@article{Leppik_Jüriado_2008, title={Factors important for epiphytic lichen communities in wooded meadows of Estonia}, volume={44}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/FCE/article/view/13710}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The epiphytic lichen communities in open and overgrown wooded meadows in Estonia were examined. From 29 </span><span>study stands, 179 taxa of lichens, lichenicolous and allied fungi were identified, 41 of them are nationally rare, red-listed or </span><span>protected. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMS) was performed to examine the main gradients in species composi</span><span>tion and to relate these gradients to environmental variables. The response of lichen species richness to the influence of the </span><span>environmental variables was tested using a general linear mixed model (GLMM). We revealed that overgrowing of wooded </span><span>meadows caused significant changes in lichen communities on trees: richness of lichen species decreased and the composition </span><span>of species changed. Photophilous lichen communities with many species of macrolichens in open wooded meadows were replaced with associations of more shade-tolerant microlichen species. The composition of epiphytic lichen communities </span><span>were also influenced by the tree species composition, diameter of trees and the geographical location of the stand. </span></p></div></div></div>}, journal={Folia Cryptogamica Estonica}, author={Leppik, Ede and Jüriado, Inga}, year={2008}, month={Sep.}, pages={75–87} }