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Using Lichens on Twigs to Assess Changes in Ambient Atmospheric Conditions

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Monitoring with Lichens — Monitoring Lichens

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This method was first developed in Pembrokeshire West Wales [3, 4] in order to determine the effect of changes in land use on epiphytic lichen communities in regions where native trees are frequent.

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  2. Malloch, A.J.C. (1985) VESPAN: Fortran Programs for Handling and Analysis of vegetation and Species Distribution, University of Lancaster, Lancaster.

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  1. The Natural History Museum Department of Botany, Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    P. A. Wolseley

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  1. Department of Biology, The University, Trieste, Italy

    Pier Luigi Nimis

  2. WSL, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Christoph Scheidegger

  3. Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

    Patricia A. Wolseley

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Wolseley, P.A. (2002). Using Lichens on Twigs to Assess Changes in Ambient Atmospheric Conditions. 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_22

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