ReviewMicroorganisms2021
Functional Traits in Lichen Ecology: A Review of Challenge and Opportunity.
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- Factors shaping the lichen photobiome and mycobiome in a tropical lichen community.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Chemo-Diversity and Secondary Metabolite Content in Corticolous Crustose Lichens (Fam. Arthoniaceae, Graphidaceae, Pyrenulaceae) from Remnants of Colombian Tropical Dry Forests.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Symbiotic Versatility in Action: Trebouxia Diversity Expands the Niche of the Lichen Xanthoria parietina.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- New occurrence data of bryophytes and lichens from São Jorge Island (Azores, Macaronesia).Biodiversity data journal · 2026Article
- Environmental and evolutionary factors jointly shape life-history trait diversity of terrestrial vertebrates across China.Zoological research · 2025Article
- Bedrock-Dependent Effects of Climate Change on Terricolous Lichens Along Elevational Gradients in the Alps.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A geospatial dataset of lichen key attributes in the Earth's three poles.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Overcoming challenges to access ecological function: a marine soft-bottom perspective.Royal Society open science · 2024Review
- Distribution Types of Lichens in Hungary That Indicate Changing Environmental Conditions.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Multiple drivers of large-scale lichen decline in boreal forest canopies.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Covered by a blanket of lichens: how mat-forming lichens affect microclimate and ecological processes. A commentary on: 'Lichens buffer tundra microclimate more than the expanding shrub Betula nana'.Annals of botany · 2021Article
- Thallus hydrophobicity: A low-cost method for understanding lichen ecophysiological responses to environmental changes.Applications in plant sciencesArticle
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Abstract
Community ecology has experienced a major transition, from a focus on patterns in taxonomic composition, to revealing the processes underlying community assembly through the analysis of species functional traits. The power of the functional trait approach is its generality, predictive capacity such as with respect to environmental change, and, through linkage of response and effect traits, the synthesis of community assembly with ecosystem function and services. Lichens are a potentially rich source of information about how traits govern community structure and function, thereby creating opportunity to better integrate lichens into 'mainstream' ecological studies, while lichen ecology and conservation can also benefit from using the trait approach as an investigative tool. This paper brings together a range of author perspectives to review the use of traits in lichenology, particularly with respect to European ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Arctic-Alpine. It emphasizes the types of traits that lichenologists have used in their studies, both response and effect, the bundling of traits towards the evolution of life-history strategies, and the critical importance of scale (both spatial and temporal) in functional trait ecology.
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