Overview
- Provides a thoroughly comprehensive study on terricolous lichens in India, a relatively unexplored region in lichenological studies
- Includes a wide variety of visual content, including photographs and graphs
- In depth analysis of various patterns and drivers of Terricolous lichen diversity in Indian habitats
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Terricolous lichens, a habitat specialist group of lichens play a vital role in maintenance and ecological stability of soil crusts with reference to their physical stability, hydrology and growth of soil microflora. Terricolous lichens in Indian lichenological studies haven’t been taken up as a functional group.
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Terricolous Lichens in India, Volume 1: Diversity Patterns and Distribution Ecology is the first ever publication dealing with soil lichens of India. Divided into five chapters, this volume discusses the lichenological researches in India with reference to terricolous lichens, the altitudinal distribution patterns of terricolous lichens, comparative assessment of distribution with global patterns, and the photobiont diversity and influence of novel molecular clades of photobiont in determining ecological preferences of soil lichens in India.
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Written by experts in the field and supplemented with numerous photographs, Terricolous Lichens in India, Volume 1: Diversity Patterns and Distribution Ecology is a comprehensive resource that addresses the major drivers of terricolous lichens distribution in India.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Himanshu Rai
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, National Botanical Research Institute, Lichenology Laboratory, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Dalip K. Upreti
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, National Botanical Research Institute, Lichenology Laboratory, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terricolous Lichens in India
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: Diversity Patterns and Distribution Ecology
Editors: Himanshu Rai, Dalip K. Upreti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8736-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8735-7
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4126-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8736-4
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 98
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Genetics and Genomics