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Ecological strategies of lichens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

R. W. Rogers
R. W. Rogers
Affiliation:
Botany Department, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia.
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Abstract

Survival strategies of 34 species of lichens from a range of substrata, climates and growth forms were examined using the triangular ordination procedure of Grime. Triangular ordination is apparently an appropriate technique to apply to lichens, all available data falling within a triangle except for two foliicolous species which are probably partial leaf parasites. Statistically significant relationships between survival strategy and growth form, mode of asexual reproduction, substratum preference, family affiliation, and diversity of secondary chemical biosynthetic pathways have been demonstrated.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 149 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1990

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