Jan-Peter Frahm

Jan-Peter Frahm (February 14, 1945 – February 5, 2014) was a German botanist dedicated to the study of mosses. The standard author abbreviation J.-P.Frahm is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Career

Frahm studied biology and geography at the University of Hamburg and the University of Kiel, graduating magna cum laude in 1972. He then worked at the University of Duisburg, where he was appointed professor in 1981. Research stays at foreign institutes (eg. Helsinki, Paris, Stockholm, Chicago) and a visiting professorship at the University of Alberta in 1989 followed. He moved from Duisburg to the University of Bonn in 1994.[2]

He was honored in 1995 with the Richard Spruce Award by the International Association of Bryologists for excellence in bryology. He was also awarded by the University of Helsinki. In recognition of his achievements, new species such as Sphagnum frahmii, Porotrichum frahmii, Cololejeunea frahmii, Pylaisiella frahmii and Porothamnium frahmii were named after him. The genus Frahmiella in the family Brachytheciaceae also bears his name. In 2014, he became the namesake of the bryological online journal Frahmia.[3]

Frahm conducted research on numerous topics of bryology and published more than 650 publications.[2] Within his moss research, he was concerned with bioindication. Frahm noted that the improved air quality cities has led to an increased number of lichen species colonizing urban areas. He also demonstrated that the release of ammonia by auto-catalysts causes nitrogen-loving lichens and mosses and nitrogen-emitting plants to settle along roads.[4]

Journalistic activity

Frahm was the publisher of the following journals:

  • Tropical Bryology, an international non-profit journal on the biology of tropical mosses
  • Limprichtia, a magazine for moss research in Germany
  • Bryologische Rundbriefe, an electronic newsletter with information on moss research in Germany
  • Archive For Bryology, an internet magazine

Works

Frahm was author or co-author of the following publications:

  • Mit Moosen begrünen – Gärten, Dächer, Mauern, Terrarien, Aquarien, Straßenränder – eine Anleitung zur Kultur. 3. Auflage. Weißdorn-Verlag Jena, 106 S.
  • mit N. Froitzheim, R. Sievers, K. Weddeling: Führer zu naturkundlichen Exkursionen in der Umgebung von Bonn. I. Das Rheintal. Bouvier-Berlag, Bonn.
  • Mosses and Liverworts of the Mascarenes and the Seychelles. bod-Verlag, 144 S.
  • Mosses and Liverworts of the Mediterranean. bod-Verlag, 144 S.
  • mit F. Schumm, N. J. Stapper: Epiphytische Flechten als Umweltgütezeiger. bod-Verlag, 164 S.
  • Die Laubmoosflora des Baltischen Bernsteinwaldes. Weißdorn-Verlag Jena, 101 S.
  • mit N. J. Stapper, I. Franzen-Reuter: Epiphytische Moose als Umweltgütezeiger. Ein illustrierter Bestimmungsschlüssel. Kommission Reinhaltung der Luft im VDI und DIN, Düsseldorf, Schriftenreihe 40, 152 S.
  • Moose – Eine Einführung. Weißdorn-Verlag Jena, 227 S., 266 Farbfotos.
  • W. Frey, mit E. Fischer, W. Lobin: Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of Europe. Harley Books.
  • mit W. Malcolm: The moss family Dicranaceae in New Zealand. An illustrated key. Nelson (Micro Optics Press) 128 pp.
  • mit W. Frey: Moosflora. (1. Aufl. Stuttgart 1983); 4. Aufl. UTB 1250, Ulmer-Verlag Stuttgart.
  • mit J. Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen. bod-Verlag, 673 S.
  • Biologie der Moose. Spektrum Verlag, 375 S.
  • Moose als Bioindikatoren. Quelle & Meyer, 187 S.
  • mit E. Fischer: Führer zu botanischen Exkursionen in der Umgebung von Bonn. Bouvier-Verlag Bonn, 151 S.
  • W. Frey, mit E. Fischer, W. Lobin: Kleine Kryptogamenflora. Bd. IV, 6. Auflage, G. Fischer-Verlag Stuttgart.
  • Campylopodioideae, Paraleucobryoideae in: Flora Neotropica Monographs 54, New York, 238 S.
  • La bryoflore des Vosges et des zones limitrophes. Buchauflagen 1989, 2002, jetzt als Reprint des Textteils in Archive for Bryology 156: 1-138.
  • mit W. Frey, H. Kürschner, M. Menzel: Mosses and Liverworts of Mt. Kinabalu. Kota Kinabalu, 91 S.
  • Afrikanische Campylopus-Arten (= Bryophytorum Bibliotheka 31), 216 S.
  • Conspectus der mittel- und südamerikanischen Campylopus-Arten (Dicranaceae) (= Bryophytorum Bibliotheka 5), Vaduz, 144 S.
  • Herausgeber von J. Hedwig: Species Muscorum on CD.

References

  1. ↑ IPNI.  J.-P.Frahm.
  2. 1 2 Isabelle Franzen-Reuter: Zum Tod von Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Frahm. In: Gefahrstoffe – Reinhaltung der Luft. Bd. 74, Nr. 4, 2014, S. 118, ISSN 0949-8036.
  3. ↑ Frahmia - A Bryological Online Journal.
  4. ↑ Moose reduzieren die Feinstaubbelastung. Pressemitteilung der Universität Bonn, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 2. August 2007.
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