The advantage of growing on moss: Facilitative effects on photosynthetic performance and growth in the cyanobacterial lichen Peltigera rufescens

Oecologia

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 599-607

  Colesie, Claudia ^a   Scheu, Sarah ^a   Green, T G Allan ^b,c   Weber, Bettina ^a   Wirth, Rainer ^a   Büdel, Burkhard ^a  

^a France   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Association; CO 2 exchange; Ecophysiology; Ecosystem functioning; Plant interactions

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FACILITATION; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LICHEN; MICROCLIMATE; MORPHOLOGY; MOSS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROCLIMATE; MOSS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; LICHENS; MICROCLIMATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PELTIGERA RUFESCENS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84862164629     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2224-5     Document Type: Article

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