Macrolichen colonization on 120–140 year old Tsuga heterophylla in wet temperate rainforests of central-interior British Columbia: A comparison of lichen response to even-aged versus old-growth stand structures

Lichenologist

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 235-247

  Radies, David N ^a   Coxson, Darwyn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVERNULARIA HULTENII; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; HYGROPHILA; HYPOGYMNIA; LOBARIA; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; NEPHROMA; NEPHROMA HELVETICUM; PARMELIA; PARMELIA HYGROPHILA; PLATISMATIA NORVEGICA; PSEUDOCYPHELLARIA; PSEUDOCYPHELLARIA ANOMALA; PULMONARIA; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA; USNEA;

EID: 3543145534     PISSN: 00242829     EISSN: 10961135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0024282904014227     Document Type: Article

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