Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2009, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (05): 578-586.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-3466.2009.05.008

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Corticolous Lichen Community Structure in a Forest Ecosystem in the Southern Mountains of Urumqi

Anwar.Tumur, Reyim.Mamut, Abdulla.Abbas*   

  1. College of Life Sciences and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
  • Received:2008-09-26 Revised:2009-02-25 Online:2009-09-01 Published:2009-09-01
  • Contact: Abdulla.Abbas

Abstract: To understand corticolous lichen species composition and its community structure characteristics, principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis methods were used to study a corticolous lichen community in the forest ecosystem of the southern mountains of Urumqi. Thirty-nine corticolous lichen species, belonging to 5 orders, 13 families and 26 genera, were found. Multivariate analysis and characteristics of habitat revealed that the corticolous lichen communities could be classified into three types: (1) Lecanora hageni (Ach.) Ach. + Physcia stellaris (L.) Nyl. + L. saligna (Schrad.) Zahlbr.; (2) Physcia aipolia (Humb.) Furm. + Ph. dimidiata (Arn.) Nyl. + Cladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm.; and (3) Xanthoria fallax (Hepp) Arnold. + X. elegans (Link.) Th. Fr. Community 3 had highest species diversity (1.509), then community 2 (1.109), then community 1 (1.088). Altitude and tree types were the two important environmental factors influencing the structural patterns of corticolous lichen communities in this forest ecosystem.