POST-FIRE COLONIZATION OF A MEDITERRANEAN FOREST STAND BY EPIPHYTIC LICHENS |
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| Institution: | 1. Medical Imaging Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia;2. Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA;3. Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;4. Internal Medicine Department, Southeast Alabama Medical Center, AL, USA;5. Eastern Ghouta medical point, Syria;1. Results for Development Institute, 1111 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA |
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| Abstract: | The post-fire colonization of a Quercus ilex forest by epiphytic lichens has been studied in Catalonia (NE Spain), eleven years after a fire. Specific richness and lichen biomass have been studied separately on Quercus ilex , Erica arborea , Rosmarinus officinalis . and Cistus albidus , to reveal possible differences among phorophytes in facilitating lichen establishment. Shrubs play an important role in colonization by common species whereas the stools of Quercus ilex offer a suitable substratum for rarer species. Cistus albidus , with the highest lichen diversity and 98·2% of the total biomass of macrolichens, is the most suitable phorophyte for lichen establishment. |
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