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Monitoring Lichens for Conservation: Red Lists and Conservation Action Plans

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Monitoring with Lichens — Monitoring Lichens

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Lichen-forming fungi are mutualistic symbiotic organisms. The mycobiont coexists with one or more algal or cyanobacterial photobionts. Conservation biology of lichens deals, therefore, with more than one organism, although it is the fungal partner, or mycobiont, which is generally the target for conservation. It is also the mycobiont which determines the systematic position of lichens.

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  2. Herbarium, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2B1, Canada

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  3. Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

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Scheidegger, C., Goward, T. (2002). Monitoring Lichens for Conservation: Red Lists and Conservation Action Plans. In: Nimis, P.L., Scheidegger, C., Wolseley, P.A. (eds) Monitoring with Lichens — Monitoring Lichens. NATO Science Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0423-7_12

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