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Hello, I am an undergraduate student in ecology at Idaho State
University in Pocatello, and I am studying lichens and air pollution
around nearby fertilizer industries. I am writing for assistance from
an ecologist who is working with lichens as biomonitors of air
pollution. I have been searching for literature that addresses the
interaction amongst heavy metal accumulations and other elements that
occur naturally in the lichen tissue such as K,Ca, and P. I have
found two books on the subject titled "Lichens and Air Pollution" and
"Physiological Ecology of Lichens". Yet, these were written in the
70's and 80's, and they do not completely describe what I am
searching for. I have checked in the last decades' issues of" The
Bryologist", and most studies are done to report elements found, but
not to draw conclusions concerning interactions of elements detected.
I would appreciate being directed to a researcher who is doing this
kind of work, or a publication that addresses element interactions
with heavy metals. My internet address is dillkare@lcs.isu.edu
Thank you for your time.   Karen Dillman


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UG DILLMAN KAREN L <DILLKARE@lcs.isu.edu> writes:

> I have
> found two books on the subject titled "Lichens and Air Pollution" and
> "Physiological Ecology of Lichens". Yet, these were written in the
> 70's and 80's, and they do not completely describe what I am
> searching for. I have checked in the last decades' issues of" The
> Bryologist", and most studies are done to report elements found, but
> not to draw conclusions concerning interactions of elements detected.
> I would appreciate being directed to a researcher who is doing this
> kind of work, or a publication that addresses element interactions
> with heavy metals. 

Tom (T.C.) Hutchinson and his students at the University of Toronto
have been doing a lot of work recently on heavy metal uptake by
lichens.  I know he has published at least some of these articles in
the New Phytologist.  Check out the Science Citation Index or
Biological Abstracts--your librarian can show you how to use them. 
Good luck!
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Rick Boyce
Richard.L.Boyce@dartmouth.edu


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Subject: lichens and heavy metals From: UG DILLMAN KAREN L,
DILLKARE@lcs.isu.edu Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 09:13:00 EST In article
<8403FC109B@LCS.ISU.EDU> UG DILLMAN KAREN L, DILLKARE@lcs.isu.edu writes:
>Hello, I am an undergraduate student in ecology at Idaho State
>University
in Pocatello, and I am studying lichens and air pollution >around nearby
fertilizer industries. I am writing for assistance from >an ecologist who
is working with lichens as biomonitors of air >pollution. I have been
searching for literature that addresses the stuff deleted

Hi, Check also the German literature.  There is a book on biomonitoring by
Uwe Arndt.  Lichens are used as regular parts of biomonitoring netowrks
all
over Germany as well as other countries in Europe.  The problem might be
that since the networks were established some time ago, only periodic
reports of results would be published, and most likely in German.  You
might check for reports of institutes such as the Landesanstalt fur
Immissionsschutz in Essen.
JL


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