Lichen Recolonization of Trees in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Lichenologist
- Vol. 23 (2) , 181-186
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0024282991000324
Abstract
A recent survey of epiphytic lichens in the Jardin du Luxembourg has shown there to be a marked improvement in the air quality of Paris over the past decade. Recolonization by at least 11 lichen species has occurred during that period. It has taken almost 100 years for epiphytic lichens to re-establish in the Jardin du Luxembourg, where William Nylander in the 1890s was able to amply confirm his far reaching hypothesis, made 30 years earlier, on the direct relationship between lichen survival and air pollution.Keywords
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