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Effect of Land-Use on Terricolous Lichens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

O. L. Gilbert
Affiliation:
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN. The substance of this paper was given as the Presidential Address at the winter and Annual General Meeting of the British Lichen Society on 7 January 1978.

Abstract

The limestone plateau of Derbyshire is intensively farmed but supports terricolous lichens associated with unimproved grazing, derelict lead mining ground and modern fluorspar working. The assemblages identified include a number of relict species now very rare in central England. Reworking mine waste for fluorspar can result in the development of communities containing particularly interesting lichens. Land-use is now the chief determinant of terricolous lichen communities in the area studied.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1980

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