Oak forest exploitation and black-locust invasion caused severe shifts in epiphytic lichen communities in Northern Italy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5506-5512

  Nascimbene, Juri ^a   Marini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alien species; Cyanolichens; Forest management; Rare species; Trentepohlioid lichens

Indexed keywords

ALIEN SPECIES; CYANOLICHENS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RARE SPECIES; TRENTEPOHLIOID LICHENS;

AIR QUALITY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; LAND USE;

CONSERVATION;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPIPHYTE; EXPLOITATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LICHEN; LOCAL EXTINCTION; LOCUST; RARE SPECIES;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; ITALY; LANDSCAPE; LICHENS; LOCUST; OAK; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; ITALY; LICHENS; QUERCUS; ROBINIA; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

AIR QUALITY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; LICHENS;

ITALY;

EID: 77956883515     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.056     Document Type: Article

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