Materials to the lichen biota of the hill in Folusz near Szubin (NW Poland)

Adamska, Edyta; Adamski, A.

doi:10.12775/eq.2014.014

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“…Despite harsh environmental conditions (extreme irradiation, high temperature variability), the species richness is typically high in these habitats and rare specialists can also be present (Molnár 2003). Investigations on lichens are known from the Netherlands (Ketner-Oostra & Sýkora 2009;Sparrius 2011;Ketner-Oostra et al 2012), Northern Italy (Gheza et al 2015(Gheza et al , 2016, Denmark (Schmidt 1986), Poland (Zielińska 1967Adamska 2010;Adamska & Adamski 2014) and Estonia (Jüriado et al 2016;Tilk et al 2018).…”

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Factors at multiple scales influence the composition of terricolous lichen communities in temperate semi-arid sandy grasslands

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Inland dune ecosystems are rich in terricolous lichen species. However, these communities are sensitive to human activities, both locally and globally. Since terricolous lichens have a dominant role in semi-arid sandy grasslands, it is important to explore the composition of their communities and the environmental factors affecting them. We studied the structure of the terricolous lichen assemblages of calcareous grassland in an inland duneland ecosystem by comparing the lichen communities of arid and humid dune sides on two sites with different disturbance histories. Microcoenological data were collected according to the Braun-Blanquet method. Environmental variables include the cover of bare soil, moss, litter, herb cover and height of herbs. We investigated the relationship of these variables and the presence and absence data of terricolous lichen species to sites and dune side. We found that the site had a significant effect on species richness that might reflect the different types and severity of previous disturbance events at the studied sites. On a smaller, ‘dune’ scale, in general lower herb cover and height and a higher moss cover were characteristic of arid dune sides. Most of the frequent species were negatively affected by higher moss cover. Some lichen species were more abundant (e.g. Cladonia furcata) or found only (e.g. Xanthoparmelia subdiffluens, Gyalolechia fulgens) on arid dune sides, while others preferred (e.g. C. pyxidata) or occurred only on (e.g. Peltigera species, C. rei) humid sides. It was observed that the impact of the dune side on several variables differed between sites. The diverse microhabitat types, microclimate and landscape structure, results in species-rich and valuable terricolous lichen communities forming in inland dune ecosystems.

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