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Lichens and Plants in Urban Environment

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This chapter considers alteration in lichens and plants caused by urbanization, an increasingly prominent driving force shaping the Earth’s landscape. The chapter does not presume to cover all the aspects of plants and lichens change in context of urbanization. Its main focus is a short general overview of the main processes taking place in urban lichens and plants on level of organism, community and ecosystem, and of ecological services they provide. Plant species richness and composition, community and ecological processes, growth, anatomical, morphological traits and physiological processes under urbanization stress are discussed. Ecological services of city vegetation: air quality improvement, greenhouse effect reduction, abatement of urban noise, among other, are described. Methodological aspects of air pollution impact assessments with lichens are discussed. A number of case studies fulfilled in cities across the world to assess change of urban lichen communities are reported. The importance of lichens as monitors of temporal and spatial trends in urban biota state under air pollution stress is justified. City planning and management implications are provided.

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  1. Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 20-b Glebovskaya Street, Moscow, 107258, Russia

    Gregory E. Insarov

  2. Department of Biology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    Irina D. Insarova

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  1. Geography and Environmental Studies and The Golan Research Institute, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Dan Malkinson

  2. Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Danny Czamanski

  3. Department of Geography Human Environment, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Itzhak Benenson

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Insarov, G.E., Insarova, I.D. (2013). Lichens and Plants in Urban Environment. In: Malkinson, D., Czamanski, D., Benenson, I. (eds) Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics. Cities and Nature. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40199-2_9

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