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Lichens Of Six Vernal Pools In Acadia National Park, Maine, Usa, Jason Barton, Brett Ciccotelli, Jillian E. Gall, Fred C. Olday, Bruce Connery, Tanner B. Harris, Alan M. Fryday, Nishanta Rajakaruna
Lichens Of Six Vernal Pools In Acadia National Park, Maine, Usa, Jason Barton, Brett Ciccotelli, Jillian E. Gall, Fred C. Olday, Bruce Connery, Tanner B. Harris, Alan M. Fryday, Nishanta Rajakaruna
Nishanta Rajakaruna
Whereas lichen-habitat relations have been well-documented globally, literature on lichens of vernal pools is scant. We surveyed six vernal pools at Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA for their lichen diversity. Sixty-seven species were identified, including seven species that are new reports for Acadia National Park: Fuscidea arboricola, Hypogymnia incurvoides, Lepraria finkii, Phaeographis inusta, Ropalospora viridis, Usnea flammea, and Violella fucata. Five species are considered uncommon or only locally common in New England: Everniastrum catawbiense, Hypogymnia krogiae, Pseudevernia cladonia, Usnea flammea, and Usnea merrillii. This …
Synthesis And Future Directions: What Have Harsh Environments Taught Us About Ecology, Evolution, Conservation, And Restoration?, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Robert S. Boyd, Tanner B. Harris
Synthesis And Future Directions: What Have Harsh Environments Taught Us About Ecology, Evolution, Conservation, And Restoration?, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Robert S. Boyd, Tanner B. Harris
Nishanta Rajakaruna
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Additional Lichen Records And Minerological Data From Metal-Contaminated Sites In Maine, Ian D. Medeiros, Alan M. Fryday, Nishanta Rajakaruna
Additional Lichen Records And Minerological Data From Metal-Contaminated Sites In Maine, Ian D. Medeiros, Alan M. Fryday, Nishanta Rajakaruna
Nishanta Rajakaruna
Geochemistry and mineralogy of rocks play important roles in the occurrence of individual lichen species and assembly of lichen communities. Whereas lichens of metal-enriched settings have been a focus of study for many decades, only a few such lichen inventories exist for North America. We reexamined the lichen biota of Pine Hill, a serpentine outcrop on Little Deer Isle, Maine and Callahan Mine, a copper- and zinc-enriched Superfund site in Brooksville, Maine by conducting additional field surveys and reexamining unidentified taxa from previous collections. To better characterize the substrates upon which the lichens were found, we conducted elemental analyses via …