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2026

LaGreca, S., Phillips, L., Medeiros, I., Allen, J., Lendemer, J., 2026. Updates and Additions to the Lichen Checklist of Mount Mitchell State Park, North Carolina, with Conservation Proposals for Five Rare Species. Castenea 90, 89-108. doi:10.2179/0008-7475.90.2.89

Koch, M., Gonzalez, J., Angel, R., Thomas, J., 2026. First experimental evaluation of zircon-in-garnet elastic thermobarometry at high pressures. Geology doi:10.1130/G54299.1

Westrop, S., Landing, E., 2026. Middle Cambrian (Drumian) trilobites and agnostid arthropods from the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian New Brunswick: bracketing the green–black facies boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 1-19. doi:10.1139/cjes-2024-0154

Lendemer, J., Hollinger, J., 2026. Common Lichens of the Upland Southeast: Appalachia and the Piedmont. Princeton Univerity Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Kozlowski, A., Frieman, R.A., Backhaus, K., Forgeng, H., Feranec, R., Mahan, S., 2026. Glacier-Fed Deltas and New Age Constraints for Glacial Lake Grand Gorge in the Northern Catskill Mountains of New York State, USA. Quaternary 9, 46. doi:10.3390/quat9030046

Utter, B., 2026. Theodore Burr and the Bridging of Early America: The Man, Fellow Bridge Builders, and Their Forgotten Timber Spans by Ronald G. Knapp and Terry E. Miller (review) . New York History 106doi:10.1353/nyh.2025.a983877

Paulsen, J., Sharrett, S., Mumey, D., Larsen, E., Nguyen, N., Lendemer, J., Calabria, L., Hoffman, J., Magori, K., Allen, J., 2026. Helitrons are enriched in lichenized fungi with long generation lengths and small distribution sizes.. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkag153

Landing, E., Schmitz, M., Westrop, S., Geyer, G., 2026. New Middle Cambrian (Drumian) U-Pb age of Cape Breton Island volcanism and Cambrian–lowest Ordovician stratigraphic reevaluation confirm the Bourinot belt (southern “Bras d’Or terrane”) is Avalonian. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 1-19. doi:10.1139/cjes-2025-0044

Lendemer, J., Mayrhofer, H., Morse, C., Scott, P., 2026. Studies in Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi–No. 24: First reports of Thelenella vezdae from North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 25, 38-44.

Damien, P., Sinnesael, M., Mghazli, K., Jamart, V., Geyer, G., Landing, E., Youbi, N., Ounar, J., Omor, H., Boumehdi, M., Arts, M., Huygh, J., Da Silva, A.-C., Daley, A., 2026. A new chronostratigraphic anchor for the early Cambrian: Integrating δ13C chemostratigraphy and Bayesian astrochronology in West Gondwana (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Earth-Science Reviews doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105557

Valley, J., Blum, T., Kitajima, K., Shimizu, K., Spicuzza, M., Gonzalez, J., Kita, N., A., Bauer, Sobolev, S., Jain, C., Cavosie, A., Sobolev, A., 2026. Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth.. Nature 650, 636–641. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10066-2

Spear, F., Gonzalez, J., 2026. A grain boundary diffusion model for the development of oscillatory zoning in garnet. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 181, 64. doi:10.1007/s00410-026-02354-5

Driscoll, K., Lendemer, J., Clayden, S., Harris, R., 2026. Minutophoma buelliarum (Ascomycota, subphylum Pezizomycotina), a new lichenicolous fungus widespread on corticolous, norstictic acid-producing Buellia in eastern North America.

Hart, J., Dotzel, K.M., Winchell-Sweeney, S., 2026. Extending Maize Isotopic Evidence for Pre-contact Indigenous Agronomy to the Middle Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, USA. Journal of Field Archaeology 51, 112-123. doi:10.1080/00934690.2025.2577501

Hopkins-Benton, A, 2026. The Stonewall Uprising and the Fight for Gay Rights, 1969, in: Dearstein, B. (Ed.), Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change. SUNY Press, Albany. pp. 229-242.

