Knops, JMH/ Nash, TH, III/ Boucher, VL/ Schlesinger, WH 1991: Mineral cycling and epiphytic lichens: implications at the ecoystem level. - Lichenologist23(3): 309-321. [RLL List # / Rec.# 10255] Keywords: EPIPHYTIC/ LITTER FALL/ MINERAL CYCLING
Abstract: 2 fig. 4 tab. [Epiphytic lichens are believed to be important in capturing nutrients from wet deposition, occult precipitation, sedimentation, impaction and gaseous uptake. "Most nutrients captured by these processes represent new nutrient inputs that would otherwise not be intercepted by the ecosystem."]