Effects of reduced nitrogen compounds on epiphytic lichen communities in Mediterranean Italy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 630-637

  Frati, Luisa ^a   Brunialti, Giorgio ^a   Loppi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Biodiversity; Indicator species; Lichens; Mediterranean area; Pine trees; Vegetation changes

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; AIR POLLUTION; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIODIVERSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; RIVER POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

INDICATOR SPECIES; LICHENS; MEDITERRANEAN AREA; PINE TREES; VEGETATION CHANGES;

PH;

NITROGEN;

ABUNDANCE; BARK; BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; LICHEN; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PH; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EUTROPHICATION; HYPERPHYSCIA ADGLUTINATA; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ITALY; LICHENS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NITROGEN; PINUS; PLANT BARK; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACIDS; AIR POLLUTION; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; LICHENS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PH; PINUS; PLANTS; RESISTIVITY; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HYPERPHYSCIA ADGLUTINATA; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

EID: 56249085220     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.07.063     Document Type: Article

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