Dr Karina Wilk
Research Assistant
Research interests
- Taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and biogeography of lichenized fungi of Teloschistaceae, with emphasis on tropical species.
- Systematics and evolution of Teloschistaceae.
- Integrative taxonomy use to assess the species delimitation.
- Diversity, distribution and protection of lichenized fungi of South America and Asia (Kirgiz Republic, Mongolia, Russia).
Recent publications (selected)
Fałtynowicz W., Czarnota P., Krzewicka B., Wilk K., Jabłońska A., Oset M., Ossowska E.A., Śliwa L., Kukwa M. 2024. Lichens of Poland. A fifth annotated checklist. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków. DOI
Wilk K., Lücking R. 2024. Quantitative integrative taxonomy informs species delimitation in Teloschistaceae (lichenized Ascomycota): the genus Wetmoreana as a case study. IMA Fungus 15: 9. DOI
Wilk K. 2023. New species of Tayloriellina (lichenized Ascomycota, Teloschistaceae) from Bolivia. Phytotaxa 616: 183–188. DOI
Wilk K., Pabijan M., Saługa M., Gaya E., Lücking R. 2021. Phylogenetic revision of South American Teloschistaceae (lichenized Ascomycota, Teloschistales) reveals three new genera and species. Mycologia 113: 278–299. DOI
Ludwig L.R., Kantvilas G., Nilsen A.R., Orlovich D.A., Ohmura Y., Summerfield T.C., Wilk K., Lord J.M. 2020. A molecular-genetic reassessment of the circumscription of the lichen genus Icmadophila. The Lichenologist 52: 213–220. DOI
Wilk K. 2020. Huriella flakusii (Teloschistaceae, lichenized Ascomycota), a new species from the Colca Canyon region in Peru. The Lichenologist 52: 37–47. DOI
Lücking R., Dal Forno M., Moncada B., Coca L.F., Vargas-Mendoza L.Y., Aptroot A., Arias L.J., Besal B., Bungartz F., Cabrera-Amaya D.M., Cáceres M.E.S., Chaves J.L., Eliasaro S., Gutiérrez M.C., Hernández Marin J.E., de los Ángeles Herrera-Campos M., Holgado-Rojas M.E., Jonitz H., Kukwa M., Lucheta F., Madriñán S., Marcelli M.P, de Azevedo Martins S.M., Mercado-Díaz J.A., Molina J.A., Morales E.A., Nelson P.R., Nugra F., Ortega F., Paredes T., Patiño A.L., Peláez-Pulido R.N., Pérez Pérez R.E., Perlmutter G.B., Rivas-Plata E., Robayo J., Rodríguez C., Simijaca D.F., Soto-Medina E., Spielmann A.A., Suárez-Corredor A., Torres J.-M., Vargas C.A, Yánez-Ayabaca A., Weerakoon G., Wilk K., Pacheco M.C., Diazgranados M., Brokamp G., Borsch T., Gillevet P.M., Sikaroodi M., Lawrey J.D. 2017. Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus: seventy new species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), honouring David Leslie Hawksworth's seventieth birthday. Fungal Diversity 84: 139–207. DOI
Wilk K., Flakus A. 2017. Eight Caloplaca species newly recorded from Bolivia, including C. crocina comb. nov. Mycotaxon 132: 125–140. DOI
Frolov I., Vondrák J., Fernández-Mendoza F., Wilk K., Khodosovtsev A., Halıcı M.G. 2016. Three new, seemingly-cryptic species in the lichen genus Caloplaca (Teloschistaceae) distinguished in two-phase phenotype evaluation. Annales Botanici Fennici 53: 243–262. DOI