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Thomas Læssøe

m. sci. (Aarhus Univ.); ph.d. (Univ. of Copenhagen)

1989 …2020

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Primary fields of research

Mykologi

  •    taxonomi (revisioner, nybeskrivelse af arter og andre taxa)
  •    biodiversitetsstudier
  •    identifikationsværktøjer
  •    tropiske svampe
  •    nordeuropæiske svampe

Current research

Taxonomic studies of pyrenomycetes, especially tropical members of the Xylariaceae (Ascomycota). Currently the following geographical areas are under investigation: Ecuador, Brazilian mata atlantica and central Bahia, Puerto Rico, St. John (U.S. Virgin Islands), Sabah (Malaysia), Brunei, parts of Northern Europe and Far Eastern Russia. Other areas of current interest includes the Lasiosphaeriaceae and Hypocreales, fungal biodiversity and Mycena (Basidiomycota) from Northern Europe. Is an active member of a Scandinavian projects on saproxylic organisms.
Another major area of interest is the construction of user friendly multientry, computerised keys. See: www.mycokey.com.

Special duties

Internal: Ph.d. committee, international committee, Socrates/Erasmus coordinator, responsible for library and study collections etc.
External: Member of the Danish Mycological Society Conservation committee, co-editor of the society journal 'Svampe' and co-editor of the book series 'Fungi of Northern Europe'.

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  • Morphological traits predict host-tree specialization in wood-inhabiting fungal communities

    Purhonen, J., Ovaskainen, O., Halme, P., Komonen, A., Huhtinen, S., Kotiranta, H., Læssøe, T. & Abrego, N., Aug 2020, In: Fungal Ecology. 8 p., 100863.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • A systematic survey of regional multi-taxon biodiversity: evaluating strategies and coverage

    Brunbjerg, A. K., Bruun, H. H., Brøndum, L., Classen, A. T., Dalby, L., Fog, K., Frøslev, T. G., Goldberg, I., Hansen, A. J., Hansen, M. D. D., Høye, T. T., Illum, A. A., Læssøe, T., Newman, G. S., Skipper, L., Søchting, U. & Ejrnæs, R., 15 Oct 2019, In: BMC Ecology. 19, 15 p., 43.

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    6 Citations (Scopus)
    15 Downloads (Pure)

