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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Main Authors: Abigail Robison, Mikele Baugh, Lucia Muggia, Steven D. Leavitt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-09-01
Series:Conservation
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7159/2/4/37