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Air Pollution and Lichens in Hong Kong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

S. L. Thrower
S. L. Thrower
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
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Abstract

A simple scale using tropical lichen species has been used by secondary school students to assess air pollution zones in Hong Kong. The distribution of lichens was found to be related to the sites of power stations, a desalting plant, and heavily industrialised areas. As in temperate climates, both complexity of growth form and numbers of species increase with distance from the sources of air pollution.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , October 1980 , pp. 305 - 311
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1980

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