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A Color Guidebook To Common Rocky Mountain Lichens, Larry L. St. Clair

Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum

This guidebook provides information about common lichens from the northern Rocky Mountains south into the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and the Sky Island Mountains of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Lichens as symbiotic systems
• Morphology
• Reproduction
• Physiology and growth
• Secondary chemistry
• Ecology

Lichens as Biomonitors of Air Quality

• Overview
• Lichen sensitivity to air pollutants
• Methods of evaluating air pollution impact on lichens

Lichen Systematics

• Classification of lichens
• Essential tools for identifying lichens
• Collection and curation of lichen specimens
• Dichotomous keys to common Rocky Mountain lichens

Common Rocky Mountain Lichens (Color photographs, descriptive information, …