Lichens and higher plants on stone: a review

M Lisci, M Monte, E Pacini - International biodeterioration & biodegradation, 2003 - Elsevier
This review article deals with the site and colonization mode of plants and lichens on the
wall of historical buildings, freezes and statues. Higher plants and lichen colonization is …

Applying metric and nonmetric multidimensional scaling to ecological studies: some new results

NC Kenkel, L Orlóci - Ecology, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
Metric (eigenanalysis) and nonmetric multidimensional scaling strategies for ecological
ordination were compared. The result, based on simulated coenoplane data showing …

[PDF][PDF] Vanishing tuscan landscapes

W Vos, A Stortelder - PUDOC Publ., Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1992 - edepot.wur.nl
PREFACE 1 he socio-economic conditions in European regions with less favourable
physical conditions and, until recently, widespread traditional farming and forestry systems …

Partitioning an elevation gradient of vegetation from southeastern Ethiopia by probabilistic methods

Z Woldu, E Feoli, L Nigatu - Numerical syntaxonomy, 1989 - Springer
Vegetation and environment have been analyzed along an altitudinal gradient in Harena
Forest, Bale Mountains National Park, southeastern Ethiopia. Vegetation data include …

Twenty years of numerical syntaxonomy

L Mucina, E van der Maarel - Numerical syntaxonomy, 1989 - Springer
The development of numerical syntaxonomy during its first 20 yr is reviewed. The use of
methods of numerical classification and ordination is the dominating feature of the …

Ficopomatus'Reefs' in the Po River Delta (Northern Adriatic): Their Constructional Dynamics, Biology, and Influences on the Brackish‐water Biota

CN Bianchi, C Morri - Marine Ecology, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The serpulid polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) builds huge aggregates in
the “Sacca del Canarin”, a brackish inlet of the Po River Delta (Italy). Distribution, structure …

Effects of atmospheric pollution on lichen biodiversity (LB) in a Mediterranean region (Liguria, northwest Italy)

P Giordani, G Brunialti, D Alleteo - Environmental Pollution, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …

Lichens as bioindicators of air pollution by SO2 in the Veneto Region

PL Nimis, G Lazzarin, D Gasparo - 1991 - openstarts.units.it
This paper presents the results of a study on air pollution by SO2 in the Veneto Region
(North Eastern Italy), using the" Calibrated Lichen lndex of Air Quality"(IAP) proposed by …

Relationship between field-layer vegetation and canopy openings in a Carpathian subalpine spruce forest

J Holeksa - Plant Ecology, 2003 - Springer
The field-layer structure relative to the distribution of canopy gaps was analysed in a
subalpine spruce forest in the Babia Góra massif–one of the highest in the Polish West …

A study of habitat conditions of the macrophytic vegetation in selected river systems in Western Lower Saxony (Federal Republic of Germany)

G Wiegleb - Aquatic Botany, 1984 - Elsevier
In connection with a phytosociological survey of running water macrophytes in Lower
Saxony, ecological investigations were carried out in selected river systems. Within these …