bourque, Susan; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2016). Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded. Yale University Press. p. 424\. ISBN 978-0300195736.
7. ^ "Lichenes Canadenses exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=760360419". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Brodo.
9. ^ Goward, Trevor (1986). "Brodoa, a new lichen genus in the Parmeliaceae". Bryologist. 89 (3): 219–223. doi:10.2307/3243288. JSTOR 3243288.
10. ^ Egea, J. M.; Torrente, P. (2007). "The lichen genus Bactrospora". The Lichenologist. 25 (3): 211–255. doi:10.1006/lich.1993.1028.
11. ^ Bystrek, Jan; Fabiszewski, Jerzy (1998). "Materials to North American lichen flora". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 67 (1): 87–93. doi:10.5586/asbp.1998.012.
12. ^ Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Nash, Thomas H. (1995). "New species and new records of Lecanora s.str. from Western North America". The Bryologist. 98 (3): 398–401. doi:10.2307/3243379. JSTOR 3243379.
13. ^ Nash, T. H. III; Ryan, B. D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F. (2004). Lichen flora of the greater Sonoran Desert region. Vol. 2\. Lichens Unlimited. p. 290\. ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9.

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