Lichen carbon gain under tropical conditions: Water relations and CO2 exchange of three Leptogium species of a lower montane rainforest in Panama

Flora

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 172-190

  Lange, Otto L ^a   Büdel, Burkhard ^a,b   Meyer, Angelika ^a   Zellner, Hans ^a   Zotz, Gerhard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Carbon gain; Leptogium; Lichen; Photosynthesis; Rainforest; Water content

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LICHEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER RELATIONS;

PANAMA;

LEPTOGIUM; LEPTOGIUM AZUREUM; LEPTOGIUM CYANESCENS; LEPTOGIUM PHYLLOCARPUM;

EID: 0034175946     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30965-9     Document Type: Article

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