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Vitality and growth of the threatened lichen Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm. in response to logging and implications for its conservation in mediterranean oak forests

Luisa FratiPaolo GiordaniRenato BenesperiSonia RaveraElisabetta BianchiGiorgio BrunialtiChiara ValleseJuri NascimbeneZuzana FačkovcováLuca Di NuzzoLuca Paoli

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0106 biological sciencesForest managementBiodiversity conservation010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesGrowth ratesPulmonariaEpiphytic macrolichenEpiphytic macrolichensLobaria pulmonariabiologyGrowth rateForest managementLoggingQuercus cerrisForestryForestrylcsh:QK900-989biology.organism_classificationBiodiversity conservation; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Epiphytic macrolichens; Forest management; Growth rates; Indicator speciesIndicator speciesIndicator speciesThreatened specieslcsh:Plant ecologyEpiphyteChlorophyll fluorescence010606 plant biology & botany

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Forest logging can be detrimental for non-vascular epiphytes, determining the loss of key components for ecosystem functioning. Legal logging in a Mediterranean mixed oak forest (Tuscany, Central Italy) in 2016 heavily impacted sensitive non-vascular epiphytes, including a large population of the threatened forest lichen Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm. This event offered the background for this experiment, where the potential effects of logging in oak forests are simulated by means of L. pulmonaria micro-transplants (thallus fragments &lt

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2020-09-16
10.3390/f11090995http://hdl.handle.net/10447/454040