  • Fungal Planet description sheets: 868-950

    Crous, P. W., Carnegie, A. J., Wingfield, M. J., Sharma, R., Mughini, G., Noordeloos, M. E., Santini, A., Shouche, Y. S., Bezerra, J. D. P., Dima, B., Guarnaccia, V., Imrefi, I., Jurjevic, Z., Knapp, D. G., Kovacs, G. M., Magista, D., Perrone, G., Rama, T., Rebriev, Y. A. & Shivas, R. G. & 151 others, Singh, S. M., Souza-Motta, C. M., Thangavel, R., Adhapure, N. N., Alexandrova, A. V., Alfenas, A. C., Alfenas, R. F., Alvarado, P., Alves, A. L., Andrade, D. A., Andrade, J. P., Barbosa, R. N., Barili, A., Barnes, C. W., Baseia, I. G., Bellanger, J.-M., Berlanas, C., Bessette, A. E., Bessette, A. R., Biketova, A. Y., Bomfim, F. S., Brandrud, T. E., Bransgrove, K., Brito, A. C. Q., Cano-Lira, J. F., Cantillo, T., Cavalcanti, A. D., Cheewangkoon, R., Chikowski, R. S., Conforto, C., Cordeiro, T. R. L., Craine, J. D., Cruz, R., Damm, U., de Oliveira, R. J. V., de Souza, J. T., de Souza, H. G., Dearnaley, J. D. W., Dimitrov, R. A., Dovana, F., Erhard, A., Esteve-Raventos, F., Felix, C. R., Ferisin, G., Fernandes, R. A., Ferreira, R. J., Ferro, L. O., Figueiredo, C. N., Frank, J. L., Freire, K. T. L. S., Garcia, D., Gene, J., Gesiorska, A., Gibertoni, T. B., Gondra, R. A. G., Gouliamova, D. E., Gramaje, D., Guard, F., Gusmao, L. F. P., Haitook, S., Hirooka, Y., Houbraken, J., Hubka, V., Inamdar, A., Iturriaga, T., Iturrieta-Gonzalez, I., Jadan, M., Jiang, N., Justo, A., Kachalkin, A. V., Kapitonov, V. I., Karadelev, M., Karakehian, J., Kasuya, T., Kautmanova, I., Kruse, J., Kusan, I., Kuznetsova, T. A., Landell, M. F., Larsson, K.-H., Lee, H. B., Lima, D. X., Lira, C. R. S., Machado, A. R., Madrid, H., Magalhaes, O. M. C., Majerova, H., Malysheva, E. F., Mapperson, R. R., Marbach, P. A. S., Martin, M. P., Martin-Sanz, A., Matocec, N., McTaggart, A. R., Mello, J. F., Melo, R. F. R., Mesic, A., Michereff, S. J., Miller, A. N., Minoshima, A., Molinero-Ruiz, L., Morozova, O. V., Mosoh, D., Nabe, M., Naik, R., Nara, K., Nascimento, S. S., Neves, R. P., Olariaga, I., Oliveira, R. L., Oliveira, T. G. L., Ono, T., Ordonez, M. E., Ottoni, A. D. M., Paiva, L. M., Pancorbo, F., Pant, B., Pawlowska, J., Peterson, S. W., Raudabaugh, D. B., Rodriguez-Andrade, E., Rubio, E., Rusevska, K., Santiago, A. L. C. M. A., Santos, A. C. S., Santos, C., Sazanova, N. A., Shah, S., Sharma, J., Silva, B. D. B., Siquier, J. L., Sonawane, M. S., Stchigel, A. M., Svetasheva, T., Tamakeaw, N., Telleria, M. T., Tiago, P. V., Tian, C. M., Tkalcec, Z., Tomashevskaya, M. A., Truong, H. H., Vecherskii, M. V., Visagie, C. M., Vizzini, A., Yilmaz, N., Zmitrovich, I. V., Zvyagina, E. A., Boekhout, T., Kehlet, T., Laessoe, T. & Groenewald, J. Z., Jul 2019, In: Persoonia. 42, p. 291-473

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    47 Citations (Scopus)

  • How citizen science boosted primary knowledge on fungal biodiversity in Denmark

    Heilmann-Clausen, J., Bruun, H. H., Ejrnæs, R., Frøslev, T. G., Læssøe, T. & Petersen, J. H., 2019, In: Biological Conservation. 237, p. 366-372 7 p.

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    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Man against machine: do fungal fruitbodies and eDNA give similar biodiversity assessments across broad environmental gradients?

    Frøslev, T. G., Kjøller, R., Bruun, H. H., Ejrnæs, R., Hansen, A. J., Læssøe, T. & Heilmann-Clausen, J., 2019, In: Biological Conservation. 233, p. 201-212 12 p.

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    15 Citations (Scopus)

  • European Hodophilus (Clavariaceae, Agaricales) species with yellow stipe

    Adamcík, S., Dima, B., Adamciková, K., Harries, D., Læssøe, T., Moreau, P.-A. & Jancovicova, S., 1 Sept 2018, In: Mycological Progress. 17, 9, p. 1097-1111

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    4 Citations (Scopus)

  • Four new species of Morchella from the Americas

    Baroni, T. J., Beug, M. W., Cantrell, S. A., Clements, T. A., Iturriaga, T., Laessoe, T., Rojas, M. E. H., Aguilar, F. M., Quispe, M. O., Jean Lodge, D. & O'Donnell, K., 2 Nov 2018, In: Mycologia. 110, 6, p. 1205-1221

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    6 Citations (Scopus)

  • Fungal spore diversity reflects substrate-specific deposition challenges

    Calhim, S., Halme, P., Petersen, J. H., Læssøe, T., Bässler, C. & Heilmann-Clausen, J., 1 Dec 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 9 p., 5356 .

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    21 Citations (Scopus)
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