Boucher V.L. & Nash III T.H.
(1990):
The Role of the Fruticose Lichen Ramalina menziesii in the Annual Turnover of Biomass and Macronutrients in a Blue Oak Woodland,
Botanical Gazette,
151(1): 114-118
The pendulous, fruticose lichen Ramalina menziesii Tayl. is a conspicuous canopy component of the deciduous blue oak Quercus douglasii H. & A. woodland of central coastal California. With destructive sampling techniques the standing biomass of R. menziesii and other epiphtyic lichens was determined to be 515 g per tree or 706 kg/ha. Ramalina menziesii represented an average of 94% of total epiphytic lichens by weight. Monthly litterfall, collected in traps, was used to estimate canopy component biomass …
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