Effects of a Coal-Fired Power Plant on the Rock Lichen Rhizoplaca melanophthalma: Chlorophyll Degradation and Electrolyte Leakage
Belnap J and Harper KT. 1990. Effects of a Coal-Fired Power Plant on the Rock Lichen Rhizoplaca melanophthalma: Chlorophyll Degradation and Electrolyte Leakage. The Bryologist. 93(3):309-312
The study evaluates effects of the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station on the umbilicate desert lichen Rhizoplaca melanophthalma. Patterns of lichen damage indicated by chlorophyll degradation were similar to those indicated by electrolyte leakage, and were more intense nearer the plant. It is suggested that effluents from the power plant combine with local weather factors to produce the observed levels of damage. One table, 2 figures, bibliography
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Belnap, Jayne; Harper, Kimball
- Units
- ARD , GLCA
- Keywords
- Acid Rain, Air Pollution, AIRBIB, Bryophyte, Chlorophyll, Coal, electrolyte, IAR, Impacts, Lichen (Mycophycophyta), Navajo Generating Station (AZ), Plant Studies, Pollution, Power Plant, rhizoplaca melanophthalma, Rhizoplaca melanophthalma (lichen), rock lichen, Soil