Seasonal and spatial variation in carbon based secondary compounds in green algal and cyanobacterial members of the epiphytic lichen genus Lobaria

Phytochemistry

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 91-98

  Gauslaa, Yngvar ^a   Bidussi, Massimo ^a   Solhaug, Knut Asbjørn ^a   Asplund, Johan ^a   Larsson, Per ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aspect; Canopy lichens; Growth rate; Lichen compounds; Lobaria pulmonaria; Lobaria scrobiculata; Seasonal variation; Stictic acid; Usnic acid

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; LOBARIA; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; LOBARIA SCROBICULATA; NOSTOC; PULMONARIA;

BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; CARBON; STICTIC ACID; USNIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASPECT; BIOMASS; CANOPY LICHENS; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LICHEN (ORGANISM); LICHEN COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; LOBARIA SCROBICULATA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREE;

ASPECT; CANOPY LICHENS; GROWTH RATE; LICHEN COMPOUNDS; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; LOBARIA SCROBICULATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STICTIC ACID; USNIC ACID;

BENZOFURANS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; LIGHT; SEASONS; TREES;

EID: 84885185488     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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