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Lichen Recolonization of Trees in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

M. R. D. Seaward  and
M. A. Letrouit-Galinou
M. R. D. Seaward
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK.
M. A. Letrouit-Galinou
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Cryptogamie, Universite Paris VI, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 181 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1991

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