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 The TICOLICHEN Costa Rican Lichen Biodiversity Inventory includes three major field trips organized for our international parties, covering 13 national parks in six of the ten conservation areas in Costa Rica. In addition, our local counterparts at INBio and the University of Costa Rica have been undertaking many more collection trips, partly to areas with difficult access for larger groups, including about ten further national parks and the remaining four conservation areas. For more information about Costa Ricas Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservación (SINAC), visit their website. The field work of this project thus virtually covers all of Costa Rica and its major life zones, such as lowland and montane rainforest, upper montane cloud and elfin forest, paramo, lowland to mid-elevation evergreen moist forest, lowland to mid-elevation semi-deciduous and deciduous dry forest, and coastal rainforest and mangroves. In addition to duplicate- and diversification-oriented collection of specimens, we also recorded basic ecological data for each specimen, such as substrate type, phorophyte species (if known), and exposure (in five categories from fully shaded to semi-exposed to fully exposed).
 All together, we collected more than 25,000 specimens (including duplicates), with major representative sets now housed at INBio (INB), the University of Costa Rica (USJ), the National Herbarium of Costa Rica (CR), The Field Museum (F), the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B), the New York Botanical Garden (NY), the herbarium of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (GZU), and the Adviesbureau voor Bryologie en Lichenologie (ABL).
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