Dispersal ecology of the endangered woodland lichen Lobaria pulmonaria in managed hemiboreal forest landscape

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1803-1819

  Jüriado, Inga ^a,b   Liira, Jaan ^a   Csencsics, Daniela ^b   Widmer, Ivo ^b   Adolf, Carole ^b   Kohv, Kaupo ^a,c   Scheidegger, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c Estonian Fond for Nature   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Epiphytic lichen; Genetic dissimilarity; Genetic distance; Managed forest; Microsatellites; Old growth forest; Population genetics; Wooded meadow

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIPHYTE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST PLANT; JUVENILE; LICHEN; MEADOW; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; WOODLAND;

ESTONIA;

LOBARIA PULMONARIA; PULMONARIA;

EID: 79958280931     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0062-8     Document Type: Article

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