Long-term impacts of simulated climatic change on secondary metabolism, thallus structure and nitrogen fixation activity in two cyanolichens from the Arctic

New Phytologist

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 361-367

  Bjerke, Jarle W ^a   Zielke, Matthias ^a,b   Solheim, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Depsides; Nitrogen fixation; Peltigera; Soralia; The Arctic; UV B; Warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LICHEN; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ARCTIC;

INSECTA; PELTIGERA;

EID: 0042349414     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00812.x     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bachereau F, Asta J. 1997. Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation at high altitude on the physiology and the biochemistry of a terricolous lichen (Cetraria islandica (L.) Ach.). Symbiosis 23: 197-217.
2. BeGora MD, Fahselt D. 2001. Usnic acid and atranorin concentrations in lichens in relation to bands of UV irradiance. Bryologist 104: 134-140.
3. Benedict JB. 1990. Experiments on lichen growth. I. Seasonal patterns and environmental controls. Arctic and Alpine Research 22: 244-254.
4. Bjerke JW, Lerfall K, Elvebakk A. 2002. Effects of ultraviolet radiation and PAR on the content of usnic and divaricatic acids in two arctic-alpine lichens. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 1: 678-685.
5. Björn LO. 2002. Effects of UV-B radiation on terrestrial organisms and ecosystems with special reference to the Arctic. In: Hessen DO, ed. UV radiation and arctic ecosystems. Ecological studies 153. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, 93-121.
6. Buffoni Hall RS, Bornman JF, Björn LO. 2002. UV-induced changes in pigment content and light penetration in the fruticose lichen Cladonia arbuscula ssp. mitis. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 66: 13-20.
7. Cattle H, Crossley J. 1995. Modelling Arctic climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 352: 201-213.
8. Crittenden PD. 1998. Nutrient exchange in an Antarctic macrolichen during summer snowfall-snow melt even ts. New Phytologist 139: 697-707.
9. Elvebakk A. 1997. Tundra diversity and ecological characteristics of Svalbard. In: Wielgolaski FE, ed. Polar and alpine tundra. Ecosystems of the World, 3. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 347-359.
10. Gehrke C. 1999. Impacts of enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation on mosses in subarctic heath ecosystems. Ecology 80: 1844-1851.
11. Goffinet B, Hastings RI. 1995. Two new sorediate taxa of Peltigera. Lichenologist 27: 43-58.
12. Green TGA, Lange OL. 1991. Ecophysiological adaptations of the lichen genera Pseudocyphellaria and Sticta to south temperate rainforests. Lichenologist 23: 267-282.
13. Gwynn-Jones D, Johanson U, Phoenix GK, Gehrke C, Callaghan TV, Björn LO, Sonesson M, Lee JA. 1999. UV-B impacts and interactions with other co-occurring variables of environmental change: an arctic perspective. In: Rozema J, ed. Stratospheric ozone depletion; the effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on terrestrial ecosystems. Leiden, The Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers, 187-201.
14. Harvell DC, Mitchell CE, Ward JR, Altizer S, Dobson AP, Ostfeld RS, Samuel MD. 2002. Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biota. Science 296: 2158-2162.
15. Heide-Jørgensen HS, Johnsen I. 1998. Ecosystem vulnerability to climate change in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Miljonyt 33: 1-266.
16. Holmes MG, Keiller DR. 2002. Effects of pubescence and waxes on the reflectance of leaves in the ultraviolet and photosynthetic wavebands: a comparison of a range of species. Plant, Cell & Environment 25: 85-93.
17. Hovenden MJ. 2001. Seasonal trends in nitrogen status of Antarctic lichens. Annals of Botany 86: 717-721.
18. Huiskes AHL, Lud D, Moerdijk-Poortvliet TCW. 2001. Field research on the effects of UV-B filters on terrestrial Antarctic vegetation. Plant Ecology 154: 77-86.
