Lawrey, JD 1992: Natural and randomly-assembled lichen communities compared using the species area curve. - The Bryologist95(2): 137-141. [RLL List # 148 / Rec.# 11208] Keywords: COMMUNITY ECOLOGY/ POLLUTION/ SPECIES-AREA CURVES
Abstract: 3 fig. [Involves computer manipulation of data from a previously published study to evaluate the species-area curve. "These results suggest that simplification results in alterations of community composition that make it more random. They also suggest that undisturbed natural saxicolous lichen communities are assemblages regulated not by random processes, but rather by interactions that limit the number of species that can co-occur in the habitat."]