Boucher, VL/ Nash, TH", III 1990: Growth patterns in Ramalina menziesii in California: coastal vs. inland populations. - The Bryologist93(3): 295-302. [RLL List # 141 / Rec.# 2178] Keywords: CALIFORNIA/ RAMALINA/ GROWTH PATTERNS/ BRANCHING/ ECOLOGY/ TRANSPLANTS
Abstract: 1 table. 9 figures. ["We used a nondestructive sampling technique to estimate seasonal and annual linear growth of the inland form transplanted within an inland site and to a coastal site. Growth at the inland site was concentrated in the fall and winter months when precipitation occurred; growth at the coastal site was nearly constant through the first year of the study. Some genetic differences appeared to exist between morphological types, but their responses to the environment were plastic."]