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.[2]
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.[2]
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.
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.
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abHawksworth, 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.
^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.
^Aptroot, A.; Sipman, H.J.M. (2001). "New Hong Kong lichens, ascomycetes and lichenicolous fungi". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 91: 317–343.
^Sparrius, L.B. (2004). "A monograph of Enterographa and Sclerophyton". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 89: 56.
^Aptroot, A. (2008). "Lichens of St Helena and Ascension Island". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 158: 147–171 [160].
^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 [266].
^Kukwa, M.; Schiefelbein, U.; Flakus, A. (2013). "A contribution to the lichen family Graphidaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota) of Bolivia". Herzogia. 26 (2): 231–252 [242].