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Lichen Monitoring and Climate Change

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Monitoring with Lichens — Monitoring Lichens

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Anthropogenic increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases is leading to warming of the Earth’s surface and other climatic changes. Current projections issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are based on a number of global climate models and scenarios described in the IPCC Second Assessment Report (SAR) volume [22]. We summarise briefly resulting projections of climate change as follows.

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  1. Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, 20b Glebovskaya Str., Moscow, 107258, Russia

    G. Insarov

  2. Botanisches Institut, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098, Kiel, Germany

    B. Schroeter

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  1. Department of Biology, The University, Trieste, Italy

    Pier Luigi Nimis

  2. WSL, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Christoph Scheidegger

  3. Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

    Patricia A. Wolseley

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Insarov, G., Schroeter, B. (2002). Lichen Monitoring and Climate Change. In: Nimis, P.L., Scheidegger, C., Wolseley, P.A. (eds) Monitoring with Lichens — Monitoring Lichens. NATO Science Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0423-7_13

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