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The Composition of Some Calcicolous Lichen Communities in the Burren, Western Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

P. M. McCarthy
P. M. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University College, Galway, Ireland
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Abstract

The lichen vegetation of a limestone pavement in the Burren region of western Ireland is described. Species are distributed in relation to gradients of moisture, nutrient-availability and insolation; these in turn may be related to the range of geomorphological micro-features associated with karst. The majority of the 136 stands are dominated by endolithic and foliose cyanophilic lichens. Epilithic, non-cyanophilic crusts grow best on surfaces subjected to occasional bird-manuring. A successional sequence from bare rock through endolithic communities to ones dominated by epilithic, noncyanophilic species does not occur in the Burren.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , October 1983 , pp. 231 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1983

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