Based on field research in the Murmansk Region past two years, twenty lichen species (Acolium karelicum, Bacidina inundata, Biatora chrysantha, B. efflorescens, Bryoria glabra, Hymenelia rhodopis, Lecanora albellula, L. anopta, cadubriae, Lecidea albohyalina, Lepraria elobata, jackii, Micarea melaena, M. misella, Rhexophiale rhexoblephara, Thelidium submethorium, Verrucaria hydrela, Xylographa ...

Biocrusts are an essential soil surface cover at drylands where ecosystems especially fragile to degradation processes due climatic peculiarities. In the present work, (micro)biological and physicochemical properties indicative of functionality were studied in two different biocrust types dominated by Dipolschistes diacapsis Lepraria isidiata underlying depths (SL1, layer right below biocrusts,...

Three woodlots, one urban, one suburban, and one rural, were studied for cover and frequency of corticolous lichens and bryophytes. Epiphyte cover was measured by fitting aluminum foil over the epiphyte, cutting and weighing the foil. Lichens less than 1 cm in diameter were assumed circular and the diameter measured. Cover and presence were noted only within a cylindrical quadrat 1.3 to 1.6 m h...