Eimy Rivas Plata

Eimy Rivas Plata (born 1978), lichenologist.

• Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive. Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA (address in 2009)
• Biological Sciences Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607, USA (address in 2009)

IPNI standard form: Rivas Plata

Taxon names authored

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• 22 taxon names authored by Eimy Rivas Plata

Gyalectidiuim viride Lücking, W.R.Buck & Rivas Plata, 2007

Publications

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• Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R., Aptroot, A., Sipman, H.J.M., Chaves, J.L., Umaña, L. & Lizano, D. 2006. A first assessment of the Ticolichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica: the genus Coenogonium (Ostropales: Coenogoniaceae), with a world-wide key and checklist and a phenotype-based cladistic analysis. Fungal Diversity 23: 255–321.   RLL List # 208 / Rec.# 29707 – Recent Literature on Lichens PDF Reference page. 
• Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R., Sipman, H.J.M., Mangold, A., Kalb, K. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2010. A world-wide key to the thelotremoid Graphidaceae, excluding the Ocellularia-Myriotrema-Stegobolus clade. The Lichenologist 42(2): 139–185. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282909990491 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Kalb, K., Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2011. The phylogenetic position of Malmidea, a new genus for the Lecidea piperis- and Lecanora granifera-groups (Lecanorales, Malmideaceae), inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences, with special reference to Thai species. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 106: 143–168. RLL List # 225 / Rec.# 33473 – Recent Literature on Lichens Schweizerbart Science Publishers Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Seavey, F., Common, R.S., Beeching, S.Q., Breuss, O., Buck, W.R., Crane, L., Hodges, M., Hodkinson, B.P., Lay, E., Lendemer, J.C., McMullin, R.T., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Nelsen, M.P., Rivas Plata, E., Safranek, W., Sanders, W.B., Schaefer, H.P., Jr. & Seavey, J. 2011. The lichens of Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida: Proceedings from the 18th Tuckerman Workshop. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 49(4): 127–186. Florida Museum of Natural History (PDF) Reference page. 
• Lumbsch, H.T., Ahti, T.T., Altermann, S., Amo de Paz, G., Aptroot, A., Arup, U., Bárcenas-Peña, A., Bawingan, P.A., Benatti, M.N., Betancourt, L., Björk, C.R., Boonpragob, K., Brand, A.M., Bungartz, F., Caceres, M.E.S., Candan, M., Chaves, J.L., Clerc, P., Common, R.S., Coppins, B.J., Crespo, A., Dal-Forno, M., Divakar, P.K., Duya, M.V., Elix, J.A., Elvebakk, A., Fankhauser, J.D., Farkas, E., Ferraro, L.I., Fischer, E., Galloway, D.J., Gaya, E., Giralt, M., Goward, T., Grube, M., Hafellner, J., Hernández, J.E., Herrera-Campos, M.A., Kalb, K., Kärnefelt, I., Kantvilas, G., Killmann, D., Kirika, P.M., Knudsen, K., Komposch, H., Kondratyuk, S.Y., Lawrey, J.D., Mangold, A., Marcelli, M.P., Mccune, B.P., Messuti, M.I., Michlig, A., Miranda-González, R., Moncada, B., Naikatini, A., Nelsen, M.P., Øvstedal, D.O., Palice, Z., Papong, K.B., Parnmen, S., Pérez-Ortega, S., Printzen, C., Rico, V.J., Plata, E.R., Robayo, J., Rosabal, D., Ruprecht, U., Allen, N.S., Sancho, L.G., De Jesus, L.S., Vieira, T.S., Schultz, M., Seaward, M.R.D., Sérusiaux, E., Schmitt, I., Sipman, H.J.M., Sohrabi, M., Søchting, U., Søgaard, M.Z., Sparrius, L.B., Spielmann, A.A., Spribille, T., Sutjaritturakan, J., Thammathaworn, A., Thell, A., Thor, G., Thüs, H., Timdal, E., Truong, C., Türk, R., Umaña-Tenorio, L., Upreti, D.K., Van den Boom, P., Rebuelta, M.V., Wedin, M., Will-Wolf, S., Wirth, V., Wirtz, N., Yahr, R., Yeshitela, K., Ziemmeck, F., Wheeler, T.B. & Lücking, R. 2011. One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity. Phytotaxa 18: 1–127. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1 . Magnolia Press (PDF) Reference page. 
