Fruticose Lichen Communities at the Edge: Distribution and Diversity in a Desert Sky Island on the Colorado Plateau
Subalpine habitats in sky islands in the Southwestern USA are currently facing large-scale transformations. Lichens have widely been used as bioindicators of environmental change. On the Colorado Plateau, fruticose lichens occur in patchy, disconnected populations, including unique lichen-draped con...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-09-01
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Series: | Conservation |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7159/2/4/37 |