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Monitoring Lichen as Indicators of Atmospheric Quality

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Bioindicators are living organisms that react to environmental pollution with their life functions. Lichens are reviewed for their potential to reflect air pollution. This chapter highlights the usefulness of lichens as bioindicators of air pollution and recent advances in usage of lichens in the biomonitoring studies. The attention is focused on lichens biological performance at physiological and biochemical levels, the accumulation of substances and on community level. Laboratory approaches related assessment of lichen reactions along with results from field studies point out the main potential characteristics of lichens as indications of air pollution. Discussed data on the lichen studies indicated that analysis of some physiological parameters has given clear picture about air quality of site. Recently, more studies analyse changes at biochemical level that lichens gives more reasonable clarification of induced changes in lichens by pollutants. Review on lichen monitoring contributes to our understanding of change in environmental conditions caused by air pollution.

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