Sacred groves are the fairly well-protected system of community-based conservation tree patches on account their association with village gods, and repository many rare threatened elements biodiversity. There are, however, few publications lichens sacred groves. The have long been regarded as sensitive indicators for monitoring environmental state. present study reports one hundred sixteen spec...

Abstract. Belguidoum A, Haichour R, Lograda T, Ramdani M. 2021. Biomonitoring of air pollution by lichen diversity in the urban area Setif, Algeria. Biodiversitas 23: 970-981. The use living organisms quality monitoring has received increasing attention recent years. Lichens, pioneer and colonizing organisms, are directly sensitive to environmental changes. This results a loss vitality or compl...

Diversity of secondary lichen metabolites was studied in epiphytic lichens on six phorophytes—spruce, pine, birch, alder, aspen and poplar the Middle Urals Russia. Atranorin, usnic, fumarprotocetraric acid, zeorin, gyrophoric acid were found 31, 24, 23, 18, 14 species, respectively, 237 taxa collected. Seventy-seven species (i.e., 32% total documented) contained no metabolites. Spectra fruticos...

Johansson, P. 2006. Effects of habitat conditions and disturbance on lichen diversity: studies on lichen communities in nemoral, boreal and grassland ecosystems. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7055-2 This thesis includes five papers from four studies on lichen diversity in its broad sense. The overall objectives were to examine species richness, composition, distribution, an...

Large, architecturally complex lichen symbioses arose only a few times in evolution, increasing thallus size by orders of magnitude over those from which they evolved. The innovations that enabled symbiotic assemblages to acquire and maintain large sizes are unknown. We mapped morphometric data against an eight-locus fungal phylogeny across one of the best-sampled thallus size transition events...

—The Kittlitz’s Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) is a poorly-known species of alcid and a seabird of conservation concern. Nesting murrelets were discovered at Agattu Island in the western Aleutian Islands, and a field study provided new information on nest site selection, chick growth rates and reproductive success. Twelve ground nests were located in upland habitats (441 masl) at inland ...