Usnic acid controls the acidity tolerance of lichens

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-122

  Hauck, Markus ^a   Jürgens, Sascha René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acidic precipitation; Air pollution; Dibenzofurans; pH; Sulphur dioxide

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC PRECIPITATION; AIR POLLUTION; DIBENZOFURAN; DIBENZOFURANS; PH; PH RANGE; SULPHUR DIOXIDE; USNIC ACID;

CHLOROPHYLL; DIBENZOFURAN; SULFUR OXIDE; USNIC ACID;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COLONIZATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LICHEN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SULFUR DIOXIDE; TOLERANCE;

ACID PRECIPITATION; ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; AIR POLLUTION; ANION TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUORESCENCE; FOREST; GERMANY; LICHEN; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PKA; PROTON TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZOFURANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LICHENS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 50449107358     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.12.033     Document Type: Article

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