A system to monitor climate change with epilithic lichens

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-298

  Insarov, Gregory E ^a   Semenov, Serguei M ^a   Insarova, Irina D ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biological indicators; Change; Epilithic lichens; Global climate; Israel; Monitoring; Negev desert

Indexed keywords

EPILITHIC LICHENS; TREND DETECTION INDEX (TDI);

BIOMARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLIMATOLOGY;

BIOMONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; LICHEN; MONITORING SYSTEM;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ISRAEL; LICHENS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ROCK; TEMPERATURE;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032921637     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005909427138     Document Type: Article

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