Spatial and temporal changes in the concentration of K, Na, Mg and Ca in epilithic and in decomposing detached thalli of the lichen Ramalina maciformis and its potential role in the cycling of these elements in the Negev Desert

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-97

  Garty, J ^a   Steinberger, Y ^b   Harel, Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

decomposition; electrolyte leakage; element cycling; lichen; Ramalina maciformis Del. Bory

Indexed keywords

RAMALINA; RAMALINA MACIFORMIS;

EID: 0030135163     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-8472(95)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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