Howland, J., Boggess, L., Lendemer, J., 2026. Karinomyces (Pilocarpaceae), a new genus for the Appalachian endemic Schadonia saulskelleyana. The Bryologist 129, 004–022 . doi:10.1639/0007-2745-129.1.004

Witherspoon, C., Lendemer, J., 2026. Noteworthy Records of Three Usnea Species from the New York Adirondacks. Evansia 42, 69-81. doi:10.1639/0747-9859-42.4.69

Ore, M., Butcher, B., Akresh, M., Kirchman, J., Ralston, J., Ruhkl, P., Toews, B., Lovette, I., Walsh, J., 2026. Signals of corresponding genetic diversity loss in four warbler species exhibiting regional or range-wide declines. BMC Biology 25, 5. doi:10.1186/s12915-025-02478-3

Lothrop, J., Smith, K., Winchell-Sweeney, S., 2026. Early Paleoindian Peoples in Western New York: Chronology, Mobility, and Interaction, in: Koldehoff, B., Wright, H. (Eds.), Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction. Texas A&M Univerity Press, College Station. pp. 135-176.

Hart, J., Feranec, R., 2026. Dietary entanglements: a meta-analysis of archaeological human and dog bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 73, 105806. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105806

Utter, B., Grasso, T., 2026. Clinton's Ditch: The Birth of the Erie Canal 1825, in: Dearstein, B. (Ed.), Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change. SUNY Press, Albany. pp. 49-68.

Kaishian, P., Schmidt, R., Kiviat, E., 2026. Laboulbenia variabilis Thaxt. (Fungi: Ascomycota): A New Vouchered Species Record for New York from the Carabid Beetle Oodes amaroides Dejean. Northeastern Naturalist 32, N82-N85. doi:10.1656/045.032.0409

van der Laan, S., Lendemer, J., Sorrells, R., Werier, D., 2026. Sagittaria calycina (Alismataceae), an addition to the flora of New York and Connecticut. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society doi:10.3159/TORREY-D-26-00007.1

Schmidt, R., Sinnott, D., Wright, J., 2026. First Record of Pink Wormfish, Microdesmus longipinnis (Pisces: Microdesmidae) in the Hudson River Estuary. Northeastern Naturalist 32, N86-N88. doi:10.1656/045.032.0410

Torres-Cruz, T., Kaishian, P., Sformo, T., Hopson, W., Gómez-Zapata, P., Aime, C., 2026. New records of willow rust caused by Melampsora laricis-epitea in Alaska, USA and on Salix atrocinerea in Spain. Plant Health Progress doi:https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-10-25-0237-BR

2025

Westrop, S., Landing, E., 2025. Revision of Middle Cambrian trilobites and agnostids from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, reveals a Guzhangian faunal interval in the Avalonian cover sequence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences doi:10.1139/cjes-2025-0020

Pegan, T.M., Kimmitt, A., Benz, B., Weeks, B.C., Aubry, Y., Burg, T.M., Hudon, J., Jones, A.W., Kirchman, J., Ruegg, K.C., Winger, B.M., 2025. Long-distance seasonal migration to the tropics promotes genetic diversity but not gene flow in boreal birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi:10.1038/s41559-025-02699-3

Huygh, J., Alego, T., Sageman, B., Arts, M., Ver Straeten, C., Over, D., Gerord, J., Sablon, L., Crucifix, M., Da Silva, A.-C., 2025. Astronomical control on marine anoxia during the Kellwasser Crisis and Rhinestreet Event (Appalachian Basin, New York, USA). Global and Planetary Change , 105216.

Evankow, A., Howland, J., Lendemer, J., Munshi-South, J., 2025. Urban lichens as an emerging model for urban evolution.. American Journal of Botany 112, e70140. doi:10.1002/ajb2.70140

Quinn, K., Lemak, J., 2025. Margery Ryerson: Art is Contagious. New York State Museum Circular. The University of the State of New York, Albany.

