SWAN Inventory Lichen: Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
McCune B. SWAN Inventory Lichen: Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. 2012-2017. National Park Service
Lichens are an important component of biological diversity in high latitude ecosystems and are good subjects for monitoring due to their sensitivity to environmental drivers. They are the primary winter food source for caribou, as well as a source of nesting material and forage for birds and invertebrates. In spite of their ecological significance, information regarding lichen species richness, distribution, and abundance is lacking for most of the parks in Alaska. In the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN), a combination of emerging management issues (e.g., resource development, increasing contaminant loads) that could alter species composition in lichen communities, changing environmental conditions that could lead to increases or decreases in lichen cover, and a general lack of information regarding the occurrence and richness of lichens underscores the need for baseline inventories. Lichens were inventoried in Lake Clark, Katmai, and Kenai Fjords.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- McCune, Bruce
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- KATM , KEFJ , LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- inventory, lichen
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Terrestrial Complex
Program
Products
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- Lichen Inventory
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- A synopsis and new key to the species of Rinodina (Ach.) Gray (Physciaceae, lichenized Ascomycetes) presently recognized in North America
- Biodiversity and ecology of lichens of Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks and Preserves, Alaska
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- Two new species in the Umbilicaria torrefacta group from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest of North America
- Varicellaria lactea new to the U.S.A. from Alaska
- Pseudocyphellaria crocata (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) in the Americas is revealed to be thirteen species, and none of them is P. crocata
- Physconia labrata, a new species from western North America and Asia
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- Acarospora toensbergii (Acarosporaceae), a new species from Alaska, U.S.A.
- Ochrolechia brodoi, a new lichen for North America from Alaska, with updates to the key of corticolous North American species
- Disentangling the Peltigera polydactylon Species Complex by Recognizing Two New Taxa, P. polydactylon subsp. udeghe and P. seneca
- A revision of the Leptogium saturninum group in North America
- Rhizocarpon quinonum, a new anthraquinone-containing species from the Alaska Peninsula
- Jamesiella scotica new to North America from USA, Alaska
- Ameliella - A Bryicolous Lichen Genus Rediscovered in North America after 50 Years
- Parvoplaca nigroblastidiata, a new corticolous lichen (Teloschistaceae) in Europe, Turkey and Alaska
- Lichen Functional Trait Variation Along an East-West Climatic Gradient in Oregon and Among Habitats in Katmai National Park, Alaska
- A new corticolous species of Rinodina (Physciaceae) and two interesting range extensions for species collected from Katmai National Park, Alaska
- Inventory of the mosses, liverworts, and lichens of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska: 2013 Progress Report
- Nephroma orvoi in Western North America
- Resolving the Sticta fuliginosa Morphodeme (Lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigeraceae) in Northwestern North America
- Lichen Inventory
- Kenai Fjords NP Lichens
- Lichen Inventory
- Hypogymnia pulverata (Parmeliaceae) and Collema leptaleum (Collemataceae), two macrolichens new to Alaska