The effects of air pollution on lichen biodiversity (LB) were monitored in Liguria (northwest
Italy). A systematic sampling strategy was adopted in order to avoid the influence of spatial …

This study is part of the work aimed to standardise air quality biomonitoring methods in Italy.
Some practical problems of the application of the lichen biodiversity (LB) method to a coastal …

The results of 2 biomonitoring surveys carried out over a span of 7 years (1996–2003) in the
Province of Ancona (central Italy) using the diversity of epiphytic lichens are reported …

This work provided additional information for a better interpretation of lichen diversity values
in biomonitoring studies of air pollution. The effects of 12 predictive variables were estimated …

In 2000, a standardized sampling protocol was developed by a group of European
researchers to provide a repeatable and objective strategy for mapping lichen diversity as …

Biomonitoring of air pollution, ie monitoring environmental pollution through the use of living
organisms (Nimis & Skert, 1999), may be based either on the tendency of some organism to …

The results of a biomonitoring survey carried out in the town of Siena (central Italy) using the
biodiversity of epiphytic lichens as indicator of air pollution are reported. The general picture …

The influence of environmental variables on epiphytic lichens in Liguria (NW Italy) was
examined using two complementary approaches. Firstly, the variability of lichen vegetation …

Materials and methods The study was carried out in the urban area of Montecatini Terme
and its immediate surroundings. Details about the study area are given by Loppi & Corsini …

The epiphytic lichen vegetation of 20 sites around Thessaloniki (Macedonia, northern
Greece) surveyed in 1987 was sampled again in 1997 to monitor any changes in lichen …