Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi/Lichen task force/Todo

Here are some of the many tasks that need doing:


 * Tag related articles. I think we've largely completed this, barring perhaps a few untagged species articles.
 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here. We've approached everyone who's written anything about lichens in the past few years.
 * Ensure higher-level taxa articles (genera, families, orders, classes) have up-to-date list of constituent taxa
 * Finish tasks detailed on Lichen class table
 * Finish tasks detailed on Lichen order table
 * Finish tasks detailed on Lichen family table


 * Convert any old-style manual taxoboxes to Template:Automatic taxoboxes. Here's a list of those in Category:Lichen that still show a taxobox rather than an automatic taxobox.Clavulinaceae is still awaiting clarification from taxon specialists.
 * Ensure all taxon articles have all appropriate categories (see Featured/Good content in "Showcase" tab for examples of categorisation schemes)
 * These include: classification cat; lichen species/genus/family/order cat; location cat(s) (for species); year described in cat; taxa named by cat(s) (if available)


 * Review importance and quality of existing articles
 * Write articles on notable lichenologists. Getting rid of all redlinks in the list of Acharius Medal winners should probably be a priority
 * Specifically: James D. Lawrey, Thomas George Allan Green , Pier Luigi Nimis , Hannes Hertel , Ludger Kappen , Georges Clauzade , Christian Leuckert , Josef Poelt
 * Other notable lichenologists missing articles: Thomas Douglas Victor Swinscow, Arthur Edward Wade , Oliver Gilbert (lichenologist) , Frank Hatton Brightman , Brian William Fox , Peter Lambley, Rebecca Yahr , Ezra Michener , William Mudd , Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. , Walter Watson (lichenologist), Léon Vouaux , Vitus Grummann , Oscar Klement , James Murray (lichenologist) , Edit Farkas & László Lőkös see link, Heinrich Sandstede, Martino Anzi , Guy Nearing, Camillo Sbarbaro, Birger Kajanus, André Bellemère, Jacques Lambinon, Kenneth Andrew Kershaw , Ödön Szatala, Kerry Knudsen, Clifford M. Wetmore, Einar Timdal, Robert Lücking , Ferenc Fóriss, László Gallé, László Sántha, György Timkó, Greta Sernander


 * Improve standards of article about highly-linked lichenology terms. Some candidates: thallus, medulla (lichenology), soredium, isidium, areolate, crustose lichen, fruticose lichen, corticolous lichen, saxicolous lichen, lichenicolous fungus, etc. (more candidates in Category:Lichenology)
 * Update Template:Lichen family taxonomy (using Wijayawardene et al. 2022; see "Taxonomy & resources" tab) and deploy on appropriate articles
 * GA-class article Cryptothecia rubrocincta (and its genus article) needs to be updated (has been transferred to Herpothallon)
 * Tackle the issues raised on the project's cleanup listing
 * Set up and populate categories to allow navigation by biological classification.
 * Update various "List of genus name" articles, many of which are very out of date or not adequately referenced (see Category:Lists of lichens for examples)
 * Improve standards of project's "vital articles": Lichen, Erik Acharius, Lecanorales, Parmeliaceae, Usnea, Cetraria islandica, Cladonia rangiferina, Evernia prunastri, Lobaria pulmonaria, Parmotrema perlatum and Pseudevernia furfuracea.
 * Add "year of description" categories to all existing lichen species and genus articles.
 * Add "taxa named by" categories to all existing lichen species and genus articles.
 * Add appropriate terms to Glossary of lichen terms
 * add citations to articles currently with 0 or 1 citation(s)
 * Articles for creation (feel free to add suggestions):
 * British Lichen Society
 * History of lichenology
 * List of lichenicolous fungi
 * lichenologist (right now a redirect to lichenology – perhaps a list of notable lichenologists?)
 * Photobiont
 * List of lichen photobionts – "about 156 species from 56 genera" (2019)
 * List of lichen products – about 1000 identified so far (our coverage can be seen in Category:Lichen products)
 * Lichens in popular culture
 * Plasticolous lichen
 * Lichen systematics – would include lichen taxonomy; there's a long and interesting history behind the scientific acceptance of the lichen as a composite organism, and how to classify such an organism. This article could outline that history, continuing up to the present-day molecular phylogenetic revolution and how that's changed systematics and our understanding of phylogenetic relationships
 * Sexual reproduction in lichens – both of the major lichen textbooks (Lichen Biology Nash et al. (eds.) 2008 and The Lichens Ahmadjian & Hale 1973) have meaty chapters on this very topic, so it's not like there's a lack of material to work with
 * Lichen resynthesis – 1500+ Google Scholar results; refers to the artificial reestablishment of lichens in under laboratory-controlled conditions by growing mycobiont and photobiont together
 * Lichens as bioindicators – a Google Scholar search of this phrase pulls up 17,000+ results
 * Lichens and air pollution – 10's of thousands of hits for this topic. Should be coordinated with above article to avoid overlap
 * Lichens and pedogenesis – the latter term refers to soil formation by the breakdown of rock, something saxicolous, crustose lichens are good at and a phenomenon that has been widely researched (5700+ hits on Google Scholar)
 * Lichen biogeography – lots of literature
 * Lichens and climate change - the news is not good!
 * Photosynthesis in lichens
 * Borderline lichen – is it a lichen or not? there's enough literature out there for an article about these atypical fungal/algal associations
 * List of fossil lichens – there's 167 known fossil lichens (as of 2017)
 * Evolution of lichens – lichenization has happened multiple times, so it's clearly a successful strategy
 * Pyrenocarpous lichens - term used a lot but what does it mean?
 * Reproduction in lichens – asexual as well as sexual reproduction probably deserves a dedicated article (i.e. separate from section in lichen)
 * Bipolar lichens – lichens that occur in both Arctic and Antarctic regions (should also be summarised in Lichen biogeography article)
 * Lichens of Antarctica – more than 300 species known in 2001 (Øvstedal DO, Lewis Smith RI. 2001. Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia)
 * Lichens of the Arctic – about 1750 lichens known to occur there
 * Marine lichens, Freshwater lichens – 700 species of the former and 200 of the latter, says a 2000 estimate
 * Mycophycobiosis – a symbiosis where a fungus lives in the macroscopic thallus of marine algae; technically not a lichen, but an article the encyclopedia should have and not illogical to have under the purview of this task force. See and the French wiki article
 * Endolichenic fungus – a fungus that lives in the thallus of a lichen; many sources (including entire books) have been written about this topic
 * split out the article rock tripe (currently a redirect to genus Umbilicaria) into two articles: Umbilicaria the lichen-forming fungal genus, and "rock tripe" as a survival food. I think there's enough literature out there that the latter could become a good 1000+-word article by itself, which could then be summarized with a in the taxon article (which is anticipated to later become much larger...)
 * lichen microbiome – microbial communities within lichens, lots of research recently