Phorophyte specificity and microenvironmental preferences of corticolous lichens in five phorophyte species from premontane forest of Finca Zíngara, Cali, Colombia);Especificidad de forófito y preferencias microambientales de los líquenes cortícolas en cinco forófitos del bosque premontano de finca Zíngara, Cali, Colombia

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 843-856

  Medina, Edier Soto ^a   Lücking, Robert ^b   Rojas, Ana Bolaños ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Corticolous lichens; Indicator species analysis; Microenvironmental factors; Non metric multidimensional scaling (NMS); Phorophyte specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; LICHEN (ORGANISM); PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

COLOMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; TREES;

ARTHONIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADONIA; CLADONIA CERATOPHYLLA; FUNGI; MERIANIA;

EID: 84866617888     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: 22152075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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