[HTML][HTML] Green spaces are not all the same for the provision of air purification and climate regulation services: The case of urban parks

J Vieira, P Matos, T Mexia, P Silva, N Lopes… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The growing human population concentrated in urban areas lead to the increase of road
traffic and artificial areas, consequently enhancing air pollution and urban heat island …

[PDF][PDF] Mycosphere notes 169–224

KD Hyde, N Chaiwan, C Norphanphoun… - …, 2018 - researchgate.net
This is the fourth in a series of Mycosphere notes wherein we provide notes on various
fungal genera. In this set of notes, we introduce Phaeoseptaceae as a new family …

Glacial-relict symptoms in the Western Carpathian flora

D Dítě, M Hájek, I Svitková, A Košuthová, R Šoltés… - Folia Geobotanica, 2018 - Springer
Glacial relicts have been regionally more common in glacial than in recent times. A rigorous
assessment of which species are indeed glacial relicts is extremely difficult because direct …

Changes in epiphytic lichen diversity are associated with air particulate matter levels: The case study of urban areas in Chile

Z Varela, G López-Sánchez, M Yáñez, C Pérez… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chileans living in urban areas are exposed to several air pollutants, namely to a mean
annual concentration of atmospheric PM 2.5 (> 40 µg m− 3 year− 1) that exceeds two times …

Functional traits of epiphytic lichens respond to alkaline dust pollution

P Degtjarenko, P Matos, L Marmor, C Branquinho… - Fungal Ecology, 2018 - Elsevier
Dust pollution has a harmful impact on the environment and human health. Lichen trait-
based metrics are increasingly used to monitor effects of air pollution, but studies using this …

Pioneer lichen communities of the Teteriv River basin (Ukraine)

NV Kapets, OO Barsukov, DS Vynokurov… - Acta Botanica …, 2018 - akjournals.com
The results of phytosociological studies of pioneer lichen communities of siliceous outcrops
carried out in 2014–2016 in Teteriv River basin (Ukraine) are provided. The dataset of 302 …

Noteworthy lichenized and lichenicolous fungi of open-canopy oak stands in east-central Europe

P Czarnota, H Mayrhofer, A Bobiec - Herzogia, 2018 - BioOne
Czarnota, P., Mayrhofer, h. & Bobiec, a. 2018. Noteworthy lichenized and lichenicolous fungi
of open-canopy oak stands in east-central Europe.-Herzogia 31: 172–189. Eighteen species …

Exploring patterns of commonness and rarity in lichens: a case study from Italy (Southern Europe)

PL Nimis, S Martellos, D Spitale, J Nascimbene - The Lichenologist, 2018 - cambridge.org
This paper, based on data from the latest checklist of Italy, analyzes the distribution patterns
of rare and common lichen species within biogeographically homogeneous versus …

Ozone and desiccation tolerance in chlorolichens are intimately connected: a case study based on two species with different ecology

S Bertuzzi, E Pellegrini, F Candotto Carniel… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Tropospheric ozone (O 3) causes severe damage to many vascular plants but not to lichens.
It was recently suggested that this may be due to their high levels of natural defences …

The effect of land use on taxonomical and functional diversity of lichens in an agricultural landscape

D Zarabska-Bożejewicz, K Kujawa - Fungal Ecology, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this work was to determine the effect of land use on lichen richness and
their functional groups in agricultural land. A significant overall effect of land use on the …