19. Huneck S. 1999. The significance of lichens and their metabolites. Naturwissenschaften 86: 559-570.
20. Huneck S, Yoshimura I. 1996. Identification of lichen substances. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag.
21. Johanson U, Gehrke C, Björn LO, Callaghan TV, Sonesson M. 1995. The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on subarctic heath ecosystems. Ambio 24: 106-111.
22. Kumar SKC, Müller K. 1999. Lichen metabolites. 2. Antiproliferative and cytotoxic activity of gyrophoric, usnic, and diffractaic acid on human keratinocyte growth. Journal of Natural Products 62: 821-823.
23. Longton RE. 1997. The role of bryophytes and lichens in polar ecosystems. In: Woodin SJ, Marquiss M, eds. Ecology of arctic environments. Special publication no. 13 of the British Ecological Society. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science, 69-96.
24. Lud D, Huiskes AHL, Moerdijk TCW, Rozema J. 2001. The effects of altered levels of UV-B radiation on an Antarctic grass and lichen. Plant Ecology 154: 89-99.
25. Marion GM, Henry GHR, Freckman DW, Johnstone J, Jones G, Jones MH, Lèvesque E, Molau U, Molgard P, Parsons AN, Svoboda J, Virginia RA. 1997. Open-top design for manipulating field temperature in high latitude. Global Change Biology 3: 20-32.
26. McKenzie RL, Björn LO, Bais A, Ilyasd M. 2003. Changes in biologically active ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth's surface. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 2: 5-15.
27. Müller K. 2001. Pharmaceutically relevant metabolites from lichens. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 56: 9-16.
28. Nash TH III, Olafsen AG. 1995. Climate change and the ecophysiological response of arctic lichens. Lichenologist 27: 559-565.
29. Paul ND. 2000. Stratospheric ozone depletion, UV-B radiation and crop disease. Environmental Pollution 108: 343-355.
30. Rikkinen J. 1995. What's behind the pretty colours? A study on the photobiology of lichens. Bryobrothera 4: 1-239.
31. Searles PS, Flint SD, Caldwell MM. 2001. A meta-analysis of plant field studies simulating stratospheric ozone depletion. Oecologia 127: 1-10.
32. Snelgar WP, Green TGA. 1981. Ecologically linked variation in morphology and physiology in Pseudocyphellaria dissimilis. New Phytologist 87: 403-411.
33. Solhaug KA, Gauslaa Y, Nybakken L, Bilger W. 2003. UV-induction of sun-screening pigments in lichens. New Phytologist 158: 91-100.
34. Solheim B, Johanson U, Callaghan TV, Lee JA, Gwynn-Jones D, Björn LO. 2002. The nitrogen fixation potential of arctic cryptogram [sic.] species is influenced by enhanced UV-B radiation. Oecologia 133: 90-93.
35. 2 on lichens at different latitudes. Lichenologist 27: 547-557.
36. Sonesson M, Callaghan TV, Carlsson BÅ. 1996. Effects of enhanced ultraviolet radiation and carbon dioxide concentration on the moss Hylocomium splendens. Global Change Biology 2: 67-73.
37. 2 fixation using acetylene reduction technique. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 58: 2071-2078.
38. Stocker-Wörgötter E, Türk R. 1990. Thallus formation of the cyanobacterial lichen Peltigera didactyla from soredia under laboratory conditions. Botanica Acta 103: 315-321.
39. Swanson A, Fahselt D. 1997. Effects of ultraviolet on polyphenolics of Umbilicaria americana. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 284-289.
40. Vitikainen O. 1994. Taxonomic revision of Peltigera (lichenized Ascomycotina) in Europe. Acta Botanica Fennica 152: 1-96.
41. Weller G. 2000. The weather and climate of the Arctic. In: Nutall M, Callaghan TV, eds. The Arctic: environment, people, policy. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers, 143-160.
42. Zielke M, Ekker AS, Olsen RA, Spjelkavik S, Solheim B. 2002. The influence of abiotic factors on biological nitrogen fixation in different types of vegetation in the High Arctic, Svalbard. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 34: 293-299.