Increasing fire severity causes lichen diversity losses: Research Brief
/Though often inconspicuous, lichens play critical ecological roles in many terrestrial ecosystems. This paper discusses how lichens respond to fire severity and how fast lichens recolonize after fire.
Miller, Jesse E. D., Heather Root, and Hugh Safford. 2018. Altered fire regimes cause long-term lichen diversity losses. Global Change Biology, in press.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14393