High-light damage in air-dry thalli of the old forest lichen Lobaria pulmonaria-interactions of irradiance, exposure duration and high temperature |
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Authors: | Gauslaa Y; Solhaug K |
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Institution: | Department of Biology and Nature Conservation, The Agricultural University of Norway, PO Box 5014, N-1432 Ås, Norway; Corresponding author; Fax: +47 6494 8502; E-mail: yngvar.guaslaa@ibn.nih.no |
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Abstract: | High-light damage in air-dry thalli of Lobaria
pulmonaria were measured in the laboratory as reductions in
maximal PSII efficiency (Fv/Fm)
after a 48 h recovery in a hydrated state at low light to account for
permanent damage. Thalli treated with the lowest light dose (90 mol photons
m-2) recovered normal
Fv/Fm-values with increasing irradiances (400-700 nm)
up to 1000 mol photons
m-2 s-1. Doubling this dose
lowered the threshold level for damage from 1000 to 320 mol photons m-2
s-1, and reduced
Fv/Fm at 1000 mol
photons m-2 s-1 by more than
50%. A second doubling of the dose to 360 mol photons
m-2 caused damage at 200 mol photons
m-2 s-1, and a nearly
complete cessation of PSII efficiency occurred at 1000 mol photons
m-2 s-1. No reciprocity of
irradiance and duration of illumination for PSII function was found. The
measured time-dependent decrease in
Fv/Fm was remarkably similar for
the naturally coupled, but artificially separated, light and temperature
factors. Therefore, the damage of high light on desiccated L.
pulmonaria seemed to be an additive effect of high irradiance
and high temperatures. Air-dry thalli were highly heat susceptible, being
affected already at temperatures around 40C.
Logging operations in forests are likely to raise the solar radiation at
remaining lichen sites to destructive levels.Keywords:
Lichens, high-light damage, heat stress, poikilohydric
organisms, reciprocity.
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