• Cáceres, M.E.S., Rivas Plata, E. & Lücking, R. 2012. Malmographina, a new genus for Graphina malmei (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). The Lichenologist 44(1): 115–120. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282911000697 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2012. A new classification for the family Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes: Ostropales). Fungal Diversity 52(1): 107–121. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-011-0135-8 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2012. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Ocellularia clade (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). Taxon 61(6): 1161–1179. DOI: 10.1002/tax.616001 Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Tehler, A., Bungartz, F., Rivas Plata, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2013. Journey from the West: Did tropical Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) evolve from a saxicolous ancestor along the American Pacific coast? American Journal of Botany 100(5): 844–856. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200548 . Reference page. 
• Rivas Plata, E., Parnmen, S., Staiger, B., Mangold, A., Frisch, A., Weerakoon, G., Hernández, J.E., Cáceres, M.E.S., Kalb, K., Sipman, H.J.M., Common, R.S., Nelsen, M.P., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of Graphidaceae (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes, Ostropales) including 428 species. MycoKeys 6: 55–94. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.6.3482 . Reference page. 
• Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Lücking, R., Rivas Plata, E., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Ertz, D., Mangold, A., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Papong, K., Van den Broeck, D., Weerakoon, G. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Revisiting the phylogeny of Ocellularieae, the second largest tribe within Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 189(1): 52–81. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.6 . ResearchGate . USDA (PDF). Reference page. 
• Lumbsch, H.T., Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Rivas Plata, E., Aptroot, A., Caceres, M.E.S., Ertz, D., Feuerstein, S.C., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Staiger, B., Van den Broeck, D. & Lücking, R. 2014. New higher taxa in the lichen family Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) based on a three-gene skeleton phylogeny. Phytotaxa 189(1): 39–51. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.5 . ResearchGate . USDA (PDF). Reference page. 
• Nelsen, M.P., Lücking, R., Andrew, C.J., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Rivas Plata, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Molecular phylogeny reveals the true colours of Myeloconidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales). Australian systematic botany 27(1): 38–47. DOI: 10.1071/SB13040 Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Mangold, A., Rivas Plata, E., Parnmen, S., Kraichak, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2015. Morphology-based phylogenetic binning to assess a taxonomic challenge: a case study in Graphidaceae (Ascomycota) requires a new generic name for the widespread Leptotrema wightii. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179(3): 436–443. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12327 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Kalb, J., Polyiam, W., Rivas Plata, E., Bawingan, P.A., Kalb, K. & Lücking, R. 2016. ‘Missing links’ alive? Novel taxa represent morphological transitions between distinctive phenotypes among extant Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 268(2): 110–122. SLU Reference page. 
• Lücking, R., Nelsen, M.P., Aptroot, A., Barillas de Klee, R., Bawingan, P.A., Benatti, M.N., Nguyen, Q.B., Bungartz, F., Cáceres, M.E.S., Canêz, L.S., Chaves, J.L., Ertz, D., Esquivel, R.E., Ferraro, L.I., Grijalva, A., Gueidan, C., Hernández, J.E., Knight, A., Lumbsch, H.T., Marcelli, M.P., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Moncada, B., Morales, E.A., Naksuwankul, K., Orozco, T., Parnmen, S., Rivas Plata, E., Salazar-Allen, N., Spielmann, A.A. & Ventura, N.E. 2016. A phylogenetic framework for reassessing generic concepts and species delimitation in the lichenized family Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes). The Lichenologist 48(6): 739–762. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282916000505 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Perlmutter, G.B. & Rivas Plata, E. 2018. New combinations and notes on Buellia and Rostania. Opuscula Philolichenum 17: 319–321. NYBG ResearchGate . Reference page.