I'm working with a colleague on impacts of intensification of silviculture on lichens. We have pre-, 2nd, 5th and 10th year post-harvest data from 156 two hectare experimental units. We will be offering co-authorship to those willing to share their trait database(s).
not sure if the big traits database over in the UK covers lichens.
www.try-db.org
one of our new faculty members (unfortunately just a temp at this point) works with lichens so if you need another hand on the project, let me know.
David Wardle (DA) has published on lichen traits (boreal) and you might try Nicole Fenton at UQAT to see if she has started on this (mosses, yes).
Eero Mattila, Jouko Kumpula and Kari Mikkola (Natural Resources Institute Finland) have studied the occurrence of lichens in reindeer herding area in northern Finland. .
Thank you. Let's keep in touch on this one. I spoke to Dr. Azim Mallik at Lakehead University and it sounds like one of his PhD students is starting a database.
Hi Wayne, I'dbe very interested in this. I've been working on how the composition of forest floor vegetation (including lichens) can linked to long-term (centuries to millennia) cycliong of SOC. Using something of a trait-base would be interesting. I also have samples which I will use for CN(P) etc, btu if anything is of interest, let me know. cheers, rob
Hi Robert, For vascular plants the IPCD framework proposed by Pausas and Lavorel seems like a good fit for studying questions related to resistance and resilience of species and communities. I'm currently working on three manuscripts using the IPCD framework to form functional response groups.
cool, I know that paper. I was thinking of the cryptogams, as the relative ratio of lichen and moss seems reasonable at explaining a fair amount of DOC quantity and quality, which is helpful.
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