Browsing by Author "Pintado, Ana"

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Functional ecology of the biological soil crust in semiarid SE Spain: sun and shade populations of Diploschistes diacapsis (Ach.) Lumbsch

Pintado, Ana; Sancho, Leopoldo G.; Green, T.G. Allan; Blanquer, José Manuel; Lázaro, Roberto (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

The Tabernas badlands in semiarid south-east Spain is one of the driest regions in Europe with a mean annual precipitation of c. 240 mm. The landscape is deeply dissected, with canyons, ramblas and sparsely vegetated eroded ...
Lichen fungi have low cyanobiont selectivity in maritime Antarctica

Wirtz, Nora; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Green, T.G. Allan; Türk, Roman; Pintado, Ana; Sancho, Leopoldo G.; Schroeter, Burkhard (Wiley, 2010)

The cyanobionts of lichens and free-living Nostoc strains from Livingston Island (maritime Antarctica) were examined to determine both the cyanobiont specificity of lichens and the spatial distribution of Nostoc strains ...
Slowest to fastest: Extreme range in lichen growth rates supports their use as an indicator of climate change in Antarctica

Sancho, Leopoldo G.; Green, T.G. Allan; Pintado, Ana (Elsevier, 2007)

Global temperature rise is suggested to be greater and more rapid in polar regions. There has been a clear temperature rise of 0.056 °C y⁻¹ in the Antarctic Peninsula and this has led to changes in higher plant extent and ...