Misplaced Pages

Mark Richard David Seaward (born 10 August 1938) is a British ecologist and lichenologist. He was awarded the Acharius Medal in 2006 for lifetime contributions to lichenology.

Life and career

Seaward was born in Lincoln, England. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1959, and obtained an education diploma from the same institution a year later. While teaching at the Loughborough Training College, he obtained an MSc from the University of Nottingham in 1965. In 1967 he moved on to Trinity and All Saints College. Seaward earned a PhD from the University of Bradford in 1972. His thesis was about urban lichen ecology. He started employment at that university in 1974. In 1989 he was appointed as chair of Professor of Environmental Biology. He has continued as an honorary research professor since his retirement.

Recognition

The genus Seawardiella honours Seaward. Species that have been named after him include: Granulopyrenis seawardii Aptroot & Sipman (2001); Ramalina seawardii Aptroot & Sipman (2001); Enterographa seawardii Lücking & Henssen (2004); Dolichocarpus seawardii Aptroot (2008); Caloplaca seawardii S.Y.Kondr., Kärnefelt & A.Thell 2009); and Graphis seawardii Flakus & Kukwa (2013).

Selected publications

• Seyd, Edmund L.; Seaward, Mark R.D. (1984). "The association of oribatid mites with lichens". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 80 (4): 369–420. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb02552.x.
• Aptroot, André; Seaward, Mark R.D. (1999). "Annotated checklist of Hongkong Lichens" (PDF). Tropical Bryology. 17: 57–101.
• Ellis, Christopher J.; Coppins, Brian J.; Dawson, Terence P.; Seaward, Mark R.D. (2007). "Response of British lichens to climate change scenarios: Trends and uncertainties in the projected impact for contrasting biogeographic groups". Biological Conservation. 140 (3–4): 217–235. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.08.016.
• Thell, Arne; Crespo, Ana; Divakar, Pradeep K.; Kärnefelt, Ingvar; Leavitt, Steven D.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Seaward, Mark R.D. (2012). "A review of the lichen family Parmeliaceae – history, phylogeny and current taxonomy". Nordic Journal of Botany. 30 (6): 641–664. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2012.00008.x.
• Seaward, M.R.D. (2014). "Lichens as Agents of Biodeterioration". Recent Advances in Lichenology. New Delhi: Springer India. pp. 189–211. doi:10.1007/978-81-322-2181-4_9. ISBN 978-81-322-2180-7.

References

1. "Seaward, Mark R.D. (fl. 2004)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
2. ^ Hawksworth, David L.; Coppins, Brian J. (2018). "A tribute to Mark Seaward, environmental lichenologist and recorder par excellence, at eighty". The Lichenologist. 50 (6): 599–602. doi:10.1017/s0024282918000488.
3. Kondratyuk, S.Y.; Kärnefelt, I.; Lőkös, L.; Hur, J.S.; Thell, A. (2018). "Coppinsiella and Seawardiella – two new genera of the Xanthorioideae (Teloschistaceae, Lichen-Forming Ascomycota)". Acta Botanica Hungarica. 60 (3–4): 369–386.
4. Aptroot, A.; Sipman, H.J.M. (2001). "New Hong Kong lichens, ascomycetes and lichenicolous fungi". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 91: 317–343.
5. Sparrius, L.B. (2004). "A monograph of Enterographa and Sclerophyton". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 89: 56.
6. Aptroot, A. (2008). "Lichens of St Helena and Ascension Island". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 158: 147–171 .
7. Kondratyuk, S.Y.; Kärnefelt, I.; Elix, J.A.; Thell, A. (2009). "Contributions to the Teloschistaceae, with particular reference to the Southern Hemisphere". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 100 (389): 207–282 .
8. Kukwa, M.; Schiefelbein, U.; Flakus, A. (2013). "A contribution to the lichen family Graphidaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota) of Bolivia". Herzogia. 26 (2): 231–252 .

• 1938 births
• Living people
• British ecologists
• British lichenologists
• Alumni of the University of Bradford
• Academics of the University of Bradford
• Alumni of the University of Nottingham
• People from Lincoln, England
• Acharius Medal recipients
• 20th-century British scientists
• 21st-century British scientists
• Alumni of the University of Birmingham