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Maritime habitats are of considerable importance for lichens. Seashore habitats cover a range of rocky to non-rocky substrata, principally dunes, coastal heath, saltmarsh, fence posts and other man-made substrata, trees and scrub. Fletcher [14] reviewed the subject extensively. More recently briefer articles have appeared by Pentecost [22] and Gilbert [15]. Rocky seashores embrace many communities, from those subject to regular inundation by tidal seawater, called marine or littoral, to supralittoral that are subject to wind-borne salt spray, and terrestrial, where seawater influence is small but still influential. Fletcher [9, 10] described these communities, integrating them with the descriptive system of Lewis [20] for rocky shore biota. Keys for identification and the habitat preferences of British seashore lichens were described by Fletcher [11, 12].
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Fletcher, A., Crump, R. (2002). Monitoring Maritime Habitats. In: Nimis, P.L., Scheidegger, C., Wolseley, P.A. (eds) Monitoring with Lichens — Monitoring Lichens. NATO Science Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0423-7_17
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