Often as part of environmental impact studies and, above all, to obtain authorisations in
accordance with prescriptions from the Ministry for the Environment (Italy), surveys and …

Lichens have value as bioindicators of environmental pollution, climate change, and
ecological continuity. Extensive work has been undertaken in temperate areas, but in only …

An assessment of air quality in the Grenoble area was made using the index of atmospheric
purity (IAP). The survey area was divided into 198 units (0.7× 1 km), in which 345 average …

The major objective of the present study was to identify the relationship of physiologial
parameters of the photosynthetic system with the elemental content of the lichen Ramalina …

The symbiosis between algae and fungi enables lichens to colonise various apparently
hostile places, like high mountains and deserts. However, the sensitive balance between the …

In the 1990s, a sampling network for the biomonitoring of forests using epiphytic lichen
diversity was established in the eastern Iberian Peninsula. This area registered air pollution …

Global biodiversity in lichens is discussed with respect to: areas of biodiversity, lichen
biomass, food chains, nutrient cycling, carbon sinks, biomonitoring, climate change …

Lichens are considered to be among the most sensitive organisms for several types of
pollutants. In this work, we analyzed a dataset of 286 epiphytic lichen species observed on …

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 …

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 …