Bicknell, R.D.C., Goodman, A., Laibl, L., Amati, L., 2025. Novel evidence for the youngest Naraoia and a reassessment of naraoiid paleobiogeography. Fossil Record 28, 115–124. doi:10.3897/fr.28.150343

Malinky, J.M., Geyer, G., Landing, E., Oliver, N., 2025. Hyoliths from the Manuels River Formation, middle Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian, upper Wuliuan–Drumian) of Avalonian southeastern Newfoundland. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften doi:10.1127/zdgg/2025/0470

Landing, E., 2025. Comment: Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland by J.J. Álvaro and A. Mills, Sedimentology (71, 1245–1269). Sedimentology doi:10.1111/sed.13253

McCain, C., Manzitto-Tripp, E., Vagle, G., Lendemer, J., 2025. The importance of tree diversity and other abiotic and biotic drivers of lichen species richness in a threatened and mountainous biodiversity hotspot. The Bryologist 128, 522-540. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-128.3.522

Utter, B., 2025. A Few Important Words Written in Stone: Erie Canal Marble Capstone from the Lockport Flight. New York History 106, 121-127. doi:10.1353/nyh.2025.a969504

Hart, J., 2025. The effects of charring on sunflower (Helianthus annuus L) achenes and kernels: Taphonomic and behavioral implications. PLOS ONE 20, e0326159. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0326159

Adams, M., McCabe, T., 2025. Nomenclatorial novelties of the genus Leucania Ochsenheimer, 1816 that occur in Central America (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) . SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 50, 217–231. doi:10.57065/shilap.1047

Cardinal, J.S., Loughmiller-Cardinal, J., 2025. The Foundations of Culture and Social Information. Heritage 8, 386. doi:10.3390/heritage8090386

Hart, J., Birch, J., Gates-St-Pierre, C., Dermarker, S., 2025. Smoking Pipes as Indicators of Sociopolitical Changes in Huron-Wendat Social Networks. American Antiquity 90, 467–486. doi:10.1017/aaq.2025.1

Hodkinson, B.P., Lendemer, J., 2025. Next-generation sequencing reveals sterile crustose lichen phylogeny. Microsphere 4, 1028–1039. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/4/6/1

Gonzalez, J., Mazzucchelli, M., Thomas, J., Angel, R., Darling, R., Atchinson, K., Gilio, M., Alvaro, M., 2025. Elastic thermobarometry of natural and experimental quartz inclusions in garnet (QuiG) under tension. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 180, 70.

Eastham, L.C., Feranec, R., 2025. Examining potential drivers of variation in the carbonate-collagen stable carbon isotope offset of modern and Late Pleistocene ungulates from C3-dominant ecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 674, 113014. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113014

Kirchman, J., Feranec, R., Butera, J., vonHoldt, B., 2025. A Remarkable Specimen Record of an Apparently Wild Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) from Upstate New York. Northeastern Naturalist 38, 455-471. doi:10.1656/045.032.0310

Geyer, G., Landing, E., 2025. Lower Cambrian (Stage 3–4) of NW Africa: West Gondwanan bio- and lithostratigraphy of Stage 4 in the Moroccan Atlas ranges, with evaluation of global Stage 4. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften doi:10.1127/zdgg/2025/0478

Landing, E., Schmitz, M.D., Westrop, S.R., Geyer, G., 2025. U-Pb volcanic zircon dates from New Brunswick constrain the Middle Cambrian Drumian Stage and trans-Avalonian green–black boundary. Geological Magazine 162, e25. doi:10.1017/S0016756825100137

Waters, D.P., Struwe, L., Lendemer, J., 2025. The lichens and allied fungi of Wickecheoke Creek Preserve, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA: A baseline pre–Hurricane Ida. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society doi:https://doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-24-00049.1

Saul, Gwendolyn, 2025. Museums and Policy. Practicing Anthropology , 1 - 2. doi:10.1080/08884552.2025.2458552

Farrell, T.P., Cothren, H.R., Sundberg, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Dehler, C.M., Landing, E., Karlstrom, K.E., Crossey, L.J., Hagadorn, J.W., 2025. Revising the late Cambrian time scale and the duration of the SPICE event using a novel Bayesian age modeling approach. Geological Society of America Bulletin doi:10.1130/B37919.1

Landing, E., 2025. The Bakken Model: Deposition of Organic-Rich Mudstones and Petroleum Source Rocks as Shallow-Marine Facies Through the Phanerozoic . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, 895. doi:10.3390/jmse13050895

Kaishian, P., 2025. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature. Spiegel & Grau, New York.