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The litterfall material collected since the 1950’s as part of research into the seed crop of forest trees has proved to be extremely valuable in the monitoring of epiphytic lichens. The litter falling from the trees has been collected on 50×50 m or 100×100 m plots using special litter traps (7–15 traps/plot). After drying, the litter has been divided into the following fractions: seeds, cones, male flowers, leaves, needles, bark, branches, insects and other litter. Epiphytic lichens have subsequently been separated from the bark, branch and other litter fractions.
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Poikolainen, J., Kuusinen, M. (2000). Abundance of Epiphytic Lichens in Litterfall During 1967–1994. In: Mälkönen, E. (eds) Forest Condition in a Changing Environment. Forestry Sciences, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9373-1_19
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