Surface N-Alkane Variability in Xanthoria Parietina

1 January 1996

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Lichenologist

Vol. 28 (1) , 79-87
https://doi.org/10.1006/lich.1996.0007

Abstract

Surface alkanes were extracted from thalli of populations of Xanthoria parietina growing in two different Piedmont (Italy) valleys: Susa and Vermenagna. The main n-alkanes detected in the Susa Valley were C₂₇, C₂₈, C₂₉ and C₃₁, whereas C₂₅, C₂₇ and C₂₉ were the most abundant in Vermenagna Valley. The results indicate that the n-alkane qualitative composition of X. parietina was affected both by elevation and climatic characteristics typical of the two valleys considered.

Keywords

ALKANES
SUSA
THALLI
ABUNDANT
PIEDMONT
XANTHORIA PARIETINA
VERMENAGNA
VALLEY

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