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Ida Haerida

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I was born in Bogor, Indonesia, in a green environment and lots of plants, therefore, from childhood, I have been interested in forests and plants.

The first time I saw the leaf structure of a small leaf of Lejeunea under a microscope shown to me by the late Willem Meijer, when he visited our herbarium around the year 2000 was amazing, a truly unexpected thing to view. This was probably the first time I fell in love with liverworts. Willem Meijer taught me the technique of making preparations to be observed with a microscope. He taught me many things and so began my journey to appreciate liverworts.

I obtained my Botany degree in 2000, and my Master’s degree in Botany from the IPB Graduate School in Bogor (2009). I works as a researcher at the Herbarium Bogoriense, especially in Systematics of Liverworts. In this herbarium I am also the curator of the bryophyte collections and in particular the liverworts.

In 2005, during training to identify the species of bryophytes and lichens held at Biotrop, I met Prof. Benito Tan and Prof. Gradstein. They were both teachers at the training. I am increasingly interested in bryophytes, both moss, and liverworts, but more interested in liverworts, possibly because there are no liverwort experts in our herbarium. This has increased my interest in this group more and more.

Apart from these experts, I also learned a lot from Prof. Tomio Yamaguchi from Hiroshima University on how to collect bryophytes in the field, how to process them, etc. Based on this fieldwork experience I gained a lot of knowledge about the very important function of bryophytes in the forest.

My research focuses on the biodiversity of Bryophytes in Indonesia as many parts of the islands are still unexplored thoroughly and this study will cover my interest in Phytogeography. I want to know why one species of liverwort can exist in a very far location even across continents.

I was born in Bogor in a green environment and lots of plants, therefore, from childhood, I have been interested in forests and plants.

Please contact me at this address: Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor Km. 46 Cibinong, Bogor, West Java, INDONESIA. My email address is ihaerida@gmail.com Ida Haerida – Herbarium Bogoriense. Bahasa Indonesia