Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T13:53:19.706Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Biomass of Arboreal Lichens and its Vertical Distribution in a Boreal Coniferous Forest in Central Finland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Chunjiang Liu ,
Hannu Ilvesniemi  and
Car J. Westman
Chunjiang Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Forest Ecology, POB 24, 00014University of Helsinki, Finland
Hannu Ilvesniemi
Affiliation:
Department of Forest Ecology, POB 24, 00014University of Helsinki, Finland
Car J. Westman
Affiliation:
Department of Forest Ecology, POB 24, 00014University of Helsinki, Finland
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The biomass of lichens and its vertical distribution on trees were investigated in a > 100-year-old boreal forest in central Finland. The lichen biomass on individual trees was 1292–3669 g tree−1 on Picea abies and 742 g tree −1 on Pinus sylvestris. More than half of the biomass occurred on dead branches. The proportion of Hypogymnia physodes appeared to rise with the canopy height while the other lichens (Platismatia glauca, Bryoria spp. and Pseudevernia furfuracea) decreased. Mean total lichen biomass for sampled trees on an aerial basis was 163 gm −2. The standing crop of litter lichen deposited on ground was about9 gm −2.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 32 , Issue 5 , September 2000 , pp. 495 - 504
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 2000

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)