The photobiont determines the pattern of photosynthetic activity within a single lichen thallus containing cyanobacterial and green algal sectors (photosymbiodeme)

Oecologia

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-198

  Green, T G Allan ^a   Schlensog, Mark ^b   Sancho, Leopoldo G ^c   Winkler, J Barbro ^b   Broom, Fraser D ^d   Schroeter, Burkhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; New Zealand; Phycosymbiodeme; Three dimensional; Water relations

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS; WATER RELATIONS;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; UREWERA NATIONAL PARK;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; NOTHOFAGUS; NOTHOFAGUS MENZIESII; PSEUDOCYPHELLARIA; PSEUDOCYPHELLARIA KNIGHTII; PSEUDOCYPHELLARIA LIVIDOFUSCA; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0036938020     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100800     Document Type: Article

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