Various methods have been developed to monitor environmental quality, including
biomonitoring using lichen. In this paper, a total of 143 previous studies from the last decade …

Epiphytic (tree inhabiting) lichens, well-known biomonitors of atmospheric pollution, have a
great potential for being used in environmental forensics. Monitoring changes in biodiversity …

Ecological studies require quality data to describe the nature of ecological processes and to
advance understanding of ecosystem change. Increasing access to big data has magnified …

Question What are the extent and the possible causes of imperfect detection in lichens?
Because lichens are sessile and lack seasonality, they should be easier to survey than …

Arboreal lichens have a wide range of tolerance to habitat disturbance. As a result, they
have been used globally as bioindicators of environmental change, particularly for …

The Lichens GO program is a French citizen science initiative based on the European
guidelines that aims to evaluate the lichen diversity for urban air quality monitoring. In this …

Environmental changes are predicted to have severe and rapid impacts on polar and alpine
regions. At high latitudes/altitudes, cryptogams such as bryophytes and lichens are of great …

Lichens are major components of high altitude/latitude ecosystems. However, accurately
characterizing their biodiversity is challenging because these regions and habitats are often …

Although lichen diversity values are broadly used as bioindicators, mainly for air pollution,
lichen communities can be substantially influenced by other ecological factors, such as tree …

Biological monitoring by means of lichens as accumulators of trace elements is a very
suitable tool to assess and monitor air pollution and it has been adopted in several surveys …