Blanka Aguero, Data Manager, Duke Herbarium

Please note: Blanka has left the "Duke Herbarium" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

I work as data manager in Duke University Herbarium. I maintain collections and databases of bryophytes, oversee a databasing project of bryophytes, and assist in training undergraduate and graduate students in bryophyte diversity and herbarium management. I'm an active member of Duke Bryophyte Laboratory where I participate on research in bryophyte systematics. I am interested in bryophyte diversity of montane, alpine and wetland ecosystems. I have extensive field experience in temperate and boreal regions of Europe and North America, with focus mainly on mosses and liverworts. Born and raised in the Czech Republic.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Biosci 371A, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 7308
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.biology.duke.edu/bryology/blanka.html

Education:

PhD

Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.

2004

Specialties:

Bryophytes

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Shaw, AJ; Duffy, AM; Aguero, B; Nieto-Lugilde, M; Imwattana, K; Robinson, SC; Schuette, S; Wilkens, RT; Yavitt, J; Weston, DJ; Piatkowski, B; Granath, G, Climate niches structure a regional hybrid zone in Sphagnum (peatmoss, Bryophyta)., American journal of botany (December, 2025), pp. e70143, Wiley [doi]  [abs]
2. Hagge, P; King-Doonan, E; Lutzoni, F; Miadlikowska, J; Aguero, B; Whitby, H; Umbanhowar, C; Colesie, C; Arnold, AE; Yitong, E; Cassar, N, Nitrogen fixation in Arctic lichens and mosses: A survey across circumpolar subzones., The Science of the total environment, vol. 999 (October, 2025), pp. 180264 [doi]  [abs]
3. Little, DP; Aguero, B; Shaw, AJ; Tessler, M, AI for difficult herbarium specimens: identification of peat mosses (subgenus Sphagnum) without dissection., The New phytologist (August, 2025) [doi]  [abs]
4. Jonathan Shaw, A; Nieto-Lugilde, M; Aguero, B; Duffy, AM; Robinson, S; Hassel, K; Flatberg, KI; Ingerpuu, N; Vellak, K; Pérez-Haase, A; Jiroušek, M; Krebs, M; Juselius-Rajamäki, T; Piilo, S; Robroek, B; Lamkowski, P; Granath, G, Genetic structure of the Sphagnum magellanicum (Sphagnaceae) complex in Europe, Bryologist, vol. 128 no. 3 (July, 2025), pp. 474-486 [doi]  [abs]
5. Garfias-Gallegos, D; Pardo-De la Hoz, CJ; Haughland, DL; Magain, N; Aguero, B; Miadlikowska, J; Lutzoni, F, Central metabolism and development are rewired in lichenized cyanobacteria., The ISME journal, vol. 19 no. 1 (January, 2025), pp. wraf166 [doi]  [abs]