Part-time Scientific Staff, STRI and Professor and Curator of Bryophytes and Lichens, Department of Botany, Universidad de Panamá
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
salazarn@tivoli.si.edu
Research Interests
Biosystematics, Morphology and Evolution of tropical Bryophytes. Distribution and biology of tropical lichens.
Current Research Projects
Monographic revision of Neotropical species of the moss Octoblepharum. Developmental morphology and biology of Neotropical species of the thalloid hepatic Cyathodium. Biosistematics of the moss Leucophanes. Floristics and biogeographical relations of the bryophyte flora of Panama.
Recent Publications
Salazar Allen, Noris. 2001. Cyathodium bischlerianum, sp. nov. (Marchantiales) a New Species from the Neotropics. The Bryologist 104(1): 141-145.
Churchill, S. P. & Salazar Allen. 2001. Mosses. Pp. 240-571. In S. R. Gradstein, S. P. Churchill & N. Salazar Allen 2001. Guide to the Bryophytes of Tropical America. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 86.
Gradstein, S. R. , S. P. Churchill & N. Salazar Allen. 2001. Guide to the Bryophytes of Tropical America. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 86. 577 pp.
Korpelainen, H. & N. Salazar Allen. 1999. Genetic variation in three species of epiphytic Octoblepharum (Leucobryaceae). Nova Hedwigia 68(3-4): 281-290.
Stotler, R., N. Salazar Allen, s. R. Gradstein, W. McGuinness, A. Whitmore & C. Chung. 1998. A checklist of the hepatics and anthocerotes of Panama. Tropical Bryology 15: 167-195.
Salazar Allen, N. & C. Chung. 1997. Primera aproximación al catálogo de briófitos del Parque Nacional de Coiba (Panamá). In S. Castroviejo & M. Velayos (eds.), Flora y Fauna del Parque Nacional de Coiba (Panamá). Inventario Preliminar. AECI. Madrid, Spain.
Salazar Allen, N., S. R. Gradstein & S. P. Churchill. 1996. Bryophytes as non-woody biodiversity indicators: A guide to the bryophytes of tropical America. A report. Annales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Autón. México. Ser. Bot. 67(1): 59-65.
Salazar Allen, N. 1994. Octoblephaum. In B. Allen (ed.), Moss FLora of Central America. Part 1. Sphagnaceae-Calymperaceae. Monographs of the Missouri Botanical Garden 49: 182-189. St. Louis, MO. USA.
Salazar Allen, N. 1994. Leucophanaceae. In B. Allen (ed.), Moss FLora of Central America. Part 1. Sphagnaceae-Calymperaceae. Monographs of the Missouri Botanical Garden 49: 190-191. St. Louis, MO. USA.
Marino, P.C. & N. Salazar Allen. 1993. Tropical epiphyllous hepatic communities growing on two species of shrub in Barro Coloraldo Island, Panama: the influence of light and microsite. Lindbergia 17: 91-95.
S. Rob Gradstein & N. Salazar Allen. 1992 Bryophyte diversity along an altitudinal gradient in Darién National Park, Panama. Tropical Bryology 5:61-71.
Salazar Allen, N. 1993. Taxonomic results of the BRYOTROP expedition to Zaire and Rwanda. 16. Leucophanaceae. Tropical Bryology 8: 149-152.
Salazar Allen, N. 1992. Notas para la revisión de las especies de Octoblepharum del Neotrópico. Tropical Bryology 6: 171-179.